“Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeminh shores, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
[ Emma Lazarus: Inscription on The Statue of Liberty ]
This post is the 6th in a series to describe to YOU the effects of ICE thugs on ordinary people. Away from the Renee Good and Alex Pretti MURDER videos, much other abuse is bveing done to ordinary people. Effects often invisible – but the trauma inflicted on people, neighborhoods, communities, cities will NOT end when ICE thugs & Trump DICTATORSHIP cease to DELIBERATELY cause chaos and fear.
These posts are a WARNING – what is happening throughout Minnesota can easily happen in YOUR state if “our” 13-year old president & Rasputins around him decide they ‘NEED’ to do it.
This is the story of one woman, a child refugee, now deported: “One Minnesota woman’s deportation story”. [ Ka Vang; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/11/26 ]. Excerpts below:
9] “The deportation system is like brain fog: paperwork no one explains, flights no one sees, lives erased quietly enough to avoid scrutiny. It assumes the public will stop paying attention once someone disappears..”
3] “I feel betrayed byAmerica,’ she told me. Though she never became a citizen, she was a lawful permanent resident with the right to work and reside in the U.S.”
6]. “She described a deportation process that was confusing and deeply dehumanizing. “I wasn’t sure of my rights because no one clearly explained them to me,’ she told me. She was shackled at her wrists and ankles in detention centers and while being transported. Her journey took her from the U.S. to Georgia, then to South Korea, and finally to Laos. Along the way she traveled with others being deported to India and other parts of Asia.”
***. “Foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources, and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.” [ Platform plank of the National Union {Republican} Party, 1864 ]
1]. “She grew up here and lived most her life here. her family is here. And yet, last year, she was deported to Laos….a country she barely knows.”
2] “I am telling her story because Minnesotans deserve to understand what deportation actually does to a human life..”
4] “Asian Americans are often missing from immigration debates, squeezed between simplistic narratives of “good immigrants” and “criminals.” Yet, since 2002, more than 17,000 southeast Asians have received final orders of removal..”
5] “Many arrived as refugee children fleeing war and genocide. They built lives here, paid taxes here, raised families here. Decades later, they were marked for deportation over old convictions – often nonviolent offenses tied to poverty, trauma and youth.”
7] “When she landed in Laos, she was told she needed a local sponsor to leave the detention center…She had no one in Laos to help her.”
8] “She spent a month in a hotel, then moved closer to the area where her ancestors once lived – not because her family is there, but because it feels faintly familiar. Her entire immediate family remains in the U.S.. She is lonely. She is afraid. Trust comes slowly….She survives now on money sent from family in the U.S. when they can manage it.”
*** “In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.”
[ Senator J. William Fulbright ]
With Justice For All 