Posted on 07/09/2005 7:16:09 AM PDT by pabianice
A Vietnamese immigrant is facing deportation after punching a high-ranking Vietnamese official visiting Washington late last month. Tuan Phuoc Le, 34, of Atlanta, punched in the face Nguyen Quoc Huy, vice chairman of the Prime Minister's Office for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, during a protest at the Willard InterContinental Hotel on June 21, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the District.
Mr. Le said Mr. Huy "was a communist" and "he killed my U.S. Marine father in Vietnam," court records show.
Ernestine Fobbs, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said legal immigrants can face deportation if they commit a serious crime. "When you become a permanent resident, you swear you will adhere to regulations here in the U.S. and ... that you will be a lawful permanent resident," Miss Fobbs said. "If they commit a crime, since they're not U.S. citizens, they are subject to removal from the United States." Most immigrants who become permanent residents are eligible for that status on the basis of a close relationship to a U.S. citizen, job skills needed by a U.S. employer or humanitarian concerns.
Mr. Le likely would be oppressed and imprisoned if he were sent back to the communist country, human rights advocates say. "Dissidents are harassed, isolated and in some cases imprisoned," said Minky Worden, media director for Human Rights Watch. "Critics of any kind don't really fare very well in Vietnam." Mr. Le was a member of a group called My Voice, My Country that protested Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai's visit to Washington last month, court records show. The group staged a large demonstration, replete with waving flags and blaring bullhorns.
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This type of idiocy has to be stopped.
I'm sure Amnesty International will step up to the plate to demand we give this bereaved freedom fighter appropriate santuary.
/extreme sarcasm
Why is it that Mexicans can stay here no matter what they do, but this poor guy...?
Agreed. Mr. Le would,at the minimum, be "reeducated" in the communist dogma. More likely he would be executed.
Grant him asylum.
Exactly! All this guy did was punch the creep. The Mexicans et al. murder people and we can't even talk about putting them on death row. WTFO!
At least Human Rights Watch did.
You beat me to it. Amazing, isn't it, the lack of reasoning that goes on among "those in charge?"
Well, he did decide to come to the US legally. Maybe if he was an illegal this wouldn't have happened. That is apparently the case for most illegals.
Seriously speaking coming to the US is only a problem if someone wants to do it in a kosher manner. That's when someone has to jump through hoops. However try coming in illegally and it is almost as if one is a VIP. I wish I could put 'sarcasm' but I honestly cannot.
What can we do to help Mr. Le?
you dont need to be a US citizen to be in the military.
He should request deportation to Mexico.
And what about the communist who killed the Marine?
He's treated as a hero........doom on polidiots who pander to our enemies, present and past.
But if he will be murdered by Vietnam upon his return...
doesnt that make Vietnam a bad place?...a dictatorship..
If so why are we sucking up to them now?
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