I have a friend, who is Vietnamese and being deported to our home country after an agreement between US and Vietnam last January 22nd. My friend was convicted a crime for having ***BANNED WORD*** with a sixteen-year-old girl in 2002. At that time, he signed "Voluntary Departure" which said that he is ready for leaving the country any time his country would take him back and was set free by the immigration court. After that time, he has been trying to live well and contributing for society. He paid taxes and has not been convicted for any crime since that period of time. He had tried to start all over again, be a good resident and he did.
It's been five years already and now, an agreement signed between US and Vietnam last January has taken away all of his confidence in continueing his life. He is now facing deportation because a mistake in the past. My friend, and some of Vietnamese, has left Vietnam for a very long time and like some people said "They don't have any connection there anymore". They don't have any relatives, they don't know where to live, don't even know what to do to make their own livings and would be treated unfairly by the government.
I know immigrants, espeacially Vietnamese people, have caused many troubles for the government in recent years. They are law-breakers but not all of them are bad people. It's all because of differences in languages, poverty, and not being well-awared of the immigration law. Some of them such as my friend has been regretting for what they have done for years and trying to correct their faults and be better residents.
Please help us to find a way out of this problem. You can save a person's life. Thanks for your time.