Her fight began quietly . . . . Ultimately, it led her to testify in Congress and write a widely shared letter to then-President Donald Trump before ending in recent months where it had begun: in an Arlington County courtroom.”
KJ
7 pills, a 20-year fight: A teen’s mistake ends in deportation threats
Tough immigration reforms in 1996 had consequences for noncitizen criminal offenders well known to immigration scholars. Rachel Chason for the Washington Post offers an example of the reform’s harsh consequences. Lundy Khoy. “[b]orn in a Thai refugee camp after her parents fled genocide in Cambodia . . . . came to the United States as a toddler . . . .”
Khoy’s story has a happy ending with her conviction vacated and the threat of removal ended. Still, a single drug offense turned her life upside down for decades:
“[A] teenage mistake thrust her into the crosshairs of federal laws . . . leading her to spend half her life looking over her shoulder, striving to prove her worth in the only country she’d ever known.
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