On Aug 6, 5:50 am, Pheng Kim Ving <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear kangaroo, > > In the 1st post of this discussion, In Camdisc, signed Savun, > complains that Obama and the Democrats protect the criminals (I think > he means the South Americans) who crossed the border illegally but not > the Cambodian criminals who came to the US legally as a child as young > as 2 years old and later on committed crimes. He considers crossing > the border illegally as also a crime. See, the Americans have mercy or > compassion for those South American criminals, but not for those > Cambodian criminals. >
That's wrong. If you find that that is the case, please provide us with some concrete evidence to prove it. However, I believe that US Government would do anything to remove illegal aliens and criminal aliens out of the country. They don't care if they are Cambodians or whatever. Remember! There are alot of Cambodians who come to live in America illegally as many of those illegal immigrants crossing mexico border. Eventhough, Cambodian illegal aliens are small in number. They are all illegal aliens. Many people today saying that Americans have no compassion when it comes to those Cambodians who came to America when they were two years old and committed crimes during their life time in America. We cannot use compassion to keep someone here when they can be deported. As soon as we start doing that, we are going to think about those illegal aliens who have participated in our economy progress. They have not done anything against the laws. Yet, they have become a piece of the economic machinery today. Why can't we have compassionate for them too? > Bill Clinton visited Vietnam once as the president of the US. George W > Bush visited Vietnam once as the president of the US. Hillary Clinton > just last month visited Vietnam as the secretary of state (foreign > minister) of the US. However no US persident or federal secretary has > ever visited Cambodia. I feel puzzled and sad about this affair. > My friend, Vietnam and Cambodia cannot be compared. Cambodia is still seeking for their own identity. They are still searching for what they want to be. Vietnam is a communist country. They have built in for a very long time. They won the war with that ideology. Cambodia is not Vietnam. > The law is the law. But it has exceptions and even loopholes. A judge > who has compassion for a criminal for whatever reason, or just a > willingness to give the criminal a second chance, can find and utilize > those exceptions and/or loopholes at his/her discretion to not deport > the criminal (just put in jail is enough). > A judge can make or brake it. However, there are appeals in the system. If a judge starts to use compassion for his decision, he would vulnerable to be ousted from the bench because a judge cannot discriminate against anyone. If he has a compassion for a man who was deported back to Cambodia, he also should have the same compassion to those criminals who have been deported back to Mexico. > The Americans have no compassion for the Cambodian criminals and no > willingness to give them a second chance. > You are probably wrong on this one. > As for Cambodian criminals blaming their crimes on the Khmer Rouge, a > couple years ago I read a story happening in the US (either on the > internet or in a magazine, I forget) in which the parents of Cambodian > teenagers who dropped school and committed crimes blamed their > children's crimes on their victimization by the Khmer Rouge. Their > blame couldn't be substantiated, as those teenagers were born after > the Khmer Rouge regime collapsed, some were even born in the US. What > made me even more embarassed was that the director of the community > agency that assisted those Cambodian families was a Korean man who > declared that it was ridiculous to blame the failures and > criminalities of those teenagers on the Khmer Rouge regime, an entity > long gone. And he seemed to ridicule those parents. > Now, we come to a reality. We talk about parenting. It was not the Khmer Rouge regime who created victimization to become criminals in this country. It is the parenting of those Cambodians who lead their children to where it is today. This applies to any other society, not just Cambodians. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
