The daughter of a woman murdered by a man from Laos who is among those controversially deported from the US to South Sudan has spoken out about her family’s pain but also to decry the lack of rights afforded to those who were expelled to countries other than their own.

Birte Pfleger lives in Los Angeles and was a history student at Cal State University in Long Beach when her parents came to visit her from their native Germany in 1994 and ended up shot by Thongxay Nilakout during a robbery while on a sightseeing trip. Pfleger’s mother, Gisela, was killed and her father, Klaus, wounded.

Nilakout, now 48, is Laotian and was among eight convicted criminals from countries including Mexico, Cuba, Vietnam and Myanmar who were deported to the conflict-torn African country, amid uproar over Donald Trump’s extreme immigration policies.

In an interview with the Guardian, Pfleger said: “It’s been 31 years living with the irreparable pain and permanent grief, so, on the one hand, I wanted him gone. On the other hand, I’m a historian and I have taught constitutional history. He was denied due process and that’s a constitutional problem.”

  • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    In case you missed it, he was convicted for the murder. He didn’t have due process for the deportation.

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      10 days ago

      It still does not matter as we should not be shipping off criminals willy nilly to other countries without due process. I mean we should not be doing it at all without talking with the country they do have citizenship in and certainly not sending them to some random country.

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        9 days ago

        Agreed, I was just pointing out that the woman in the article got “truth about the situation” a long time ago.

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      10 days ago

      The real question is how the fuck he wasn’t legally deported ages ago. Convicted murderer is a slam dunk case, why they gotta do shady shit?

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        Why the fuck are we deporting everyone in the first place?

        He went to prison, and now that he’s served his time it’s time to make as hard as possible to survive? Just infinite extra punishment because of where he was born?