Vietnamese Refugee Deported After Release From Prison
Vietnamese Refugee Deported After Release From Prison Immediately upon his release, Tien Pham was transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and then deported. Tien Pham was recently deported to Vietnam, a country that he fled as a young teenager after growing up during the aftermath of the Vietnam war. By 1996, his family had made it to California as refugees, but Pham struggled to adapt. In his low-income neighborhood in San Jose, he got wrapped up in local street gangs. Pham was arrested in 2000 at 17 years old and sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was granted parole la...