Cambodian-American Mistakenly Deported After Marijuana Conviction Returns to California Via SFO

A Cambodian-born man who had come to the U.S. with his parents at the age of 1, and who had been a U.S. citizen since he was 12 years old but was nonetheless targeted for deportation, returned home to California on Wednesday via San Francisco.

Sok Loeun, 35, self-deported five years ago after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents threatened to deport him, but with the help of a lawyer, he was able to clear up a clerical error about his citizenship status that dated back over two decades. And the story, in which he himself wasn’t aware that he was a legal citizen, highlights the vagaries of the U.S. immigration system and the complexities that many immigrants aren’t even aware of,�as the Chronicle reports.

Follow the story at: https://sfist.com/2020/01/30/cambodian-american-mistakenly-deported-after-marijuana-conviction-returns-to-california-via-sfo/