Chum Sounry, spokesman for the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, told reporters on Tuesday that his government did not receive any notice yet from the US government regarding visa sanction for Cambodian people travelling to the US.
Mr. Sunry's statement came after President Donald Trump plans to issue a visa sanction concerning entry into the US for four countries which refuse to accept their citizens deported from the US. According to CNN, those four countries are Cambodia, Eritrea, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
CNN added that usually, those deportees were convicted and/or jailed under the US laws for committing crime or illegally staying in the US.
Concerning this issue, Phay Siphan, spokesman for the Council of Ministers, said his government acknowledges that those deportees had committed crime or violated the US laws. Normally, they were on trial and convicted by the US court. And after their jail time, they were deported to their country where they were born. Nevertheless, the deportation is an act of «inhumanity» for countries which granted Human Rights as their core value.
"It is «inhuman» because the deportation leads to the separation between wife and husband, and/or between parents and children," said the spokesman.
He also said that it is only the US laws that allows the deportation, the laws in the European countries forbid such act of inhumanity.
According to the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, as of 2017, 544 Cambodian people were deported from the US. Among them, 26 people passed away.
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