Should immigrants who commit crimes be deported?
Hong Ung grew up and went to school in western Sydney - part of one of the many thousands of families displaced by the Khmer Rouge, but after calling Australia home for 22 years, he was deported.
Unlike the recent high profile cases of deportation from Australia to New Zealand, getting ID in Cambodia in order to get a job and rent a house is difficult, and in some cases near impossible.
He was convicted of demanding money from a shop when he was 19. Now in his mid forties, hes ill with cancer and sleeping rough on the streets of Cambodia.
Hong is one of an increasing number of Cambodians being sent there after serving their time for crime, which campaigners say is creating a new generation of orphans. Some of the deportees, like 31-year-old Khan Hin from California, have never even been to Cambodia, but the US is also turning tough on criminals who arent citizens.
Cambodia accepts the refugees and reportedly receives thousands of dollars from the US for them, but Datelines repeated efforts to confirm this were unsuccessful.
For them its a life sentence with no prospect of returning home, but should they have been punished for the same crime twice?
Dateline meets Cambodians from Australia and the US being sent to a country their parents fled, but which theyve never called home.
