Dear Ms Myers or anyone whom it might concern,
My name 's Nguyen, I am currently an legal permanent resident of the United States of America. I know this would not promise anything but at least I want to try. Please just spend a little of your time reading this message and consider. After reading this, you can do anything with this message but I am really thankful that you would review this message.
I have a friend, who is Vietnamese and being deported to our home country after an agreement between US and Vietnam last January 22nd. My friend was convicted a crime for having ***BANNED WORD*** with a sixteen-year-old girl in 2002. At that time, he signed "Voluntary Departure" which said that he is ready for leaving the country any time his country would take him back and was set free by the immigration court. After that time, he has been trying to live well and contributing for society. He paid taxes and has not been convicted for any crime since that period of time. He had tried to start all over again, be a good resident and he did.
It's been five years already and now, an agreement signed between US and Vietnam last January has taken away all of his confidence in continuing his life. He is now facing deportation because a mistake in the past. My friend, and some of Vietnamese, has left Vietnam for a very long time and like some people said "They don't have any connection there anymore". They don't have any relatives, they don't know where to live, don't even know what to do to make their own livings and would be treated unfairly by the government.
I know this is hard for you, immigrants in other countries have caused you a lot of problems in recent years but please reconsider. People keep running away from their countries to the US to seek for jobs and above all, for a better life that their home countries cannot provide them. I also know that all the people who do wrong things should be punished but if being deported, would they be able to get over ? Every people make mistakes but for someone who showed their repentance and desire to redeem their faults should be tolerated. My friend was young when he made that mistake and because of the differences in languages and not being well awarded of the immigration law. He has lived here for nearly twelve years already. He has no one in relation back there in Vietnam, no job, no place to live, completely nothing and would definitely be removed from society by Communist Government.
I am sending this message to ask for a favor. This would not only effect my friend but thousands of people. Thousands of people will be separated from their families and lose their direction from life. I know this is really hard and nothing to be guaranteed, but at least I want to try to do something for them before it is too late. They are law-breakers but not all of them are bad people. Some of them has been regretting for what they have done for years and trying to correct their faults and be better residents. I beg you please just reconsider and give these people, who deserves, a chance because this is humanitarian matter. You would save a lot of people's lives. Please save my friend's and other people's lives. They would be in serious problems if they have to get back to Vietnam where they no longer have any connections. In return, they should not receive any benefit from the government which they can have while being a resident.
Thank you so much for your time.
Nguyen

[sigh] for several days of searching crazily on the internet, I probably found out that people like us, who were convicted, should not ask for amnesty but at least, we were still hoping for some miracles to appear. Sorry, we made a wrong move.
Anyway, thank you for spending your time reading these stuff.