Tuan Phan

Tuan Thanh Phan, finished serving a prison sentence when ICE officers picked up from the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell, Washington, on March 3, 2025, and immediately put him into deportation proceedings. Tuan, and his wife Ngoc Phan, who met as kids living in the same Tacoma apartment building, were preparing for his deportation to Vietnam. Tuan signed his deportation papers to be sent to Vietnam. However the night before his flight, ICE told him they never filed his deportation papers for Vietnam and that he would be sent to South Sudan instead. With no ability to object to his deportation or demonstrate credible fear for his own safety, Tuan's deportation process is a clear denial of due process. After a court order temporarily stopping the South Sudan deportation proceeding until those being deported can be seen before a judge, the plane stopped in Djibouti, where those aboard are currently held in limbo, unable to speak to family members and questionable access to lawyers.