PhillyGives Story on Vietlead’s advocacy

During an interview in VietLead’s cramped offices in a South Philadelphia Asian shopping center, Chu Bach began to cry. It’s all too much — too much trauma, too much pain, too much fear.

What if he never came back? What if immigration grabbed him and deported him? What if he never saw his wife and son again?“Right now, a lot of our community is scared, knowing that immigration hostility will increase, with a stance that is very pro-deportation,” said Lan Dinh, cofounder and co-executive director.