# @enquirer on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DRcTR9OjHKl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/54852733-enquirer-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-24T14:15:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sam Greene (@sgdoesit) — https://gondola.cc/sgdoesit

## Caption

Socheath Phong wants to show you why he’s here, living alone in this small rental house just off West Eighth Street in Cincinnati.

His English is improving, but his accent is thick. He worries this might cause confusion, so he wants you to see. He wants you to understand.

At the kitchen table Phong opens a folder and removes some paperwork. He tells you this is supporting material for the application he filled out years ago to come to the United States as a refugee.

He points to an official-looking document from the Cambodian government. It’s the arrest warrant police issued for him in 2017 because of his pro-democracy work for Cambodia’s outlawed opposition party. “They call us traitors,” Phong says.

Phong came to the United States as a refugee two years ago, after the State Department conducted extensive background checks, security reviews and interviews that found he had good reason to fear for his safety. He settled in Cincinnati with help from Catholic Charities.

Soon after he arrived, Phong, 52, began working with the government and Catholic Charities to bring his wife and two youngest children here. That always was the plan, he says. To reunite his family.

But in January, President Donald Trump shut down the program that brought Phong to America, as well as the program that would allow his family to follow him. Because of the recent changes, it could take him years to reunite with his wife and children.

Read the full story at the link in our bio. (📸: frankbowenphoto / The Enquirer) #cincinnati #refugee #trump

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