Imagine if she'd have pleaded not guilty...

The history of the War on Some Drugs has been terrible. People like Leary who had a 10 year sentence for....possession of two roaches. And that was a relatively wealthy white guy...

Possession of any amount for a first-time offense is a misdemeanor punishable by 6 months imprisonment and up to $1,000 in fines

Possession of any amount of marijuana (subsequent offense) is a felony punishable by 3.5 years imprisonment and up to $10,000 in fines

The cultivation of 4 plants or fewer cannabis plants is a felony punishable by 3.5 years imprisonment and up to $10,000 in fines

The cultivation of between 4 and 20 cannabis plants is a felony punishable by 6 years imprisonment and up to $10,000 in fines

Some of the most punitive laws I've seen.

Republican child diddlers get less

Same reason as the Nazi regime and the Jews. They need somebody to hate and destroy because of their fragile ego. It is easier to believe in something than it is to question something.

One of my friends was complaining that Biden's border policy is a disaster and I told her that it's actually very easy to "fix" the border, it's just incompatible with stated US values:

Ritual torture.

Now they have to expand the target population because Biden's deportation numbers were better.

Hopefully Laos deports her back to the US.

Many thousands of refugees fleeing persecution are facing discrimination and cruelty too, and have been for years.

Free democracies in wealthy nations need to step up better to look after ALL refugees.

It's never left me remembering how much hate i saw Kossovo refugees getting in the UK in the 90s. People fleeing a massacre, mass graves, land mines, blitzkrieg, rape as a weapon of war - only to be treated like scum by the average Joe.

Easy answer:

Maybe I miss something, but why Laos of all places?

Seems like Trump just randomly picked a nation that Hmong live in.

The modern Hmong reside mainly in Southwestern China and Mainland Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people

Racism.

Because he wasn't sure if she is Chinese or Japanese

I’m far from an expert and only know what I know from a short story.

But the Hmong people are from Laos but many of them fled to Thailand as refugees I think it was from some military action.

I’m not sure, but it might have been the US military. I read somewhere that Laos had the most bombs dropped on it or something.

Again, this info could be off, so please double check if you want to learn more, but this might get you started.

Asian kind of eyes? Laos is an Asian city? There you go, send her to Laos, it's all the same

(Severe /s if that wasn't clear)

Trump thinks Asians are lousy, so they must all come from Laos.

More than likely her parents were from Laos. Despite being born in Thailand, she is probably considered a Laotian citizen. It's very unlikely they would have accepted her back otherwise.

The country is at war, Nazis have invaded the white house.

Since it isn't mentioned, they probably didn't.