Daughter of woman murdered by man who US deported speaks out: ‘He was denied due process’

<p>Thongxay Nilakout, who shot Birte Pfleger’s parents in 1994, is among eight convicted criminals who were deported</p><p>The daughter of a woman murdered by a man from Laos who is among those controversially <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/us-deportation-men-south-sudan">deported</a> from the US to South Sudan has spoken out about her family’s pain but also to decry the lack of rights afforded to those who were expelled to countries other than their own.</p><p>Birte Pfleger lives in Los Angeles and was a history student at Cal State University in Long Beach when her parents came to visit her from their native Germany in 1994 and ended up shot by Thongxay Nilakout during a robbery while on a sightseeing trip. Pfleger’s mother, Gisela, was killed and her father, Klaus, wounded.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/27/daughter-woman-murdered-man-laos-deported">Continue reading...</a>