Immigrant rights organisations in the United States fear that thousands of Vietnamese Americans are at a heightened risk of deportation.

Southeast Asian American community rights groups on Monday issued an alert, warning that Vietnamese immigrants with final removal orders are particularly vulnerable to potential arrest, detention and deportation.

It’s estimated that over 10,000 US residents of Vietnamese origin, many whom arrived as refugees, have removal orders.

Removal orders are issued in a number of scenarios including to those who might have once been refused entry into the country and to non-citizens who were convicted of a crime.

The community group’s warning noted that Washington had submitted 95 deportation cases to Hanoi to be process in the last month.

It also cited that a delegation of Vietnamese officials arriving to interview the Vietnamese community in the US state of Georgia signalled that President Trump was looking to deport more  Vietnamese with removal orders.