The Cambodian government has denied claims by senior US officials that Cambodia is one of nine countries that have not cooperated in accepting the removal of nationals found to be in the US “without lawful status,” The Phnom Penh Post reports. The Trump administration is preparing to deport the largest group yet of legal Cambodian immigrants to the United States over the next few days, according to human rights groups and an American official, continuing a wave of deportation that has fallen heavily on refugees who fled the upheaval surrounding the Vietnam War, according The New York Times. A deal between the two governments under which hundreds of Cambodians had been sent back from the United States since 2002 fell apart last year when Phnom Penh reportedly stopped accepting returnees.