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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNow Trump is targeting Vietnamese refugees
By Scott Martelle
Now Trump is targeting Vietnamese refugees
In its insatiable quest to rid the U.S. of immigrants, the Trump administration has been rounding up Vietnamese refugees who have been in the country for more than a quarter of a century and trying to send them back to Vietnam despite a formal bilateral agreement that refugees who arrived here prior to the 1995 normalization of relations between the two countries would not be sent home.
In a number of cases, the refugees have been held in detention centers for months as the government sought to obtain travel documents from the Vietnamese government, and despite a Supreme Court decision that said the government could not detain someone for an extended period of time if it was unlikely the home country would accept the deportee.
After the end of the Vietnam War, and after the North Vietnamese communist government unified the country, hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese many of whom fought alongside or cooperated with American forces fled for safety, often boarding rickety boats to cross the South China Sea. In many cases, the refugees were stateless, because they were citizens of South Vietnam, a country that dissolved with the end of the war.
Nearly 1.3 million eventually settled in the U.S., some 200,000 in and around Orange Countys Little Saigon.
That large a population is bound to include some people who break the law, and upward of 10,000 Vietnamese have been ordered deported by immigration judges after being convicted of often serious crimes in American criminal courts. But for more than three decades after the war ended, the Vietnamese government refused to accept deportees from the U.S., viewing the refugees as political enemies or possible American spies.
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Now Trump is targeting Vietnamese refugees (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2018
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gohuskies
(1,156 posts)1. We have an immoral and lawless occupant in the White House
This putrid racist ass needs to be impeached and he and his illegitimate administration needs to be cleansed out of the executive branch along with the Congress critters like McConnell, Nunes, Graham, Grassley etc. immigration is what built our country regardless of race or ethnic backgrounds.
Gothmog
(145,359 posts)2. Stephen Miller has been busy
JI7
(89,254 posts)3. this is also a way to go after McCain
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)4. GAH!!
BASTARD....