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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
This is the latest move in the presidents long record of prioritizing harsh immigration and asylum restrictions, and one thats sure to raise eyebrowsthe White House had hesitantly backed off the plan in August before reversing course. In essence, the administration has now decided that Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the country before the establishment of diplomatic ties between the United States and Vietnam are subject to standard immigration lawmeaning they are all eligible for deportation.
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The administration last year began pursuing the deportation of many long-term immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and other countries who the administration alleges are violent criminal aliens. But Washington and Hanoi have a unique 2008 agreement that specifically bars the deportation of Vietnamese people who arrived in the United States before July 12, 1995the date the two former foes reestablished diplomatic relations following the Vietnam War.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/donald-trump-deport-vietnam-war-refugees/577993
Didn't we do enough to ruin these people's lives? I once met a gentlemen who was one of the "Boat People" who spent years in a Vietnamese re-education camp. His story almost moved me to tears.
wryter2000
(46,081 posts)And he's squatting in the White House.
He was thwarted yesterday, so today, he turns to completely unnecessary cruelty to make himself feel better.
DBoon
(22,397 posts)invaded Cambodia, creating conditions for the Khmer Rouge to take over.
KT2000
(20,587 posts)This cannot happen.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)many of those Vietnamese were people that helped Americans during the Viet-nam war.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)my foster nephew is a Vietnamese refugee
JDC
(10,133 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)has ever done one damn thing for this country. He won't put in the time to find out why they were offered to live here to begin with.
Sometime we need a draft, so humans like above, get a larger world of life.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)for America honoring any treaty, pact, agreement or promise it has ever made. We are rapidly becoming the most hated country in the world.
no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)Deporting all African-Americans who are descendants of people who were violently kidnapped from their homes in Africa, shackled in the bottom of ships, sold into slavery, had their skin ripped from their bodies with whips, persecuted when released, kept in starvation and poverty for centuries? After all, aren't they "illegal immigrants" too?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)persecution and racial/ethnic cleansing of American-born citizens, and ultimately genocide, I have a Grand Canyon for sale. Targeting those who aren't card-carrying Americans is just the sort of thing that normalizes and helps people get used to the unthinkable.
Evil.
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)Your cruelty knows no bounds. You are disgusting as hell and unfit to lead this country.
spanone
(135,873 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)UTUSN
(70,740 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)were born overseas, then came here to finish their degrees. They are working folks, married with children born here, homeowners. Some came over on work visas because they had skill sets in high demand. Trump is throwing them out, even if they are part of the way through their naturalization process. The companies that employ them are scrambling to find new people who can do those jobs. These people are not criminals.
mainer
(12,029 posts)because we were at war with Germany at the time?