U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty: former ambassador

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. APRIL 12, 2018 / 2:28 AM / UPDATED 7 HOURS AGO

U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty: former ambassador

James Pearson
6 MIN READ

HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - The United States is seeking to send thousands of immigrants from Vietnam back to the communist-ruled country despite a bilateral agreement that should protect most from deportation, according to Washington’s former ambassador to Hanoi.

A “small number” of people protected by the agreement have already been sent back, the former ambassador, Ted Osius, told Reuters in an interview.

Osius said that many of the targeted immigrants were supporters of the now defunct U.S.-backed state of South Vietnam, and Hanoi would see them as destabilizing elements.

“These people don’t really have a country to come back to,” he said. Many of those targeted would have come to the United States as refugees after the end of the Vietnam War.

Osius said the push by the Trump administration started in April last year and contributed to his resignation in October.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-vietnam-deportees/u-s-seeks-to-deport-thousands-of-vietnamese-protected-by-treaty-former-ambassador-idUSKBN1HJ0OU

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility of this evil.

“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear.”
Alan Paton

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Rump and team are violent, evil and filthy fucks. County is under attack.

[Freethinker65]

3. 7821 have "criminal convictions"?

Convictions for what exactly and for how long after they arrived?

Must the US agree to accept the return of any American in a foreign country in which they have established permanent residence for over 20 years if they are deemed a "convicted criminal" in that foreign country?

[malthaussen]

4. Ah, Operation Keelhaul strikes again. n/t

[dalton99a]

5. Kick