Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The Trump administration is resuming its efforts to deport certain protected Vietnamese immigrants who have lived in the United States for decades—many of them having fled the country during the Vietnam War.

This is the latest move in the president’s long record of prioritizing harsh immigration and asylum restrictions, and one that’s sure to raise eyebrows—the 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 law—meaning 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, 1995—the 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]

1. I know who the violent, criminal alien is

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]

9. That criminal was preceded by the ones who created the Vietnam War

invaded Cambodia, creating conditions for the Khmer Rouge to take over.

[KT2000]

2. No - No - No!

This cannot happen.

[vlyons]

3. more depraved indifference by Trump

many of those Vietnamese were people that helped Americans during the Viet-nam war.

[gopiscrap]

4. trump is a fucker

my foster nephew is a Vietnamese refugee

[JDC]

5. This smells of Stephen Miller

[dalton99a]

6. It is part of Stephen Miller's ethnic/racial purge

[Corgigal]

13. Like that little asshole

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]

7. The flaming a**hole wants everyone of color deported. So much

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]

8. Hey Stephen Miller! Who's next on your list?

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]

10. Wow. If anyone believes there're uncrossable gulfs between this,

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]

11. trump: This is one of the many reasons why we HATE you!

Your cruelty knows no bounds. You are disgusting as hell and unfit to lead this country.

[spanone]

12. We need to get this man gone asap...he is evil. hands down, evil.

[panader0]

14. It's like he looks for bad things to do. n/t

[UTUSN]

15. K&R

[Ilsa]

16. He's deporting professional workers who

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]

17. What's next -- deporting German Jewish WWII immigrants?

because we were at war with Germany at the time?