Thousands of Vietnamese, including offspring of U.S. troops, could be deported under tough Trump pol

[IronLionZion]

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Robert Huynh is the son of an American serviceman, although he never knew his father. His mother is Vietnamese, and he was conceived during the Vietnam War. In 1984, nine years after the last American troops left the country, 14-year-old Huynh moved to Louisville with his mother, half brother and half sisters under a U.S. government program to bring Amerasians and others to the United States.

Today, at 48, with a son and two young grandsons in Kentucky, he faces the prospect of being sent back to Vietnam, a country he has not visited since he left and where he has no relatives or friends.

Huynh is one of about 8,000 Vietnamese potentially caught up in a tough new immigration policy adopted by the Trump administration, significantly escalating deportation proceedings against immigrants who have green cards but never became U.S. citizens, and who have violated U.S. law.
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“My mother is 83 years old right now, and I want to be here when she passes away,” he said by telephone from Houston. “I don’t have anybody in Vietnam. My life is here in the United States.”

You know, because they support our troops so much.

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility of this pure evil.

I am canvassing this weekend, I intend to make sure voters know about this.

[dalton99a]

2. Stephen Miller is behind this.

It is repulsive and racist

[ecstatic]

3. Why are they doing this? Do they not understand how petty, cruel, and inhumane

this is? Also, if they're going after legal residents like this then the DACA kids have no hope at this point. We really have to win big in November. With each new day, the government of this country is becoming more and more deplorable. A government that I do not want to be associated with.

[MineralMan]

4. They understand that full well.

It is their intent to be petty, cruel, and inhumane...to people of color. Trump's true slogan is: Make America White Again!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. K&R.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Maybe it is a reach

but is this kind of a snub to John McCain, given that he helped normalize relations with.........Vietnam? Or is my tinfoil hat getting too tight?