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U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty:...:
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U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty: former ambassador
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.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman, Brendan Raedy, said that as of December last year, there were 8,600 Vietnamese nationals in the United States subject to deportation and “7,821 have criminal convictions”.
The Trump administration has labeled Vietnam and eight other countries “recalcitrant” for their unwillingness to accept their deported nationals back.
The Vietnamese immigrants, most of whom are legal U.S. residents but not citizens, are in a unique position, however.
According to Osius, most of those targeted for deportation arrived in the United States prior to 1995, the year diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the United States were resumed after the Vietnam War.
A 2008 bilateral agreement between Vietnam and the United States states that “Vietnamese citizens are not subject to return to Vietnam” if they “arrived in the United States before July 12, 1995”.
Osius said the Trump administration had threatened to withhold privileges for Vietnamese officials to the United States and link the issue to trade between the two countries.
He said some immigrants had been involved in serious crimes. But, he added, “there was an agreement in 2008 that the cases between 1975 and 1995 would be left alone”.
Raedy, the ICE spokesman, did not specify the reason those without criminal convictions had been targeted, but immigrants living in the United States without legal status are also subject to deportation.
The White House declined to comment on the deportations.
Katina Adams, a spokeswoman for the State Department’s East Asia bureau, said the U.S. and Vietnamese governments “continue to discuss their respective positions relative to Vietnamese citizens who departed Vietnam for the United States”.
A senior Vietnamese official confirmed that Hanoi was “in discussions” with the United States over the issue.
“Many of the people went to the U.S. as a consequence of the war,” said the official, who requested anonymity. “For those who came to the U.S. later, not as a consequence of the war, that’s a different thing”.
“Those we need to accept”.
Other sources:
November 2017
November 2017
January 2018
March 2018
- Michaela
They are really trying to make American as white as possible
So… they’ve been here since like the 70s, they’ve lived, worked, and raised families as documented immigrants… and now we want to send them back? Why in the hell does this demand our time and energy? WE AIN’T GOT ENOUGH PROBLEMS TO SOLVE WITHOUT CREATING NEW ONES????? Just white washing America as much as possible, huh?
This is insane.
I mean, it’s not like the US is at all to blame for Vietnam not being a great place to live, right? We are totally innocent. We did NOTHING other than, well, the everything that we did.
For what it’s worth, I live in Vietnam and it’s a decent place to live. If you can speak English there is a lot of demand for English teachers and you can make a good amount of money here. I would definitely prefer living here to America.
U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty:...:
twodotsknowwhy:
abagond:
love–life–passion:
dynastylnoire:
reclaimingasia:
U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty: former ambassador
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.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman, Brendan Raedy, said that as of December last year, there were 8,600 Vietnamese nationals in the United States subject to deportation and “7,821 have criminal convictions”.
The Trump administration has labeled Vietnam and eight other countries “recalcitrant” for their unwillingness to accept their deported nationals back.
The Vietnamese immigrants, most of whom are legal U.S. residents but not citizens, are in a unique position, however.
According to Osius, most of those targeted for deportation arrived in the United States prior to 1995, the year diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the United States were resumed after the Vietnam War.
A 2008 bilateral agreement between Vietnam and the United States states that “Vietnamese citizens are not subject to return to Vietnam” if they “arrived in the United States before July 12, 1995”.
Osius said the Trump administration had threatened to withhold privileges for Vietnamese officials to the United States and link the issue to trade between the two countries.
He said some immigrants had been involved in serious crimes. But, he added, “there was an agreement in 2008 that the cases between 1975 and 1995 would be left alone”.
Raedy, the ICE spokesman, did not specify the reason those without criminal convictions had been targeted, but immigrants living in the United States without legal status are also subject to deportation.
The White House declined to comment on the deportations.
Katina Adams, a spokeswoman for the State Department’s East Asia bureau, said the U.S. and Vietnamese governments “continue to discuss their respective positions relative to Vietnamese citizens who departed Vietnam for the United States”.
A senior Vietnamese official confirmed that Hanoi was “in discussions” with the United States over the issue.
“Many of the people went to the U.S. as a consequence of the war,” said the official, who requested anonymity. “For those who came to the U.S. later, not as a consequence of the war, that’s a different thing”.
“Those we need to accept”.
Other sources:
November 2017
November 2017
January 2018
March 2018
- Michaela
They are really trying to make American as white as possible
So… they’ve been here since like the 70s, they’ve lived, worked, and raised families as documented immigrants… and now we want to send them back? Why in the hell does this demand our time and energy? WE AIN’T GOT ENOUGH PROBLEMS TO SOLVE WITHOUT CREATING NEW ONES????? Just white washing America as much as possible, huh?
This is insane.
I mean, it’s not like the US is at all to blame for Vietnam not being a great place to live, right? We are totally innocent. We did NOTHING other than, well, the everything that we did.
For what it’s worth, I live in Vietnam and it’s a decent place to live. If you can speak English there is a lot of demand for English teachers and you can make a good amount of money here. I would definitely prefer living here to America.