Thread: Why More Vietamese Refugees-30 Years After The War?

Why More Vietnamese Refugees—Thirty Years After The War? Because There’s Money In It, Stupid

By Thomas Allen

[Previously by Thomas Allen: Bush Administration: What War on Terror? Bring In More Immigrants!]

I attended a U.S. government refugee resettlement conference in January of this year. Martha Newton, the director of the Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) repeatedly told the assembled audience of 600 private “refugee contractorsâ€

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Today’s Letter: A Maryland Mother With Vietnamese Children Says the U.S. Has No Need To Federally Fund Refugee Programs

From: Maria Graham

Re: Thomas Allen’s Column: Why More Vietnamese Refugees Thirty Years After The War? Because There’s Money In It, Stupid

My husband and I have adopted children from Vietnam and have an on-going interest in that country’s progress.

Nine years ago when I traveled to Southeast Asia to bring home my children, I was stunned by Vietnam’s poverty.

When I visited a Catholic Convent and Orphanage, I was further shocked to learn that not one American (public or private) cent had been donated to this facility located as an oasis in the midst of the teeming Ho Chi Minh City.

Our family contributed to the Sisters over the years and took on additional responsibility by sponsoring a young boy so that he could stay in school. Mind you, $240 a year keeps him in school.

You might think that is what school costs but it’s not for his tuition and books. The money is to help support his family so that he doesn’t have to work at age twelve. Such a small sum goes far in Vietnam.

About a year ago, my daughter and I thought we might find funding for needy Vietnamese. We contacted a major Catholic international charity but we came away disappointed by a complete lack of interest in our proposal. As far as I know, there is still no American support of any kind (beyond our small contribution) to this Catholic Convent.

Yet, as pointed out by Allen, the U.S. taxpayer is going to spend millions and millions to bring so-called refugees from Vietnam to the US.

It’s astounding! My teenage daughter returned last week from a seven-week visit to her extended family and to the Catholic orphanage. She told me that economically things in Vietnam are picking up. Interestingly, we expected she would be mobbed with entreaties for invitations to the US but during her stay no one approached her about how to get to America.

Although Vietnam remains a poor country, my daughter reported that people’s spirits are high and they are proud of the beauty, historic sites and their country’s culture.

Since we have normalized relations with Vietnam, anyone interested in coming to America can now just apply through the normal immigration process. They don’t need to come as refugees.

I don’t get it. Who are the refugees? Surely we aren’t planning to drain the country of its best and brightest just at the point when Vietnam needs to keep its people with entrepreneurial spirit. Instead, the U.S. wants to scoop up those with the drive and ambition to reform their country.

Taking talented Vietnamese out of their country and transplanting them the U.S. does nothing for Vietnam.

If you want to help people who would rather stay in Vietnam than be displaced in America, then contribute directly them.

Read James Fulford’s column about the Vietnamese and their love for their country here. And read the response to it from a Vietnamese here.

Send Graham mail c/o witan@vdare.com



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Sorry for my tin foil hat comments, but here's another.

The Vietnamese which are carefully placed all over this country are in disguise. Just look in your local nail salons. They are Communist with an agenda. On yahoo search engine type in "final invasion". Go to #6 on the list. It's all part of the plan to destroy us for the new world order.

I had my nails done last year at a place my sister has been going for years.

They are all from Vietnam. The Girl's name is Jenny and she frequently goes back to Vietnam for holidays.

I have never had a manicure or pedicure in my life, but there is no way I would go to some of these places.

There was an instance in DAllas of a lady dying from something that was done when she had a pedicure.