Thread: Sending Boat People Back to Vietnam

Sending Boat People Back to Vietnam

New America Media, Commentary/Analysis, Natalie Newton and Angie Junck, Posted: Mar 20, 2008

Editor's Note: This year, the United States and Vietnam signed a historical agreement to deport Vietnamese immigrants from the United States -- part of a long history of the United States’ lack of accountability after the Vietnam War, write Natalie Newton and Angela Junck. Newton is a second-generation Vietnamese American and community organizer in Seattle. Junck is a deportation defense attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco, a member of the Detention Watch Network. Immigration Matters regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates.


On Jan. 22, 2008, the United States and Vietnam signed a historical agreement to deport Vietnamese immigrants from the United States.

While the United States claims that the agreement is a “building block of democracy,â€

[quote]While the United States claims that the agreement is a “building block of democracy,â€

MyAmerica, did Ben Franklin really say that?

This article seems to point towards selective immigration in a biased sorta way according to the positions of those who are so willing to point towards illegal immigrants doing jobs Americans don't want to do. Problematic perhaps!

Actually Americans were in Vietnam back in the early fifties.

roundabout--yes, that is a quote attributed to Ben Franklin.

Here are quite a number of his quotes:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/autho ... nklin.html

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

These are not the first boat people sent back, thousands more who could not prove they were political refugees were sent back from Asian refugee camps in the 1990's. The US and other countries only accepted political refugees, not economic refugees. Minh is an economic refugee. If he wants a better life he is going to have to work for it in Vietnam.