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€