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A recycling sign in Minnesota with instructions in Hmong and other languages. By 2013, there were about ten Hmong nonprofit organizations in St. Paul. [9] The largest Hmong nonprofit group in the State of Minnesota is the Hmong American Partnership (HAP), headquartered in St. Paul. [8] Founded in 1990, HAP is led by a board of up to 10 members ...
It was not until the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980 that families were able to enter the U.S., becoming the second wave of Hmong immigrants. Hmong families were scattered across all 50 states but most found their way to each other, building large communities in California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington State and Oregon.
The Hmong were also more involved in political activities that 57 percent of the Hmong in Minnesota regarded themselves as Democrats, shown by a survey in 2008, and several Hmong people, including Madison P. Nguyen, former Hmong refugee women in Minnesota, had been elected political staffs in city offices.
The Hmong immigrants followed the legendary General Vang Pao and settled primarily in northeast Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California.
Former Minneapolis officer Tou Thao’s role in the death of George Floyd has thrust the city's Hmong refugee population into the national discourse around race. The actions of Thao, who is Hmong ...
Kou Thao, the wife of Hmong pastor Moua Vang, teaches ESL classes for new immigrants, leads youth programming and organizes church events. Thao was born and raised in a refugee camp in Thailand ...
The Hmong people have experienced not only hardships in trying to integrate themselves into a new society but also faced hostility and racism from Americans in their communities. In the mid 1970s, before the arrival Hmong immigrants, the small towns of Eau Claire, Wisconsin and Rochester, Minnesota were nearly one hundred percent white. However ...
The Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 (H.R. 371; Pub.L. 106-207; 114 Stat. 316.) is legislation which granted Hmong and ethnic Laotian veterans, who were legal refugee aliens in the US (political refugees, facing political persecution, ethnic cleansing, human rights violations or genocide) from the communist Lao government, and who also served in U.S.-backed guerrilla, or US special ...