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Hmong Americans are the largest Asian ethnic group in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. [3] [4] Allies of the United States in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War and later stages of the Laotian Civil War, they started seeking asylum as political refugees after the communist takeover in both nations in 1975, including the Hmong genocide in Laos.
The first Hmong elected to a political office in the state was Tony Vang, who became a Fresno Unified School District board member after a 2002 election. The Fresno Hmong had advocated for California bill AB78 which established a requirement for Southeast Asian history education in the California school system; this bill passed in 2003. [10]
This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...
Immigration already is responsible for the modest 19,000-resident growth metro Milwaukee did see from 2010 to 2019, the Lubar report said. ... and the Hmong had adjusted well to life in Wisconsin:
Green Bay School Board candidates, from left, Alex Mineau, Kou Lee and Andrew Becker at a candidates forum held Thursday, March 21, 2024, in the Brown County Central Library in Green Bay.
In an unofficial tally from news coverage and advocacy group reports, Wisconsin Watch counted 20 Wisconsin homicide cases since 1990 in which Hmong men have killed their intimate partners and, in ...
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. ISBN 9781611744491. Yang, Kou (2017). The Making of Hmong America: Forty Years after the Secret War. Lexington Books. ISBN 9781498546454. Wisconsin Hmong Population and Hmong Mutual Assistance Associations (PDF) (Map). United States Department of Agriculture.
A Hmong theologian, Rev. Dr. Paul Joseph T. Khamdy Yang has proposed the use of the term "HMong" in reference to the Hmong and the Mong communities by capitalizing the H and the M. The ethnologist Jacques Lemoine has also begun to use the term (H)mong in reference to the entirety of the Hmong and Mong communities.