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Vietnamese boat people (Vietnamese: Thuyền nhân Việt Nam) were refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This migration and humanitarian crisis was at its highest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but continued well into the early 1990s.
On April 23, Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison, commander of U.S. Naval forces on Guam, was ordered to "accept, shelter, process and care for refugees as they were removed from South Vietnam." [3]: 63 [4] More than 130,000 Vietnamese were evacuated from South Vietnam by air and sea during the last few days of April.
North Vietnamese refugees move from a French landing ship to the USS Montague during Operation Passage to Freedom in August 1954. The predictions made by Diem and Ely were extremely inaccurate. [26] There had been heavy fighting in northern Vietnam, where the Vietminh were at their strongest, and many people had been forced to abandon their ...
The first lists were exchanged by the U.S and Vietnam in late 1979. The US list consisted of 4,000 persons, mostly former employees of the U.S. and of Vietnamese with relatives in the United States. The Vietnamese list included 21,000 persons, the majority of them ethnic Chinese.
Vietnamese refugees at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, during the late 1970s. The resettlement of South Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. initially faced mixed reception, fueled by fears of job competition, welfare strain, and cultural concerns. [27] According to a 1975 Gallup poll, only 36% of Americans approved of the resettlement, while 54% ...
The Act was not passed, however, it began the debate in Congress over how best to evacuate Vietnam and the extent of the President's power to use military troops in order to safely evacuate refugees. These conversations led to the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act which was introduced shortly after H.R. 6096 failed to pass.
A practice born out of a desire to participate in the democratic process at a time when ballots weren't printed in Vietnamese became a powerful organizing tool.
This gave clearance for any Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Lao refugees to tap into the same resources that Cuban refugees had attained in the early 1970s, which included financial assistance and health, employment, and education services. [13] The Indochina Migration and Refugee Act was a watershed moment in U.S. Asian immigration policy.