NY Times: 15,000 Laotian Hmong Refugees to Be Allowed to Resettle in U.S.

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15,000 Laotian Hmong Refugees to Be Allowed to Resettle in U.S.

SARABURI, Thailand, Dec. 18 — The United States will take in about 15,000 Hmong people who fled the Communist takeover of Laos in 1975, the American ambassador, Darryl Johnson, said Thursday at the Thai refugee camp where they have lived for years.

The United States will let the 15,282 Hmong at the Wat Thamkrabok refugee camp in Saraburi, 80 miles north of Bangkok, settle there, Mr. Johnson told a news conference, but he did not say why it had taken so long to accept them.

"The United States is announcing today a program for the resettlement of Laos Hmongs," he said of a people who fought alongside the Americans in the Indochina war. "This program is open to any member of that community who was registered as being here legally as of August of 2003."

The process will begin in February, and applicants who pass medical examinations and background checks may emigrate to the United States, he said.

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15,000 Laotian Hmong Refugees to Be Allowed to Resettle in U.S.

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[Another Bill C.]

1. Many of this group

are expected to settle in St. Paul, Minnesota, which so far has absorbed 24,000 Hmong refugees — the highest concentration in the U.S.

[loudnclear]

2. It took so long to ensure that they would become Republicans.

Minn...and a few other mid-western states were and are havens for all kinds of "resettlement programs." If the American public really knew how many of these programs existed and reached their peaks during the Reagan years they would scream. Money, welfare, healthcare, jobs, easy loans, and free education for many groups including a massive resettlement programs for Vietnamese refugees and Soviet Jews...the most secret of the programs. Chinese, Indian, and Tawanese progrmas were established with less aid but still plenty of government help.

Reletive who majored in Russian and who worked for the Soviet resettlement program is a reliable source...now retired and living out of the country.

[phaseolus]

3. At least in the case of some of the ex-Soviet Jews...

...I expect we've been paid back through their taxes. A lot have settled in the north east suburbs in Milwaukee County and from what I've seen have been doing pretty well, financially.