Read the article this week by Thomas Allen at VDare (http://vdare.com/allen/070730_vietnamese.htm)
“Why More Vietnamese Refugees–Thirty Years After the War? Because There’s Money In It, Stupid”
The article caught my eye because two of my children are Vietnamese and my daughter just returned from spending 7 weeks visiting her extended Catholic family. She reports that she saw no persecution of anyone for religious reasons and that everyone openly displayed symbols of their faiths, whether Catholic or Buddhist. Now that is not to say there isn’t some persecution going on, but isn’t there some everywhere? As for those who were politcally persecuted for helping America, they are old men and women now.
She also reported that although poor by American standards, people’s lives were improving from when she was last there nine years ago.
So, who are these refugees we are now so eager to add to the refugee program? My guess is that either they are riff-raff, or they are just the sort of people who should stay in Vietnam to rebuild the country—smart, energetic, entreprenurial, pro-democracy individuals.
Could it be about the perpetuation of the refugee industry entrenched in the federal bureaucracy and tied to NGO contractors? See Allen’s piece at VDare and decide for yourself.