Chao Lee, Senior Adie at Office of Congresswoman McCollum told SBS Radio Hmong Program that the US Department of State has not yet confirmed whether it would deport Hmong-Lao who has committed crimes and served their time back to Laos.
Ms. Sia Her the Executive Director Asian Pacific Council of Minnesotans she shares Ms. McCollum's letter so the American public is informed about the Trump administration's deportation, but if anyone wants to know if this matter is confirmed by the US Department of State, the answer is "no" on its Facebook page.
In the Minnesota House Representative Betty McCollum letter to the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, she said that "it is 'unconscionable' to deport Hmong-Lao community members back to Laos. It is an attack on her constituents and their faimilies. These communities has immeasurably contributed to Minnesotans quality of life and its economy. It is just politics and she strongly opposed such action as she regards as human rights abuse."
Last week, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also meet Lao foreign minister Saleumxay Kommasith in Washington DC as Laos appoint it new Ambassador Khamphan Anlavan.
In an interview video by John Walker interview Paul Yang the director of Fresno Center, published by the Fresnobee, Mr Yang said that ""The Southeast Asian (Hmong, Lao, and Cambodian) that are living in California are not immigrants but they are refugees. They were born in refugee camps or on their ways to America (the US) and never know or heard of Laos. These are the Hmong and Laos descendent whose parents fought alongside the US soldiers during the Vietnam War. They are the kids of those veterans, though when they are young they may have committed crimes they have served their time, deporting them doesn't make sense to me. It is common sense that you don't do that. That war is still very real and we are still dealing with clients experiencing PTSD and still feel that war is still fresh in their mind. So when you deport those so young communities and the war is still so fresh in their mind back, I don't know how to feel about that."
