Looks like S.E. Asians are targeted more and more now??

[theking]

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Mass Deportation Was Never About "Law and Order"

On Wednesday, a new story from The Atlantic reported on the Trump administration's latest effort to ramp up its already-massive deportation regime. In the last two years, the administration has been steadily revoking protections for many immigrants living legally in the U.S., and the White House has now decided that refugees from the Vietnam War are next on the chopping block. From The Atlantic:

The administration last year began pursuing the deportation of many long-term immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and other countries who the administration alleges are “violent criminal aliens.” But Washington and Hanoi have a unique 2008 agreement that specifically bars the deportation of Vietnamese people who arrived in the United States before July 12, 1995—the date the two former foes reestablished diplomatic relations following the Vietnam War.
 
The White House unilaterally reinterpreted the agreement in the spring of 2017 to exempt people convicted of crimes from its protections, allowing the administration to send back a small number of pre-1995 Vietnamese immigrants, a policy it retreated from this past August. Last week, however, James Thrower, a spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Hanoi, said the American government was again reversing course.

Refugees have long been an obsession for the far right, according to historian Kathleen Belew. In her book Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, she describes how this obsession stems from conspiracy theories that Jews are attempting to flood the U.S. with immigrants to dilute the white race until it no longer exits (Tucker Carlson has the same concerns about America not being white enough). The Klan in fact used the influx of Vietnamese refugees after the war to help with mobilization and recruitment, even setting up a paramilitary camp outside of Galveston in the '80s to terrorize the new Vietnamese community. As Belew writes, they built up support by making up claims that many refugees were secretly Communist infiltrators—the same kind of baseless fearmongering that Trump and many other Republicans have relied on for political points when smearing Syrian refugees as ISIS agents.

But Donald Trump has defended the crueler aspects of his immigration policy by claiming that he's simply following the letter of the law. This tracks with most excuses for ICE's draconian practices (illegal entry means you should rot in a prison camp indefinitely) and Trump's own posturing as the "law and order" candidate during his campaign.

Claiming that Donald Trump cares about the rule of law is ridiculous on its face. We don't even need to get into his obvious contempt for laws and the legal process when it inconveniences him or his family—we can look entirely at his administration's immigration policy to know that their claims to only go after criminals is total bullshit. The White House's plans to open up deportation to people who fled the Vietnam War is just the latest example. Had the Trump administration done absolutely nothing, then under the law these people would have been completely safe from deportation. Instead, and despite the fact that many Southeast Asian refugees had to flee to the U.S. precisely because they worked with American forces, the White House chose to reinterpret the law.

Trump's moves to deport thousands of Haitian, Nepalese, Sudanese, and Central American immigrants in the U.S. legally is another example. Earlier this year, the administration announced that it was ending the Temporary Protected Status for many groups of immigrants, with no other justification than basically Well, 'temporary' is right there in the name, isn't it? These weren't people who were breaking any laws. The only way to legally round up and deport them was to actively end the policies allowing them to be in the country—so that's what the Department of Homeland Security did.

None of this is rooted in concern for law and order. It's ethnic cleansing, an attempt to remake America as white a country as it can possibly be. It just so happens that it's entirely legal.

[Visualmon]

If the Alt-Right reclaim America again this is what will happen to the Asian American that born in the U.S.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/good-samaritan-makes-citizens-arrest-woman-attacks-subway-passengers-yelling-racial-slurs-181549771.html

 

[theking]

Definitely more hate based solely on skin color in the last couple years in recent memory...

Hopefully it doesn't get to say something like the Chinese Exclusion Act again...

[theking]

Here we go with some counters:

Trump Administration Move Puts San Jose’s Vietnamese-American Community On Edge

SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) — President Trump’s deportation efforts have a new group of immigrants in the Bay Area worried: San Jose residents who came from Vietnam.

The Trump administration says it’s focusing new deportation action  on a narrow group of Vietnamese immigrants, specifically non-citizens who entered the United States before 1995, when the U.S. and Vietnam normalized relations, and those who have been convicted of crimes.

The South Bay city has one of the largest Vietnamese-American populations anywhere in the United States. The recent changes to immigration policy by the Trump administration are causing fear and uncertainty of the community.

“Everyone in the Vietnamese community knows of someone who might be affected,” said Madison Nguyen, a former San Jose City Councilmember and Vice Mayor.

She told KPIX 5 the deportation order is causing a ripple effect in cities with large Vietnamese-American populations like San Jose.

“I think what the president is doing is unjust. It’s shameful. It’s cruel,” said Nguyen.

Nguyen fled the communist takeover of Vietnam on a boat with her family when she was just four years old. She said people who could be deported would be considered enemies by the current Vietnamese Communist government.

“If they go back there, they are not really sure what’s going to happen to them.  Particularly those who went to re-education camps after the war. And so for them to go back now is a very dangerous situation,” Nguyen said.

Several past administration s have allowed those immigrants to stay in the U.S. under the decade-old Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Vietnam.

The decision by Trump’s Department of Homeland Security reverses that policy.

“We have 5,000 convicted criminal aliens from Vietnam with final orders of removal. These are non-citizens who during previous administration s were arrested, convicted, and ultimately ordered removed by a federal immigration judge,” said DHS spokesperson Katie Waldman. “It’s a priority of this administration to remove criminal aliens to their home country.”

But immigrant supporters say it’s unclear exactly who the DHS is targeting.

“There’s a big difference between being convicted of a violent, predatory felony and someone who had a DUI 35 years ago.  We need to understand who is being targeted before we can rush to conclusions,” said San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.

Liccardo said San Jose may join other cities in denouncing the deportation effort that he agrees could affect many people who have called San Jose home for decades.