U.S. Reverses Its Stance on Hmong Refugees
After decades of lobbying by the Lao Veterans of America, about 15,000 Hmong refugees who are stuck in a temple in Thailand will be allowed to apply to enter the United States after the State Department reversed its position last week.
Many of them are expected to settle in California’s Central Valley, home to a Hmong community of about 50,000.
About 195,000 Hmong and about 135,000 lowland Lao live in the United States.
They and their families were allowed into the country because they helped the United States during the Vietnam War.
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