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| 'The US has no obligation': Biden fought to keep Vietnamese refugees out of the US |
| 2019-07-05 |
| [Washington Examiner] Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner and advocate of large-scale immigration, once tried to block the evacuation of tens of thousands of South Vietnamese refugees who had helped the United States during the Vietnam War. As a senator, the future vice president, now 76, was adamant that the U.S. had "no obligation, moral or otherwise, to evacuate foreign nationals," dismissing concerns for their safety as the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong swept south toward Saigon in 1975. His position was in stark contrast to the one he took nearly 30 years later over Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who had worked with U.S. forces. "We owe these people," his then top foreign policy adviser Tony Blinken said in 2012. "We have a debt to these people. They put their lives on the line for the United States." Biden said in 2015 that keeping Syrian refugees out of the U.S. would be a win for ISIS and tweeted in 2017 that "we must protect, support, and welcome refugees" to maintain the promise of America. As South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War in the spring of 1975, President Gerald Ford and the U.S. government undertook to evacuate thousands of South Vietnamese families who had assisted the U.S. throughout the war. The leading voice in the Senate opposing this rescue effort was then-Sen. Joe Biden. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 And then came the killing fields of Cambodia |
| Posted by: Beavis 2019-07-05 13:09 |
| #4 Something is fundamentally wrong with a guy who would rather have Afghans coming into the country than Vietnamese. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-07-05 12:20 |
| #3 It Looks Like Joe Biden’s Son Took A Bribe From A Chinese Businessman |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-07-05 08:12 |
| #2 So, in all his political career, he ever was on a right side of any issue? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-07-05 08:05 |
| #1 Link to Wisconsin Lao Vets website |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-07-05 07:16 |