A super informative series. Question, please: Might you know how chain migration has effected Asian “legal” immigration status? Has chain-migration been evoked?
Absolutely! A great example are the Vietnamese. Before the US involved itself in VIetnam there were less than 250,000 Vietnamese in the United States. After the war ended America took in an initial 125,000 refugees. The US government then passed the "Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act" in 1975 which provided over 400 million dollars to resettle Vietnamese refugees.
This swelled the Vietnamese population to nearly 1 million by the 1990s, mainly through refugees sponsoring their family members.
Today the Vietnamese population in the US stands at 2.3 million and a very large share are Legal Permanent Residents (LPRs) who have come to the US through familial sponsorship from now naturalized Vietnamese refugee relatives.
A further interesting note is that Vietnamese in the US send roughly $14 billion in remittances back to their homeland each year. Money the American economy will never see again.
Thank you! How can folks under these types of “legal” laws be repatriated? I watched Garden Grove in Southern, CA change demographically into about 80% Vietnamese and hardly anyone blinked. Sending $14 billion into their homelands constitutes “passive war-like” behavior, even though it’s “legal.”
A super informative series. Question, please: Might you know how chain migration has effected Asian “legal” immigration status? Has chain-migration been evoked?
Thank you for all of your excellent work!
SwordOfLight,
Absolutely! A great example are the Vietnamese. Before the US involved itself in VIetnam there were less than 250,000 Vietnamese in the United States. After the war ended America took in an initial 125,000 refugees. The US government then passed the "Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act" in 1975 which provided over 400 million dollars to resettle Vietnamese refugees.
This swelled the Vietnamese population to nearly 1 million by the 1990s, mainly through refugees sponsoring their family members.
Today the Vietnamese population in the US stands at 2.3 million and a very large share are Legal Permanent Residents (LPRs) who have come to the US through familial sponsorship from now naturalized Vietnamese refugee relatives.
A further interesting note is that Vietnamese in the US send roughly $14 billion in remittances back to their homeland each year. Money the American economy will never see again.
Thanks!
WPPI Team
Thank you! How can folks under these types of “legal” laws be repatriated? I watched Garden Grove in Southern, CA change demographically into about 80% Vietnamese and hardly anyone blinked. Sending $14 billion into their homelands constitutes “passive war-like” behavior, even though it’s “legal.”