Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/donald-trump-deport-vietnam-war-refugees/577993/
The Trump administration is resuming its efforts to deport certain protected Vietnamese immigrants who have lived in the United States for decades—many of them having fled the country during the Vietnam War.
This is the latest move in the president’s long record of prioritizing harsh immigration and asylum restrictions, and one that’s sure to raise eyebrows—the White House had hesitantly backed off the plan in August before reversing course. In essence, the administration has now decided that Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the country before the establishment of diplomatic ties between the United States and Vietnam are subject to standard immigration law—meaning they are all eligible for deportation.
The new stance mirrors White House efforts to clamp down on immigration writ large, a frequent complaint of the president’s on the campaign trail and one he links to a litany of ills in the United States.
For years, both American and Vietnamese officials had taken that to mean that the US wouldn’t deport pre-1995 arrivals. But US officials are now reinterpreting the scope of the agreement, the Atlantic reports. They say that although the deal does not provide for the US to deport pre-1995 arrivals, they can still be deported according to broader US immigration law.
Uhh....what is the logical reasoning behind this?
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