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Swordsmyth
12-13-2018, 04:21 PM
The US government has unilaterally reinterpreted an accord signed with Vietnam in 2008 to allow it to send Vietnamese citizens in America who arrived before 1995 back to their home country.
Previously, the 2008 agreement was understood by both nations to bar the deportation of Vietnamese people who arrived before July 12, 1995, when diplomatic relations were re-established between the former warring nations.
But the White House has now decided Vietnamese migrants who have been convicted of crimes can be sent home, even if they arrived before 1995.


Katie Waldman, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, told the magazine it was a “priority” of Mr Trump’s administration to “remove criminal aliens to their home country.”
“We have 5,000 convicted criminal aliens from Vietnam with final orders of removal – these are non-citizens who during previous administrations were arrested, convicted, and ultimately ordered removed by a federal immigration judge.”
Separately, a spokesperson for the US embassy in Hanoi confirmed the Trump government, contrary to the practice of both the Bush and Obama administrations, has decided the 2008 accord does not “explicitly preclude the removal of pre-1995 cases”.


Since he came to office Mr Trump has been pushing to toughen immigration rules and force foreign nations to accept deportations of more of their citizens.
His officials have also worked to change and reinterpret immigration rules to widen the pool of non-citizens who are liable to being deported.

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