Among those moves, he said, were the United States’ exit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership , its “abdication of responsibility” on climate change , and the travel ban targeting mostly Muslim-majority countries. As deportations and detentions continue to rock the Vietnamese community in the U.S., the former ambassador to Vietnam has revealed that those “repatriations” were the reason for his October departure. A few weeks ago, around 40 Vietnamese refugees who came to the U.S. before the 1995 cutoff sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for unlawful, prolonged detention. In total, about 8,000 to 10,000 Vietnamese refugees have orders of removal and are at risk for detention. “The United States is continuing to bully these countries.

Source: Huffington Post April 13, 2018 20:15 UTC