Tag: refugee
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Accused Fresno County Jail shooter is poster child for deportation gaps
A Hmong refugee accused of shooting two Fresno County correctional officers is one of thousands of immigrants existing in a legal limbo because their home countries have declined to take them back. U.S. immigration authorities tried to deport Thong Vang … Read Full Article
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Closing achievement gap for Hmong students should be a priority
Since arriving in Wisconsin in 1980 as a Hmong refugee, I have been engaged in social justice for Hmong people and refugee communities. My passion for helping others started as a teenager, when I entered high school and knew no English. I was the target of … Read Full Article
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Fresno Correctional Officer Who Was Shot in Head Returns Home
Yesterday Vang, a Hmong refugee, pled not guilty to two counts of attempted murder, the Fresno Bee reported. He was scheduled to return to court Oct. 19 and, if convicted, could face 110 years to life in prison. Vang was on parole at the time of the … Read Full Article
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Fresno jail officer who was shot is home in Sanger
Davila and Scanlan were unarmed and working in the lobby of the downtown Fresno jail Sept. 3 when they were shot as they tried to escort Thong Vang, a Hmong refugee with a violent criminal history, out of the lobby. Vang, 37, is facing attempted murder … Read Full Article
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Going beyond the model minority myth in education
I am Hmong American. I came to this country as a refugee. I was a first-generation college student. I was a commuter student, juggling the demands of working, going to school, and taking care of my parents and siblings. My parents having had no formal … Read Full Article
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Talk radio host and lifelong educator vie for assembly seat in Wausau
Wright’s first education job as an ESL teacher for the Wausau School District was made possible in part by the city’s large population of Hmong refugees. After fighting for the CIA during the Vietnam War, the Hmong were violently driven to refugee … Read Full Article
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Hmong American Peace Academy Focuses On Helping Students ‘Achieve the American Dream’
After visiting refugee camps in Thailand with her husband, Chris Her-Xiong said she wanted to find a way to give back and help the children specifically. “We saw disparity, we saw young girls being sold as prostitutes, we saw children not having the … Read Full Article
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Refugees make community a better place
It was around Christmas. It was cold, with lots of snow on the ground, and a Hmong family moved in across the street. They moved here from a refugee camp in Thailand – never seen snow and never felt the cold of a Montana winter. I got to help them shovel … Read Full Article
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Refugees make Missoula a better town
It was around Christmas. It was cold, with lots of snow on the ground, and a Hmong family moved in across the street. They moved here from a refugee camp in Thailand – never seen snow and never felt the cold of a Montana winter. I got to help them shovel … Read Full Article
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Gianforte condemns refugee resettlement as Congolese family arrives in Missoula
The average processing time is about three years. “We’ve admitted hundreds of thousands of refugees since the 1980s in the U.S. going back to the Hmong and Vietnamese,” she said. “These are the people feeling the violence, not perpetrating the violence. Read Full Article
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First Congolese refugees touch down in Missoula
The IRC was here in the late 1970s and early 1980s to help Hmong refugees from Laos start new lives. It gave way to the Lao Family Community, which morphed into the Refugee Assistance Center that helped bring a smaller wave of Russians to town starting in … Read Full Article
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First Congolese refugees touch down
The IRC was here in the late 1970s and early 1980s to help Hmong refugees from Laos start new lives. It gave way to the Lao Family Community, which morphed into the Refugee Assistance Center that helped bring a smaller wave of Russians to town starting in … Read Full Article
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Obama visit will ‘basically’ normalize relations with Laos
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. The refugee population includes former residents of the Laotian lowlands as well as the Hmong, whose Vietnam War-era assistance for the CIA and U.S. Special Forces in the country’s mountainous regions made them … Read Full Article
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Portland Tribune: Portland’s poor welcome: report finds immigrants, refugees more educated but worse off
But Lee Po Cha knows differently. A Hmong refugee from Laos almost 40 years ago, Lee is now the executive director of Portland’s Immigrant & Refugee Coalition Organization (IRCO). He has seen the waves of refugees from Asia, the Soviet Union, Africa and … Read Full Article
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From Refugee Camps To The Statehouse: Two Groundbreaking Primary Victories In Minnesota
His victory over veteran incumbent Rep. Joe Mullery (D) was considered something of an upset. In an interview with the Hmong Times, Lee said that part of what motivated his decision to run is his desire to “help marginalized communities to engage in … Read Full Article
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Eyes of the world examining refugee resettlement in Missoula
In her short stay, Wulfhorst needed to find the right people and hope they were willing to talk to her. Most of them are from a Hmong community that began arriving in Montana as refugees from Thailand after their native Laos fell to communist forces in 1975. Read Full Article
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Missoula prepares for refugee family
“We actually have a fair amount of experience with non-English speaking students in term of distant history, both the Hmong refugees and the Russian refugees impacted the district and we worked to accommodate these populations as they transitioned into our … Read Full Article
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Omar victory recalls another ‘first’ for a woman from a refugee camp
She was five. After spending time in Thailand’s refugee camps, the family emigrated to the United States, she went to college, earned a law degree, and moved to Minnesota where she became the first Hmong American woman elected to a Legislature in 2002 … Read Full Article