After we left Vietnam The US accepted 180,000 Hmong refugees

[flotsam]

I suggest congress should tell the president that if he continues allowing Turkey to engage in genocide they will pass a bipartisan bill to allow a minimum of half a million Kurdish refugees to settle in the US. I'll bet he sends the troops back in rather than face people he tried to betray as a new voting block...

[Liberty Belle]

1. Some would be welcome in our area, San Diego's East County.

There are already quite a few Kurdish refugees here and also a Kurdish rights center in El Cajon.

[Archae]

2. A lot of the Hmong settled here in Wisconsin...

Sheboygan (my town) has a lot of 'em.

I like especially how some of them have converted a few empty lots into well-tended food-producing gardens.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Here, too (Minneapolis-St. Paul).

A group of Hmong farmers is using a very large plot of land south of St. Paul to grow many different kinds of vegetables that they sell at farmers' markets and to local grocers and restaurants. Each family has an area allocated to them, and each of those plots has a shed or hut where they keep their equipment. They always seem to have the best-looking produce at the markets, and they have adapted very well to farming practices and crops that are drastically different from their home country.

[Paka]

4. They also deserted a lot of them in Laos.

[flotsam]

5. The Hmong started supporting the US in 1961

and continued throughout the war. They deserved better as do the Kurds.

[fierywoman]

6. We in the Seattle area owe a lot of our beautiful flowers at the farmers markets

to the Hmong who settled here.

[SeattleVet]

7. Vegetables, too.

At Pike Place Market it's mainly flowers, but at the neighborhood Farmer's Markets they do more veggies, along with the flowers.

The Kurds deserve the same level of respect and protection, as they have also been staunch allies.

[a kennedy]

8. Their glorious vegetables and cut flower arrangements at the farmers

markets, look like beautiful works of art.

[MineralMan]

9. Most of my St. Paul, MN neighbors are Hmong.

My neighborhood is popular with Hmong families, who are buying houses that go up for sale quickly. Theirs is a very good success story.

Right now, there is a campaign sign in my front yard for a Hmong City Council candidate.