Trumps Push to deport Vietnamese in California may be the death knell of the Republican Party There

[Hekate]

16. Orange County has a large Vietnamese immigrant/refugee population, & they've been loyal Repubs...

...for pretty much the same reason the Cubans have been: the anti-communist history of the party.

One of the GOP honchos quoted in the LA Times article about this insane new policy said that Trump was "shoveling dirt on the grave of the California Republican Party." Well, yeah.

It took awhile for it to sink in to me that by targeting those who came before 1994, Trump and his racist xenophobic white nationalist buddies are targeting the very refugees who fled the communist regime after the Fall of Saigon -- people who had helped the US military and believed what the US said about taking care of them by letting them into the US.

People like Thuy, who was one of my first friends in California when I moved here in late 1978. She and her husband got out of Saigon with their infant twins on the last boat out -- he made it aboard because he was an officer in the Vietnamese military and worked closely with Americans. They moved to Orange County years ago and we lost touch...

Whatever we think of that war, there are people we OWE. We owe Hmong and Vietnamese who trusted our word, just like we owe our own veterans. Gods know our government has been less than perfect in that regard, but I have a sick sick feeling that once again Trump is going to ensure that Uncle Sam's word is worthless in the eyes of the world.