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Upcoming Event: Townhall Meeting for Amerasians in Dallas, TX |
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Townhall meeting with Representative from the Office of Congresswoman Kay Granger
| | Date: Tue. August 1st, 2006 Time: 6PM Location: Phu Lam Restaurant (inside Vietnam Plaza Shopping Center) Address: 4125 E. Belknap St., Haltom City, TX 76111 For more info. about this event, click here.
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Dear visitors,
Welcome to the official web site of Amerasian Citizenship Initiative (ACI).
We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit group of U.S. citizens that seek to restore hope and dignity to some 20,000 underserved, unrecognized sons and daughters of America… The Amerasians – children of America born during the Vietnam War. Through this site we will coordinate and report our campaign efforts across the country in order to raise awareness and gather public support for the Amerasian issue.
In addition, the site, we hope, will provide resources for concerned citizens to spread the word and support public policies designed to appropriately address the needs of these underrepresented, underserved fellow Americans. For more information about the Amerasian issue and our campaign, please click here. |
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The Living Hell of Amerasians |
By Michael Benge
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 22, 2005 Shunned by much of society, denied access to land, forced to work in degrading conditions, treated as virtual slaves, and routinely abused at the hands of the police and of a privileged class who enjoy the state's protection, Amerasians (mixed-race) live deplorable lives under the communist regime in Vietnam.
Amerasians bore the brunt of the Vietnamese communists’ hatred toward America after their take over of South Vietnam in 1975. Used and abused by the communist officials, beaten at will, debased, raped and forced into prostitution, Amerasians have suffered at the hands of Vietnamese communists. Many Amerasians were rounded up by the Vietnamese communists and sent to concentration camps, where they were forced to de-activate mines with nothing more than a knife. According to one internee, only two out of eight in his section survived, six were blown up one by one in the minefields. They were told that they had to harvest what their fathers had sown; however, many of the mines were those sown by the communists themselves. |
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Town Hall Meeting Energizes Orange County Amerasians |
Westminster, California – At a community gathering on Sunday February 29, Quoc Viet, a well-known singer in Orange County, made an emotional appeal to the US government on behalf of his fellow Amerasians: grant citizenship to all Amerasians brought “home” to America since 1988.
That year Congress passed the Amerasians Homecoming Act to resettle children of American servicemen left behind in Vietnam as the war ended. Born out of wedlock and abandoned by their American fathers, most of these Amerasian children ended up in the street because their Vietnamese mothers could not afford to raise them or could not bear the shame—the traditional Vietnamese society accorded little sympathy to the Amerasians and their families. |
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Rep. Lofgren Introduces Amerasian Naturalization Act |
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June 1, 2005 (Washington, DC) – Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San
Jose) Thursday introduced H.R. 2687, the Amerasian Naturalization Act,
to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for equal
treatment of Amerasians relative to American citizenship.
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is no doubt that Amerasians are the sons and daughters of American
fathers. Our American government already made that determination
when we admitted them to the United States as legal permanent
residents,” said Rep. Lofgren. “These individuals have lived through
devastation during war, have been mistreated by their governments
because of their mixed race and many now live in the United States, but
only as legal permanent residents. Now is the time to treat them
as the U.S. citizens they are and give them the equality they
deserve.” |
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 Former American POW and human rights activist Michael Benge recently wrote an article titled "The Living Hell of Amerasians" to raise another voice of justice for the Amerasian struggle. And we can't thank him enough for his support!
Tuan Le (picture in courtesy of www.tin360.com) most likely, will not be deported back to Vietnam. He, however, will never have the opportunity to become a U.S. citizen like his U.S. Marine father due to some legal holes in our current judiciary system. But for now, Tuan can use his case to stand up for his Amerasian fellows to achieve something they all want to - finally be recognized as U.S. citizens, sons and daughters of America. His case, we believe, could help profile this painful but often ignored issue and strengthen the Amerasian naturalization campaign in many ways. |
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