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As a refugee, Lynn Le landed at Camp Pendleton among thousands of mothers and fathers clutching their children, desperately searching for a sign that at last they would be safe in America, far from Communist persecution at the end of the Vietnam War. Her father, Phong Le, held her close to his side.
The 2017 citywide elections were indeed a watershed moment in New Orleans politics, just as I predicted in my column posted on Election Eve . We not only got our first woman mayor, which was a foregone conclusion, but we also got our first Asian and Hispanic council members .
A Massachusetts doctoral student is trying to force the CIA to open up about how it uses jokes on social media. A Massachusetts doctoral student is trying to force the CIA to open up about how it uses jokes on social media.
A bill that would have let communists legally work in California government was withdrawn Wednesday after the sponsor said he learned it caused veterans and Vietnamese-Americans "distress and hurt." Assemblyman Rob Bonta, a Democrat from the San Francisco Bay Area, announced he was shelving the bill and apologized to veterans and people who fled the communist regime in Vietnam.
More than 100 Vietnamese American community members gathered in Orange County Saturday, rallying around state Sen. Janet Nguyen , who was removed from the Senate floor Feb. 23 after attempting to speak out against the late Sen. Tom Hayden, an anti-Vietnam War activist. They demanded Senate Democrats apologize to the community and to Nguyen for the incident, which will be investigated by a three-person panel designated by Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Leon last week.
In this photo taken Oct. 20, 2016, Ly Truong Xuan, 72, watches as his wife Kim Ha-Ly, 67, makes Ca phe da in their Woodbridge, Va. Vietnamese and other Asian-Americans have shifted from being majority Republican supporters to overwhelmingly Democrat.
Here's the one thing Democratic politicians should fear more than any other potential California event: Latinos stay home from the polls in droves on Election Day in November 2016. It went almost unnoticed beyond Orange County in early 2015, but the events in one contest for a spot on that county's Board of Supervisors should be most instructive.