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When Jerry Brown Rejected Vietnamese Refugees
Cinnamon Stillwell's Blog ^
| 6/10/10
| Cinnamon Stillwell
Posted on 06/10/2010 7:54:57 PM PDT by SmithL
As if we needed another reason not to vote for retread California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, I just learned via a BookTV talk by former South Vietnamese, and now American, U.S. Marine veteran and author Quang Pham that Brown tried to block Vietnamese refugees from settling in California when he was governor in the 1970s. At the same time, he's always been soft on illegal immigration from Mexico and South America and friendly to Castro and Cuba. So one can surmise that the left-leaning Brown didn't want the Vietnamese refugees to settle in California because they were anti-Communists (and with good reason).
Here's a snippet from a Silicon Valley Mercury News article titled, "After the fall: Vietnamese remember 'Black April' 35 years later":
By Christmas of 1975, an estimated 130,000 Vietnamese refugees had been sponsored by churches and families who provided them with new homes in the United States. According to an article in Vietnam magazine, an American publication, the only state that initially resisted the influx of boat people was California, where Jerry Brown was then in his first term as governor. Brown's administration reportedly attempted to prevent planes loaded with refugees from landing at Travis Air Force Base.
Brown received a stinging rebuke from White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, who had photographed the evacuation. According to the article, Kennerly said Brown had "no compassion for your fellow human beings."
Four years later, while positioning himself for a presidential bid, Brown created a task force to help boat people find homes in the state. A spokesman for his current campaign for governor, Sterling Clifford, declined to comment on Brown's previous positions.
Judging from comments left on online articles and threads on the subject, Brown won't be receiving the votes of California's substantial Vietnamese-American community. They have a long memory.
TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: jerrybrown; moonbeam; refugees; seenthelight; trustnoneofem; vietnam
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posted on
06/10/2010 7:54:57 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: Cool Guy; CounterCounterCulture; Arkat Kingtroll; pbear8; Jerez2; SunStar; Mr. Jeeves; ...
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posted on
06/10/2010 7:55:53 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(Don't blame me, I voted for DeVore!)
To: SmithL
Thank you for this wonderful information; as an American-Vietnamese it really painful to learn that some of these leftist do not embrace those us legal refugee; while they willing to bend over backward for illegal immigrant these days. With regard to Brown created some type of program for boat people, I can say it only to buy vote. Liberal is good at pulling these kind of trick toward minority people; just like what Loretta Sanchez is doing in 47th District throughout each election cycle.
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posted on
06/10/2010 8:03:06 PM PDT
by
dhuynh73
(Reagan Country)
To: SmithL
The 60’s re-tread is a friggin joke.
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posted on
06/10/2010 8:11:18 PM PDT
by
ExTexasRedhead
(Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
To: SmithL
Ooooooh, that is going to leave a mark on the Brown campaign. Now Brown can be labeled a racist as the dimoKKKRATS like to play the race card all the time. A little Karma for Jerry.
To: dhuynh73
I remember when Jerry was Gov. the first time. What a disaster.
Tens of thousands of Vietnamese and others after the fall of Siagon were brought here to San Diego at Camp Pendleton.
I know a Vietnamese gentleman who hid from the Cong when a boy now is a Nuclear Engineer in San Diego
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:42:34 PM PDT
by
SoCalPol
(Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
To: SoCalPol
To my fellow conservative friends, I write this post tonight as an American-Vietnamese; I want to thanks this wonderful nation for giving the Vietnamese refugee a second to rebuilt and have a new life in this land of freedom. The Vietnamese refugee will forever remember the open hand of the U.S. government, thank you very much America.
Just like millions other families; my father was a victim of Viet Cong concentration camp; so I understand exactly what is like to live under a dictator regime. Unfortunately, we have a dictator in the White House along with an incompetent regime.
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posted on
06/10/2010 10:10:59 PM PDT
by
dhuynh73
(Reagan Country)
To: dhuynh73
We are glad you are here.
So many Vietnamese have gone on to higher education
and many Drs.
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posted on
06/10/2010 10:22:24 PM PDT
by
SoCalPol
(Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
To: dhuynh73
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posted on
06/10/2010 10:27:29 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!! Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America......)
To: dhuynh73
I live in the OC....suffering under that blithering idiot Sanchez....
I’m glad to live in an area with such a large Vietnamese population. True Americans, in every sense of the words.
I fly Old Glory on my house. Up and down the entire street where I live, only 2 other houses do the same....one a WWII vet....the other a Vietnamese family. It’s a shame—so many Americans don’t know what freedom really is...because they don’t know what it’s like to not have it.
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posted on
06/10/2010 10:36:55 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!! Be prepared for what's coming AFTER America......)
To: SmithL
Moonbeams was also a supporter of the Rev. Jim Jones.
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posted on
06/11/2010 4:07:15 AM PDT
by
stratman1969
(Regime Change Begins November 2, 2010)
To: Tigerized
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posted on
06/11/2010 9:28:11 AM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget. Never Again. (PursuingLiberty.com))
To: dhuynh73
I believe you are truly Vietnamese, so answer me this: So why do the so-called refugees, once they get US legal status, save their money and go back to Vietnam on Vacations and invest money there?
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posted on
06/11/2010 9:39:02 AM PDT
by
investigateworld
(Abortion stops a beating Heart)
To: investigateworld
For some instance they do have families that is either poor or unable to survived on their own they do need their families support from overseas, vacations is the terms that idiot have been using for a long time; certain people return to Vietnam to visit their love one still live in Vietnam; other to visit the grave of their ancestor. You may not like my answer so be it; but not only Vietnamese people doing this; however we are do enter the U.S. illegally then tried to gain U.S. legal status then create more problem for this country. Many people want to invest in Vietnam since the policy of this country and Vietnam is not being ban any longer; since doing business in the U.S. is so expensive and many cannot afford these kind of taxation without representation; these business people need to shift their business elsewhere. As you remember Obama want to enforce the policy of wealth redistribution and government constantly taking over one company after the other; now they even want to take over BP.
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posted on
06/11/2010 10:36:57 AM PDT
by
dhuynh73
(Reagan Country)
To: SmithL
Brown can be disposed of with one question: Where do you stand on drivers licenses for illegals?
No matter how liberal California goes, for some reason they join conservatives in opposing illegal immigration.
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posted on
06/11/2010 10:39:53 AM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: dhuynh73
As you remember Obama want to enforce the policy of wealth redistribution and government constantly taking over one company after the other; now they even want to take over BP. So let me get this straight: Obama is going to take all their money, so they need a fall back place to keep their money - in a Communist country?
And please don't get me wrong VN people No.#1 in my book. Why in one year along I made about $12,000 in overtime pay for investigating Vietnamese girls setting up their own family for robberies.
Good money back then.
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posted on
06/11/2010 10:47:49 AM PDT
by
investigateworld
(Abortion stops a beating Heart)
To: investigateworld
Vietnam is a communist country; but it being invested by other country throughout the world including the U.S. so to say that these business favor communist just non sense. With regard to these Vietnamese girls setting up their own family for robberies just like every other minority community there are bad apple, if these people commit the crime they need to do the crime. From your comment, I can conclude this you do not have a very positive feeling toward or the Vietnamese people. Spin all you want, it not going to fly. I've seen people like you all the time; but you are only a minority the rest of the American public are a different story.
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posted on
06/11/2010 10:54:11 AM PDT
by
dhuynh73
(Reagan Country)
To: dhuynh73
Facts are Facts: Neither you or I can change them.
If just one Communist Leader was assassinated by a VN Freedom fighter?
But why should they bother?
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posted on
06/11/2010 11:07:24 AM PDT
by
investigateworld
(Abortion stops a beating Heart)
To: dhuynh73; helpfulresearcher
This is the post I'm referring to. Ms.dhuynh was kind enough to confirm the drum beats I'm getting from other sources :^(
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posted on
06/13/2010 4:41:11 PM PDT
by
investigateworld
(Abortion stops a beating Heart)
To: SoCalPol
Never forget that line of people trying to get onto that last helicopter. Heartbreaking. Guess who voted to end that. Old Joe Biden.
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