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THE HMONG AN INTRODUCTION TO THEIR HISTORY AND CULTURE CULTURE PROFILE

The community as a whole has achieved remarkable progress.	Introduction In December 2003, the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok announced that a large group of Lao Hmong living at Wat Tham Krabok, a temple complex 80 miles north of Bangkok, would be considered for resettlement in the United States. The decision to resettle the Hmong was applauded by U.S. refugee advocacy groups, who had become concerned about conditions at the temple and the possibility that the Thai government would send the Hmong back to Laos. The Hmong at Wat Tham Krabok are the last large group of Vietnam War-era refugees remaining in Southeast Asia. Their resettlement represents the final phase of a relief and resettlement program that began in 1975, when hundreds of thousands of refugees fled Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia after the fall of U.S.-supported governments there. The Hmong from Wat Tham Krabok will be joining large and well-established Hmong communities in the United States. More than 186,000 Hmong men, women, and children live in the United States, according to the 2000 U.S. Census.1 While Hmong live throughout the United States, the majority are clustered in communities in three states: California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

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[injin]

Wat Tum Krabok is a famous drug de-tox facility and many opiate addicted Hmong originally settled there , followed by their families and other relations. Eventually the population reached overwhelming numbers . But what really set the Thai Gov against their Hmong guests is that they found the Hmong were key players in the massive methamphetamine / yah-bah trade. There are good and noble Hmong and there are very evil and corrupt Hmong. The bad ones will bring the worst of the SEA drug trade qualities wherever they go. Local law enforcement should not go easy on these people , or they will never get control. Any Hmong that get busted for these sorts of crimes should be immediately deported directly back to Laos , not Thailand.
The threat of that fate would really keep them in line , because the Lao still kill them in the hills.One of the worst factors affecting young Hmong in America is that the youth listen to non-stop gangsta rap music and then want to imitate their criminal role models . They will take what they are impressed by to even greater depravity in order to
try to me more like 'Americans'...give me a break....