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Vietnamese boat people (Vietnamese: Thuyền nhân Việt Nam) were refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This migration and humanitarian crisis was at its highest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but continued well into the early 1990s.
Operation New Life (23 April – 1 November 1975) was the care and processing on Guam of Vietnamese refugees evacuated before and after the Fall of Saigon, the closing day of the Vietnam War. More than 111,000 of the evacuated 130,000 Vietnamese refugees were transported to Guam, where they were housed in tent cities for a few weeks while being ...
South Vietnamese refugees arrive on a U.S. Navy vessel during Operation Frequent Wind.. In spring 1975, the armies of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong advanced rapidly southward and by early April the defeat and occupation of South Vietnam by the north was nearly certain.
The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, passed on May 23, 1975, under President Gerald Ford, was a response to the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Under this act, approximately 130,000 refugees from South Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia were allowed to enter the United States under a special status, and the act allotted ...
Council of Churches of the Ozarks established a refugee resettlement program in 1975 to assist Vietnamese families settling in Springfield.
The bill was passed with much greater support than Vietnam Humanitarian Assistance and Evacuation Act with only 2 senators dissenting on May 23, 1975 and allocated $455 million “for the performance of functions set forth in Migration and Refugee Assistance Act.” [5]
On April 30, 1975, Thanh Duong scaled the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam. Vietnamese American refugees who witnessed fall of Saigon urge U.S. to accept more Afghans Skip ...
Operation New Arrivals (April 29 – September 16, 1975) was the relocation of 130,000 Vietnamese refugees from Pacific island staging areas to the United States.. Following the South-Vietnamese evacuation during the Fall of Saigon, Operation New Life, and Babylift at the end of the Vietnam War, refugees were relocated to the United States to begin assimilation and resettlement into American ...