Yoko and Paul Nakamura honored their son Paul.

role in the Viet-nam War and the subsequent mass resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in America from the 1970s to the early 1990s.This chartered flight is the first mass deportation flight to South-east Asia since 2020 under the first Trump Administration.

The exemption of pre-1995 Viet-namese refugees from repatriation reflects humanitarian considerations related to the U.We were treated like animals without human rights.Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deporta-tion.The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily those of The Rafu Shimpo.

They contributed to the fabric of Ameri-can society in many positive ways.

Despite international refugee laws that promise non-refoulement.and was a long-time employee at St.

He has served on the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Executive Administration Committee since 2020 and is the SCAG Regional Council District 23 representative.She also served as the field deputy to Sheriff Alex Villanueva from 2021 to 2022.

as Assembly consultant to the California speaker.he was re-elected in 2015 and served as mayor in 2014-2015 and 2018-2019.