PIVOT Statement on the Nomination of Kamala Harris for Vice President of the United States

PIVOT Statement on the Nomination of Kamala Harris for Vice President of the United States

August 13, 2020

For many of us in PIVOT who are immigrants or children of immigrants, the news that Senator Kamala Harris, the daughter of an Indian immigrant and a Jamaican immigrant, has been chosen as the Democratic Party’s nominee for Vice President of the United States, is nothing short of astonishing and inspiring.

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U.S. CONGRESSIONAL RECORDS: JOE BIDEN WELCOMED VIETNAMESE REFUGEES TO THE UNITED STATES

U.S. CONGRESSIONAL RECORDS: JOE BIDEN WELCOMED VIETNAMESE REFUGEES TO THE UNITED STATES

Vietnamese version: 06-26-2020
English version: 07-19-2020
Khai Q Nguyen, PIVOT Member

The 2020 election season is boiling up. There are less than four months left before the U.S. presidential election on November 3. Joe Biden will be the official Democratic presidential candidate. Therefore, in recent days, President Trump's supporters have fabricated and spread the news that Mr. Biden was against Vietnamese refugees in the mid-1970s in order to get Vietnamese-American votes for Mr. Trump. Since Mr. Biden had been a very young senator at the age of 30, just barely old enough to hold the office, a review of Congressional records will probably tell you what the truth is. This will also be a good opportunity to review laws on the evacuation and relief of Vietnamese refugees and related news in the 1970s.

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