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.