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As a then-Senator, Joe Biden was adamant that the United States "had no obligation, moral or otherwise, to evacuate foreign nationals," according to the Washington Examiner.
Nearly 30 years later, this view seems to have changed when it comes to Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who have worked with the United States. “We owe it to these people,” Joe Biden's top policy adviser at the time, Tony Blinken, said in 2012. “We have a debt to these people. They spend their lives working for the United States. "
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Back in the Vietnam War in the spring of 1975, President Gerald Ford and the US government carried out the evacuation of thousands of South Vietnamese families who had supported the United States during that time.
However, the leading voice in the Senate against this rescue effort was then Senator Joe Biden. Mr. Biden was adamant that "the United States had no obligation to evacuate 1 or 100,001 South Vietnamese."
In April 1975, Mr. Ford argued that since the last American soldiers had been removed from Vietnam, the US should also evacuate the South Vietnamese who had helped the US.
“The United States has a tradition of opening its doors to immigrants from all nations… And we've always been a humanitarian nation,” said Mr. Ford. "Some South Vietnamese deserve a chance to live in freedom."
But Fuck Joe Biden Flag objected and called for a meeting between the president and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to deny that Henry Kissinger, the secretary of state chairing the meeting, told the senators that "the total number of people" was more than a million people. . are in danger in Vietnam, of which about 174,000 are on the 'absolute' list not to be abandoned”.
Mr. Biden said that US allies should not be rescued: "We should only focus on getting American troops out. It is completely different to get the Vietnamese out and provide military support to the Vietnamese government. ."
Kissinger said that "there are Vietnamese people for whom we have a responsibility," but Biden replied, "I would vote for any money to get Americans out. I don't want to mix that with putting people out. Vietnam out."
Mr. Ford was angered by Mr. Biden's response, believing that not evacuating the South Vietnamese was a betrayal of American values: "We opened the door to the Hungarians ... Our tradition... I am welcoming to the oppressed. I don't 'don' 'don't think these people should be treated differently from anyone else - Hungarians, Cubans, Jews from the Soviet Union."
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, by a vote of 14 to 3, recommended the Senate pass the bill. Mr. Biden was one of three senators who voted against. Finally, the bill also passed the Senate with 46-17 votes in favor, with Mr. Biden again voting against.
When Saigon fell on April 30, 1975, there were still hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese who could not escape abroad and were sent to re-education camps.
Julia Taft, head of the Interagency Task Force on the Resettlement of Indochinese Refugees in 1975, told NPR in 2007 that refugees should be helped. “I mean they worked with us,” she said. “They are translators. They are employees. They were part of the South Vietnamese army, our allies, and the common victims of this whole chaos.”
Despite the objections of Mr. Biden and other Democratic leaders at the time, the US military evacuated more than 130,000 Vietnamese refugees just before the fall of South Vietnam, and hundreds of thousands others have to relocate. were resettled in the United States in the following years.
One of these refugees is Pham Quang, who wrote his 2010 autobiography, "Sense of Responsibility: Our Journey from Vietnam to America," about fleeing Vietnam. . came to the United States in 1975 at the age of 10 with his mother and three older sisters, 11, 6, and 2. His father, a member of the South Vietnamese army, did not accompany them and stayed for more than a decade. education camp. . before coming to the US in 1992.
Speaking to the Washington Examiner, Pham praised Ford for saving Vietnamese refugees like his family and criticized Democrats like Biden for trying to stop it. “When we need help, I remember who helped us and who didn't,” said Mr. Pham.
Pham later joined the Marines and served in the First Gulf War, stating that “Vietnamese refugees since 1975 have received a lot of help from Americans living near the islands. refugee camps and veterans.
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