As a freshman senator in 1975, Joe Biden joined Sen. Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.) in opposing legislation allowing 130,000 Vietnam War refugees asylum in the United States, including thousands of children.
President Gerald Ford proposed a Vietnam refugee relief program that would settle thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodian families in the United States. The bill was met with resistance from a Democratic majority in Congress. Sen. Byrd cited fear of admitting "undesirables" such as "barmaids, prostitutes, and criminals" to the country.
Biden also took issue with Ford's proposal. During a Foreign Relations Committee hearing with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Biden announced his concern with welcoming the refugees, charging that the Senate had not been informed of the number of refugees that the White House intended to offer safe harbor to.
Many of the refugees escaped communist rule and mass murder in Vietnam and Cambodia on leaky fishing boats. Thousands of these boat people, as they were called, died due to piracy, starvation, and drowning.
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He hooked up with one of the biggest racists of American modern history to deny life through acceptance by immigration as they were being hunted down by Pol Pot and Viet Nam's thought police. Many of these people had been promised asylum by the U.S. government, but were turned away in droves as the U.S. evacuated its personnel.
Biden sees minorities as pawns. He'll say anything to get your vote, then never follow through with promises. Hillary did the same thing, but even more shamelessly, pandering to blacks without hesitation.
As he should have. Why the hell do we have to take all the POS of the world??
Boat people.
Cuban refugees.
Somila refugees.
Muslim refugees.
Ever wonder when AMERICA started going down hill?? Began in 1979 with taking in all the Cubans. Castro emptied all his prison's and mental hospitals. Sent those POS here. Peanut Carter took them all in.
He's just another stain on human history. He'll barely be a footnote.
Just one more of his flip flops. He can't even remember who he is or where he is. How is he supposed to remember what he stood for in the past? He is nursing home material.
Birds of a feather, Joe and Hanoi Jane (she being 5 years his SENIOR) - well whaddya know.
1:21 PM - People have said the same thing about the Irish, the Italians, the Polish, the Germans, the Chinese, the Indians, the Portuguese and pretty much everybody who didn't have an Anglo surname.
If not for them we'd mostly all be blue eyed and blond, just the way you might like it.
That's a LIE. This country was built by all ethnic backgrounds. Do you see the Irish, italian, Polish, German coming here in the thousands today?? NO!! When they did come. Did they suck the life out of our country?? NO!! So you don't know WTF you're talking about. But as usual. Libutards don't research because their BULLSHIT argument NEVER HOLD UP. Maybe you should learn some of our history??
Always keep your mouth shut to let people think you're a FOOL. Instead of opening it to prove it!!!
He has selective memory of what he has done in 40 plus years, it may be real but it’s also convenient. I would like to see a trial for him & Hunter—this nation will not forget it is not like the statues torn down. History is history can we spell collusion?
The only thing he ever did right. The boat people should have been kept out of America. More violation of our laws and the democrats refuse to enforce the laws of OUR country. Which should be illegal for them to do.
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