Children of Vietnam War servicemen seek U.S. citizenship

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Few have a clue what these people have went through. Speaking English is NOT a requirement for a child of an American serviceman. This is just another example of our countries failure to take responsibility for our actions in Viet Nam.

There's a movie called "The Beautiful Country" that is about a bui doi man who makes it to America to look for his father:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273108/

Thanks for the post Steven.

I'll check it out. Thank you.

[peejay 327]

Just another example of why our immigration / citizenship laws are archaic and need to be modernized to the 21st Century. We have children born to illegal aliens and birth tourists shopping for citizenship that are considered to be citizens automatically because they are born over US dirt (but have no cultural ties to our country). Almost all modernized 1st world, industrialized democratic welfare states discontinued this insane policy for obvious reasons long ago. The USA is still stuck back in the 19th and 20th centuries on that issue. And here we have foreign born fatherless children claiming to be born to American parent, but the American parent is conveniently missing, cannot be located, and does not claim the child. We're supposed to automatically give these people US citizenship because they "don't look Vietnamese or Korean"? Talk about racial profiling! OMG...they "look" American. Is there a DNA test for American paternity? No? Well I guess that leaves them meeting citizenship requirements just like any other immigrant. And meeting English proficiency and all the other cumbersome things required to be naturalized. But we should just lower our standards because they "look" American? Right? To do otherwise is just mean...and we don't want to be mean, so we'll let everyone that "looks" American automatically be US citizens.

Maybe if they want to be British, French, or German citizens they can claim their long lost daddy was a journalist covering the war? Maybe that's why they "look" British, French, or German. Do you think those governments would buy into that logic? I don't.

Edited October 11, 2008 by peejay

[mawilson 2,133]

Randy Tran, an Amerasian whose father was a U.S. soldier and who was abandoned by his Vietnamese mother, lives in Hayward, Calif., and travels the country singing at restaurants and concert halls.

"Randy Tran"? LOL

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Randy Tran, an Amerasian whose father was a U.S. soldier and who was abandoned by his Vietnamese mother, lives in Hayward, Calif., and travels the country singing at restaurants and concert halls.

"Randy Tran"? LOL

lol

[Teacher Mark 53]

Randy Tran, an Amerasian whose father was a U.S. soldier and who was abandoned by his Vietnamese mother, lives in Hayward, Calif., and travels the country singing at restaurants and concert halls.

"Randy Tran"? LOL

Here's his cousin Mỹ Dung:

Edited October 12, 2008 by Joe Six-Pack