Word: amerasian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of their parentage, many of these children--long abandoned by their fathers--are nothing less than outcasts in their own society. In Vietnam, for example--where estimates of the number of these "half-breeds" range from 7,000 to 20,000--an Amerasian is ineligible to attend public school, get a job, or even hold a ration card. A top official has branded them as "bad elements...
...Stewart B. McKinney (R-Conn) has been concerned about the plight of Amerasians for years. In 1979, he introduced legislation that would ease the restrictions on Amerasians coming to the United States. That bill faltered, but McKinney is trying again, and this time it appears he may have a chance of succeeding. The Amerasian immigration Act--submitted last year--would significantly increase the chances for an abandoned child to come to the United States. The bill would specifically raise the immigration status of the Americans from "non-preferential" to higher categories, classifying them, for example, as sons and daughters...
...bill does not set up any quotas, it does not raise the number of people coming to America--certainly prickly subjects today. What it does do, as McKinney has said, is "simply place the Amerasian in has or her proper preference classification based on their legitimate claim as a chile of a U.S. citizen." In other words, Amerasians would be placed on the top of the pile of aspiring immigrants--were they rightfully belong...