Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel in Detroit, Michigan, have detained 16 Hmong and Lao refugees. Those refugees, many of whom have lived in the U.S. for decades, are now facing deportation ...

LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand one night in May 1975. At the time of their escape, it ...

ST. PAUL — U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota wrote a letter of opposition recently to U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo after learning of what she said was the Trump administration’s work to ...

The last time Mai Chue Xiong heard from her husband was more than four years ago, when he called her from jail after he was deported from the family's hideout in Bangkok. Thailand had made a ...

The partner of a Hmong American mother of five deported to Laos said Tuesday she is trying to figure out where to go, and what to do, in the country, even though she has never been there and doesn't ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — The U.N. refugee agency is concerned about Thailand’s recent repatriation of a small group of ethnic Hmong to Laos because of reports that they were sent back involuntarily, a ...

The story of a Milwaukee-area Hmong American woman who was deported to Laos, a country she has never visited, has resonated with readers. Ma Yang, 37, a nail technician and mother of five who has ...

Since 1975, nearly 200,000 Hmong and Lao refugees have started new lives in the U.S. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, the heroism of Hmong veterans who fought with U.S. forces during the Vietnam War is not ...

Close to 400 Lao Hmong were repatriated to Laos from a camp in northern Thailand on Thursday. UNHCR was unable to observe the return process as it has not been granted access. We have no information ...

GENEVA, December 28 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres appealed to the Thai government on Monday to immediately halt its ongoing forced return of some 4,000 Lao Hmong to the ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Leaders of 8,000 ethnic Hmong in a makeshift camp in Thailand vowed on Monday to fight deportation to communist-run Laos, where they say they will be tortured because their ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will not use force to deport any Hmong to Laos, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Wednesday, after a group of refugees battled police and soldiers trying to return ...