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A '''refugee''' is a person who is immigrating to another [[country]] because of political or social turmoil within his or her own country.

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== Joe Biden's position ==

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In 1975, Senator [[Joe Biden]] was outspokenly opposed to a plan by President [[Gerald Ford]], after the fall of [[Saigon]] in 1975, to authorize funds to 175,000 [[Vietnam]]ese refugees. During a meeting on April 14, 1975, between Biden's Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the president, Biden said:

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{{cquote|I feel put upon in being presented an all-or-nothing number. I will vote for any amount for getting the Americans out. I don’t want it mixed with getting the Vietnamese out.}}

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Ford retorted that that “our tradition is to welcome the oppressed.”

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Biden responded again a week later:

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{{cquote|I do not believe the United States has an obligation, moral or otherwise, to evacuate foreign nationals.

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The United States has no obligation to evacuate one, or 100,001, South Vietnamese.}}

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Biden repeated his position while speaking at the funeral of the Democratic South Dakota Sen. George McGovern in 2012.

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== See also ==

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*[https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/21/biden-circa-1975-argued-against-evacuating-vietnamese-refugees/ Daily Caller]

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*[https://www.mediaite.com/news/flashback-biden-opposed-evacuating-vietnamese-after-saigons-fall/ Mediaite]

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