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'The US has no obligation': Biden fought to keep Vietnamese refugees who had helped the U.S. during the war out of the US washex.am/2Jm3U2V
As a senator, the future vice president, now 76, was adamant that the U.S. had "no obligation, moral or otherwise, to evacuate foreign nationals," dismissing concerns for their safety as the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong swept south toward Saigon in 1975.
His position was in stark contrast to the one he took nearly 30 years later over Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who had worked with U.S. forces. "We owe these people," his then top foreign policy adviser Tony Blinken said in 2012.
"We have a debt to these people. They put their lives on the line for the United States."
Biden said in 2015 that keeping Syrian refugees out of the US would be a win for ISIS and tweeted that "we must protect, support, and welcome refugees" to maintain the promise of America.
Biden said in 2015 that keeping Syrian refugees out of the US would be a win for ISIS and tweeted that "we must protect, support, and welcome refugees" to maintain the promise of America.
