ICYF from March 2, 1975: "Wide Hostility Found To Vietnamese Influx" nytimes.com/1975/05/02/arc… THREAD 1/
"The arrival in the last few days of the first thousands of South Vietnamese refugees to be resettled in this recession hobbled country has set off a groundswell of controversy." 2/
"Some of those hostile to the newcomers seem to be just weary of the whole long American involvement in things Vietnamese and eager to shut the door on the unhappy past. Others voice fears of epidemics of Asian diseases." 3/
"A few, however irrationally, see those fleeing Communism as a Communist threat... But the vast majority of those opposed to the resettlement express concern about the economic impact at a time when the country already has an unemployment rate of 8.7 per cent." 4/ END THREAD
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