WASHINGTON _Two of Republicans' leading voices on foreign affairs are questioning the Trump administration's moves to deport thousands of Vietnamese refugees, a policy that would reverberate particularly strongly in California.
California Rep. Ed Royce, the outgoing House Foreign Affairs Chairman, and his successor, Rep. Mike McCaul of Texas, sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday saying they were "deeply concerned by reports of a new administration policy to deport certain Vietnamese-Americans who have lived in the United States for longer than 23 years."
Noting it would be "a departure from prior policy," they asked the two Cabinet officials for more information about who this new policy would apply to and how it would affect diplomatic relations with Vietnam.