
I’m a Vietnamese refugee. We are proud to speak the language of our new home as all immigrants should
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Vietnamese-American supports Trump's executive order making English the official U.S. language, citing his family's experience overcoming language barriers.
Tony Pham serves as senior fellow for Homeland Security and Immigration policy at the America First Policy Institute. Pham served as the acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement during President Donald Trump’s first term and subsequently as the assistant secretary for Border Security and Immigration Policy under President Trump’s second term. He and his family escaped Vietnam in April 1975, at the end of the war in Vietnam.
However, like many, we were faced with complex systems, unfamiliar schools and an employment market that required English proficiency. In our quest to assimilate into American culture and earn our citizenship, mastering the English language was necessary to foster a sense of belonging, unity and collective American identity.













