In 1975 , the U.S. Congress and the Ford administration enacted the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act , which permitted about 130,000 natives of Cambodia , Laos , and South Vietnam to be admitted to the United States as refugees . It is important to note that the Cambodian refugees were fleeing from genocide that was orchestrated by the communist Khmer Rouge government
genocide
Cambodian genocide
Deportation of Cambodian refugees from the United States