1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hmong and Lao Refugee Deportation Prohibition Act of 2020 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Since 1975, nearly 200,000 refugees from the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao P.D.R), including persons of Hmong, Lao, Khmu, and Mien or Yao descent, have resettled in the U.S. as permanent residents or become citizens. (2) Beginning in the 1950s in Laos, Hmong soldiers fought the Communist Pathet Lao movement, and many Hmong and Lao later assisted U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. (3) The House Judiciary Committee reported in 2000, At great personal peril and loss of life, the Hmong fought with American forces and performed critical roles in dangerous missions. . (4) A former CIA officer stated to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims that, [t]hroughout the war, CIA’s paramilitary forces collected intelligence, used it in combat operations to tie down some 50,000 North Vietnamese forces in Laos, rescued downed American pilots and protected sensitive American installations at remote mountain tops … . (5) Public Law 106–207, the Hmong Veterans Naturalization Act of 2000, provided thousands of Hmong refugees resettled to the U.S. who served with a special guerrilla unit, or irregular forces, operating from a base in Laos in support of the United States military at any time during the period beginning February 28, 1961, and ending September 18, 1978, with exemptions from certain provisions of the Immigration and Naturalization Act. (6) In 2000, it was reported by the House Judiciary Committee in Report 106–563 that many Hmong refugees have found it difficult to naturalize because of a difficulty learning English. This is due to the facts that they came from a tribal society without a written language until recent decades and that many Hmong were recruited to be guerrillas at the age of 12–14 and hence did not attend school. . (7) Scholars argue that the U.S. insufficiently resettled refugees from Laos leaving many ill-prepared for immediate work,