1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Honor Our Commitment Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) From April to September 1975, the United States conducted Operation New Arrival to relocate 130,000 Vietnamese refugees to the United States following the end of the Vietnam War. During this time, more than 50,000 Vietnamese refugees were processed through Camp Pendleton for resettlement in southern California. (2) In the 4 decades since they fled Vietnam as refugees, Vietnamese Americans have woven their stories into the American fabric. (3) The largest concentrations of Vietnamese Americans can be found in Orange County, California, followed by San Jose (California), Houston (Texas), Seattle (Washington), Northern Virginia, and New Orleans (Louisiana). (4) According to the American Community Survey, 1.4 million Americans speak Vietnamese at home, the fourth-most-common language other than English. (5) Immigrants may find it difficult to assimilate into their new communities as a result of the trauma of war. A 2018 study published by Rashmi Gangamma and Daran Shipman in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy noted that the traumatic nature of (an immigrant’s) forced displacement flight, and resettlement can increase vulnerability to mental distress. First generation immigrant children are especially vulnerable to gang violence when their parents find it difficult to navigate their new communities culturally and politically. (6) In 2008, the United States and Vietnam signed a bilateral repatriation agreement, hereinafter known as the 2008 Vietnam-U.S. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). (7) According to section 2, article 2 of the 2008 Vietnam-U.S. MOU, Vietnamese citizens are not subject to return to Vietnam under this Agreement if they arrived in the United States before July 12, 1995, the date on which diplomatic relations were re-established between the U.S. Government and the Vietnamese Government. The U.S. Government and the Vietnamese Government maintain their respective legal