1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Southeast Asian Deportation Relief Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) Millions of Southeast Asian Americans live in the United States, including 2,182,735 Vietnamese Americans, 338,637 Cambodian Americans, 254,304 Laotian Americans, and 326,843 Hmong Americans, according to the 2019 American Community Survey. Many of these communities arrived as refugees beginning over 40 years ago from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam in the aftermath of the wars in Southeast Asia (more commonly known as the Vietnam War ). (2) The United States intervened in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam between 1954 and 1975, to prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia through direct military interventions and covert and clandestine operations. (3) South Vietnam allied with the United States in opposition to the expansion of North Vietnam until the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. As a result of this service, many Vietnamese Americans to this day still suffer lasting trauma from the war, including post-traumatic stress disorder and exposure to Agent Orange. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and various agencies enlisted over 30,000 soldiers from Hmong, Lao, and Laotian ethnic groups in Laos as allies to aid United States forces in Southeast Asia, waging a 13-year covert operation called the Secret War against the Pathet Lao, Viet Cong, and Northern Vietnamese Army. (4) The United States heavily bombed Laos, making it the most heavily bombed country in the world, with over 580,000 bombing missions between 1964 and 1973. Today, an estimated 80,000,000 bombs remain unexploded, with 20,000 people who have been injured or killed since the bombings stopped. (5) Between 1969 to 1973, the United States dropped 540,000 tons of bombs into Cambodia against Viet Cong forces, destabilizing the country’s already fragile government. This mass bombing of Cambodia’s countryside helped to fuel the rise of the Khmer Rouge, which subsequently carried out the destruction of Cambodian society