Since the Laos government fell Into the hands of the Communists In 1975. about 70.000 Hmong have died while resisting the totalitarian government. Now the Hmong people are caught between wanting to leave the wartorn mountains of Laos behind and the prospect of facing heavily armed border guards in Thailand. which has said it wants no more of the thousands of Laotian Hmong who have already sought refuge there. In this country. 90.000 Hmong refugees have resettled into a peaceful existence. About 35.000 of them have established homes in Californias San Joaquin Valley. where they are building reputations as honest. hardworking. tightknit families who are proud of their ethnic heritage. Many want to return to their homeland and to relatives they left behind. but the promise of endless fighting deters them.
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