Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath may have killed dozens or more Vietnamese Americans living along the Gulf Coast. Asian Pacific Americans belonging to other ethnic groups have also been affected, but the Vietnamese Americans of the region suffered the majority of the casualties among Asians.
Vietnamese American media and organizations reports indicate that perhaps more than 70 Vietnamese Americans around Empire and Buras, Mississippi, may have been killed....
Tens of thousands of Vietnamese Americans living in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama affected by Hurricane Katrina are highly concentrated along the coastline because they work in the shrimping, fishing and shipbuilding industries. Vietnamese Americans make up over 40% of all APAs in Louisiana....
Other Asian Americans in Texas have offered their homes for victims to live in. In a mass e-mail this week to constituents, Councilmember Gordon Quan reported that in Houston, “the Filipino community has settled over 50 evacuees with local families” and that “the Pakistani community has settled 600 people into 200 apartments.”...
Indian American Congressman Bobby Jindal was among thousands of residents in New Orleans, Louisiana, who were left without food or electricity...
Jindal’s legislative victories on natural disaster compensation in Congress this year are critical for Louisianans as they fight yet another major calamity.
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