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1987: Hmong families meet arriving relatives at airport

MPR News reporter Tom Meersman reports from Twin Cities International Airport as Northwest flight 128 arrives from Bangkok. Among its passengers are nearly three dozen Hmong refugees planning to resettle in Minnesota.

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1986: Visiting Ban Vinai refugee camp

1986: Visiting Ban Vinai refugee camp

MPR News reporter Tom Meersman reports from Ban Vinai, "a refugee camp in a picturesque valley in northern Thailand," as Hmong craftspeople, American doctors and U.N. officials live and work and navigate the artificial constructs life inside its boundaries.

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1981: The challenges of housing

MPR News reporter Tom Meersman reports on the housing challenges — practical, cultural, governmental and social — refugee families face after arriving in Minneapolis.

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1980: Laotian immigrants arrive in Minnesota

In a report broadcast May 2, 1980, MPR News reporter Tom Meersman tells the story of 60 Laotian refugees who arrived on a flight from San Francisco to Minnesota the day before.

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1979: 'Trampled Grass' documentary

In 1979, MPR News reporter Greg Barron accompanied a team of medical doctors and nurses from Minnesota who were working in Cambodian refugee camps along the Thailand/Kampuchea border. This documentary reports on the sights, the sounds, the people and the suffering.

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1979: Minnesota Gov. Quie tours refugee camps in Thailand

1979: Minnesota Gov. Quie tours refugee camps in Thailand

MPR News reporter Pat Kessler talked to Minnesota Gov. Al Quie about a trip he made to Asia in the fall of 1979.

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1979: After touring refugee camps, Minn. Gov. Quie pledges support

MPR News reporter Pat Kessler reported on Minnesota Gov. Al Quie's visit to refugee camps along Thailand's border with Cambodia. "The governor was clearly moved by what he saw," Kessler reports.

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