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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Umberg</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="COAUTHOR_OPPOSITE">(Coauthors: Assembly Members Kalra and Ta)</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title>Relative to the fall of Saigon. </ns0:Title>
                <ns0:RelatingClause>the fall of Saigon</ns0:RelatingClause>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.</html:p>
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                        <ns0:FiscalCommittee>NO</ns0:FiscalCommittee>
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                                <html:p>WHEREAS, The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, and the culmination of the Vietnam War, led to the United States-sponsored evacuation of approximately 125,000 Vietnamese refugees in a first wave and hundreds of thousands more during the two-decade long Indochinese refugee crisis, creating what would become the United States’ sixth largest foreign-born group; and</html:p>
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                                <html:p>WHEREAS, Vietnamese immigrants and their United States-born children comprise one of the largest diaspora populations in the United States, at more than 1,800,000 individuals, and a large proportion of the first generation arrived in the aftermath of the Vietnam War; and</html:p>
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                                <html:p>WHEREAS, California is home to 35 percent of the Vietnamese American population, which is the largest share in the country; and</html:p>
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                                <html:p>WHEREAS, California has one of the highest populations of Vietnam veterans in the country, and 5,822 service members from California died or went missing in the conflict; now, therefore, be it</html:p>
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                                        <html:i>Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring,</html:i>
                                         That the Legislature hereby commemorates the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 2025; and be it further
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                                        <html:i>Resolved,</html:i>
                                         That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
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