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Hmong

American  
[hmawng] / hmɔŋ /

noun

Hmongs, plural Hmong plural
  1. Miao.


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Derrick’s friend, Pam Jacobson, 69, noted that even in her predominantly-white suburb, Lino Lakes—some 30 miles outside the city—ICE agents had turned up in search of her Hmong neighbor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 26, 2026

“One of the fallacies is that this is only targeting Latinos. If you look at the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Chinese, even Japanese communities, they’re being picked up right in court.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2025

About 1 in 10 Asian Americans lives in poverty, but that rate is 17% of Hmong Americans and doubles to nearly 1 in 5 for Cambodian Americans.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2024

By the 1970s, many Hmong had resettled in Minnesota, Wisconsin and central California.

From Seattle Times May 27, 2024

Saint Paul has a large population of Southeast Asian refugees, and de la O mentored Hmong teens from Vietnam.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Her family resettled in St. Paul, Minn. — home to the highest concentration of Hmongs living in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2024

Fadiman shows great respect for the Hmongs and their culture, devoting alternate chapters to their beliefs and history, without ever pretending that their folk cures did Lia any good.

From Slate Nov. 18, 2019

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