The U.S. Hmong population has nearly doubled since the year 2000. It’s been on the rise since the end of the Vietnam War when those who helped the CIA from nearby Laos fled a violent revenge campaign.

Editor’s note: This story was updated with a statement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. LANSING, MI - Lue Yang, 47, was born stateless in a Thai refugee camp. As Hmong refugees, Yang’s ...

More than a dozen Hmong and Laotian Americans living in the Detroit area received a letter summoning them to the city's Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office on July 30. Many thought it was ...

The family of a Hmong American man facing possible deportation is asking for help from the community and policymakers to get his release. Lue Yang, a St. Johns resident who came to the U.S. as an ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Back in April, Hmong youth participated in a Hmong Refugee Simulation showing a glimpse of hardships Hmong refugees once faced. This comes as their community celebrates 50 ...

WAUSAU − Award-winning Hmong-American writer Kao Kalia Yang will speak at two events next week. Yang is the author of "The Latehomecomber: A Hmong Family Memoir," which recounts her family's journey ...

GENEVA, December 29 (UNHCR) - The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday formally approached the government of Laos seeking access to Lao Hmong deported from Thailand a day earlier. Among those sent ...

Immigration enforcement officials on Wednesday released from federal custody a Hmong refugee from Michigan after he spent months in detention over a low-level conviction dating back more than two ...

GENEVA, December 28 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres appealed to the Thai government on Monday to immediately halt its ongoing forced return of some 4,000 Lao Hmong to the ...