sorry, i don't want to fan any flames here (again, i don't think this article is HN-worthy at all), but there are lots of small poor countries in southeast asia

sorry, i don't want to fan any flames here (again, i don't think this article is HN-worthy at all), but there are lots of small poor countries in southeast asia with oppressive, politically-unstable regimes around the time when lots of refugees and other people seeking political asylum were granted admission into the US back in the 1970's and 1980's