A Vietnamese-born Salesian priest has offered to President Donald Trump that he would trade his own US citizenship with a refugee to allow into the United States someone from one of the countries Trump listed in his January 27 travel ban.
Fr Chuong Hoai Nguyen, a Salesian of Don Bosco, who is serving in California, is a refugee-turned-US citizen. He came to the United States as one of the Vietnamese "boat people" following the 1975 collapse of South Vietnam.
His citizenship offer came in an open letter to Trump on January 27, the same day the president issued an executive order that suspended the entire US refugee resettlement program for 120 days and banned entry of all citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries for 90 days. The order has been held up in court.
