Leaders of Madison’s Hmong community say that the most serious insult against the hundreds of families here is not the words of a University of Wisconsin law professor, but the language of the Patriot Act.
Far more damaging than an alleged slur made in a classroom against their culture, Hmong leaders say that the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act of 2005 threaten a partnership made more than 40 years ago that opened the United States to Hmong refugees.