Saephan said he was born in Laos and moved to Thailand in 1987 ... and eventually settled in the U.S. Tens of thousands of Iu Mien people live along the West Coast, with a sizeable and active ...

It also raised awareness about Iu Mien people, a southeast Asian ethnic group with origins in China, many of whose members fled from Laos to Thailand and then settled in the U.S. following the ...