Reply #2: There is much more to this story:

[Pax Hayden]

This is only one facet of a much larger issue concerning the Hmong.

Hmong Refugees Face First Cultural Hurdle
A U.S. plan to take in thousands of ethnic Hmong refugees who fled the 1975 communist takeover of Laos faced its first cultural hurdle on Tuesday over the tricky issue of polygamy. More than 15,000 Hmong living at the Wat Tham Krabok refugee camp in Thailand -- many of whom fought alongside the Americans in the Indochina War -- are eligible under a resettlement program critics say was long overdue. But polygamy, which is illegal in the United States, is a common practice among Hmong.

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/WireFeed/WireFeed&c=WireFeed&cid=1074160749543

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The appropriate response to the Hmong's desire to remain Polygamous is for the United States to pass a constitutional amendment banning Polygamy. After all, we have to protect the sanctity of marriage. /sarcasm

ON EDIT: Edited title.