The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has crippled the economy up and down the coast. In Alabama's seafood capital, Bayou La Batre, a third of the town is from Asia. Many of the Vietnamese residents took up shrimp boating when they arrived in the United States as refugees. Now, the oil spill threatens the livelihoods they've built for themselves.

And as Anna Boiko-Weyrauch reports, they face a unique set of challenges.

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