Long Thai, center left, looks toward his customers as he walks through the dining area of his Vietnamese restaurant, the Golden Dragon, in Reno, Nev., earlier this month.
Not far away, on the floor of a small office space within the University of Nevada, Reno’s Clark Administration Building, Vinh Nguyen recently sat on the carpeted floor to pray and read the Bible with friends, both in-person and online.
Nguyen immigrated to the United States from Vietnam just over a decade ago in 2014, and is now a senior studying civil engineering at the university. Today, he is one of the over 2,000 Vietnamese people estimated to have made Washoe County their home…