More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip (Illegal Immigration from Middle East Increasing)

NY Times ^ | 9/10/06 | ANDREA ELLIOTT

[nj26]

America’s newest Muslims arrive in the afternoon crunch at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Their planes land from Dubai, Casablanca and Karachi. They stand in line, clasping documents. They emerge, sometimes hours later, steering their carts toward a flock of relatives, a stream of cabs, a new life....

Many have made the journey unbowed by tales of immigrant hardship, and despite their own opposition to American policy in the Middle East. They come seeking the same promise that has drawn foreigners to the United States for many decades, according to a range of experts and immigrants: economic opportunity and political freedom.

Those lures, both powerful and familiar, have been enough to conquer fears that America is an inhospitable place for Muslims....

But starting in 2004, the numbers rebounded. The tally of people coming to live in the United States from Bangladesh, Turkey, Algeria and other Muslim countries rose by 20 percent, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data.

The uptick was also notable among foreigners with nonimmigrant visas. More than 55,000 Indonesians, for instance, were issued those visas last year, compared with roughly 36,000 in 2002.

The rise does not reflect relaxed security measures, but a higher number of visa applications and greater efficiency in processing them, said Chris Bentley, a spokesman for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of Homeland Security.

Like other immigrants, Muslims find their way to the United States in myriad ways: they come as refugees, or as students and tourists who sometimes overstay their welcome. Others arrive with immigrant visas secured by relatives here. A lucky few win the green-card lottery.

[dennisw]

Disgusting

[ZULU]

America should stop all further immigration of these people in to our Country.

WE should DEPORT all non-citizen Muslims, and shut down every Madrasseh and Mosque. All Muslims who are native born American citizens should be treated like the Japanese were in WW2 - with far less justification.

They come here to demand we adopt their ways, their customs, their insane "culture". They want our descendants to grow up in a world that looks as pathetic as Afghanistan and Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

This is TREASON at the highest levels of government to permit this go on unabated.

[nj26]

Love it or leave it...Merle Haggard said it best:

I hear people talkin' bad,
About the way we have to live here in this country,
Harpin' on the wars we fight,
An' gripin' 'bout the way things oughta be.
An' I don't mind 'em switchin' sides,
An' standin' up for things they believe in.
When they're runnin' down my country, man,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.

I read about some squirrely guy,
Who claims, he just don't believe in fightin'.
An' I wonder just how long,
The rest of us can count on bein' free.
They love our milk an' honey,
But they preach about some other way of livin'.
When they're runnin' down my country, hoss,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.

[stephenjohnbanker]

"wimpy open-borders elitist who gets teary-eyed thinking about illegal immigrants."

A M E N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Merle bump!

[stephenjohnbanker]

All of that.