Posted on 08/02/2008 11:13:19 AM PDT by jamese777
WASHINGTON - The United States allowed in more than 2,300 Iraqi refugees last month, setting a record and putting the Bush administration on pace to surpass its goal of accepting 12,000 by the end of September.
The State Department said Friday that 2,352 Iraqi refugees had arrived in the country in July, shattering the previous monthly record of 1,721 from June.
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I wonder how many are Chaldeans and Armenians? How many are Kurds looking for an easier trip to Nashville?
12,000 refugees is the gov’s goal.
I want to know, how does importing these 12,000 people benefit me and my kids?
It doesn’t. It lowers our quality of life.
Our daughters and sons have given their lives to make Iraq a better place to live. Guess that wasn’t good enough for these immigrants. Apparantly, they don’t want to stay and make their homeland a better place.
Oh great. We don’t have enough Muslims in the country. Let’s get thousands more.
Tyson Chicken just gave in to pressure to replace Labor Day with a Muslim holiday.
Many of these are Iraqi Christians who have been persecuted for a long time. Some things I’ve read indicated that up to 40% of refugees from Iraq are from the Christian populations, leaving because of persecution.
http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=4238
So much for the Neo-con assertion that American hegemony will make the world a better place. (Scratch a Neo-con and you'll find a Trotskyite.)
Those that produce and contribute are OK, regardless of race. The fatsos who are a drain on our society, whether immigrant OR native born are who really piss me off.
[If] they're Iraqi Christians, then that would be a good thing. [If] they're Iraqi Muslims, then that would not be a good thing.
Shiites and Sunnis would very much be a problem, as said groups (as I have seen with my own eyes) tend to raise money for terrorists even after decades of living here. Kurds are more secular, but some are not.
Again, I would love to see some state, because I believe that the majority of the refugees are Chaldean-rite and other Christians.
Don’t interrupt him with facts. He opened to page twenty of the Democrat playbook on mentioning American Hegemony.
I am in complete agreement with you. That our boy in The Oval Office has turned a blind eye to the suffering of Iraqi Christians, ostensibly in favor of Iraqi Muslims of whatever stripe, has troubled me for a long time.
Wow, you're incredibly short sighted. These refugees are people who risked their lives to protect American soldiers and diplomats, people who are being deliberately targeted by terrorists for their support for America.
Want American casualties to go up? Send the message that America will abandon its friends. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Most Iraqi refugees coming to the US are indeed Muslims. The proof of that is that a majority of them are being settled in the Arab Christian and Muslim enclave in Dearborn, Michigan. Dearborn has about 30,000 Arab residents.
From a recent International Herald Tribune article:
“When the Iraqis begin arriving in larger numbers, many will likely move to southeast Michigan, said Noel Saleh, a social service provider from Dearborn, Michigan. More than 25,000 Iraqi refugees settled in Michigan from 1991-2002, before the start of the current Iraq war.
Saleh said the potential influx of refugees to Detroit’s metropolitan area underscored the need for more funding to help newcomers adapt to the United States. Many Iraqi refugees struggle with health issues, economic hardships and from trauma suffered during the war.”
Prominent among the refugees are persons in “mixed” marriages where a Sunni is married to a Shiite. Those people catch it from both sides and are unlikely to survive in current Iraq.
Many of the Chaldeans were already out of Iraq before the invasion. Chaldean refugees are primarily settled in San Diego where there is already a community of 30,000 Christian Iraqis and the Kurds take care of their own in their autonomous regions in the North.
Actually, the Iraqi Christians had been reasonably safe under Saddam Hussein and enjoyed a degree of tolerance that soon evaporated after his overthrow. Though he was a criminal, not until our invasion and the rise of local Islamic leaders after our liberation of the country did persecution of Iraqi Christians begin in earnest. For all its faults, The Ba'ath party did keep the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in check.
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