Posted on 09/05/2007 12:20:45 PM PDT by nypokerface
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Many of the estimated 4,000 to 10,000 Liberians living in the United States on temporary protected status may be forced to return home as early as Oct. 1.
Thousands of Liberians who could not qualify for refugee status or permanent green cards in the United States were granted six to 18 month stays in the country under a program designed to offer temporary sanctuary to foreign citizens fleeing wars or natural disasters. However, the long-running Liberian civil war, which claimed 250,000 lives, ended in 2003, and now the U.S. government is moving to force some of the Liberians who were granted numerous renewals for their temporary sanctuary to return home, the Indianapolis Star reported Tuesday.
Some Liberians in danger of being sent home say that while the war has ended, the country remains a perilous place -- the average life expectancy in Liberia is only 39 years. Additionally, the unemployment rate in Liberia is 85 percent and 80 percent of the country's people live in poverty.
"People can't go back," said Trocon Karmo, president of the Liberian Association in Indiana. "The country's not ready to accept them. There are no jobs available right now. There are no social services."
Did she invest her money wisely?..........
Don't tell me they fell for that Nigerian e-mail scam!
(I wanted to go with the librarian angle too, but got here too late)
Laverne lived lavishly and lost a lot of loot. She leased a Lamborghini and left Laura for Los Angeles where she met her latin lover, Lorenzo.
Lucrative lover’s labors lost?................
That’s life: some days you’re the the lion, somedays you’re the lamb.
cela est la vie......
“...There are no social services.”
Though Liberia wouldn’t be my choice, I’d think a lack of (govt funded) social services would be a positive thing.
I’ll leave you with the last laugh...
Lounging languidly along the lee...................
Good.
I’m not suggesting that we pull up the ship to Liberia and all that garbage, I’m commenting on the incoherence of our policies towards foreigners.
On the one hand, we ship back people who literally are running for their lives. It’s something the U.S. has offered since it’s inception (and most Western countries). Sanctuary or asylum isn’t a dirty word entirely; we’ve often allowed people to find asylum here over the course of the nation’s history. That’s different than blatant illegal immigration.
My crack was at how we allow folks who come here illegally and who can’t even claim to be running for their lives to stay here, some of whom are criminals of the worst kind, and many of whom become a drain on our system. But those Liberians—well, they gotta go NOW!
Of course politics is to blame. The Liberians don’t have a Vincente Fox/Calderon to demand rights for them in our country. Or a political party that’s willing to indulge in demographic Russian Roulette to get their votes...
You might find this funny...:-)
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