Posted on 10/27/2001 2:25:31 AM PDT by Aeronaut
ABU DHABI — The Bush administration has assured Saudi Arabia that its nationals will not be restricted from entering the United States. Arab diplomatic sources said the U.S. embassy in Riyad has not been issued new restrictions regarding visa requirements for a Saudi national.
The sources said the administration assured the kingdom that Saudi nationals will continue to enjoy access to the United States. This includes the lack of exhaustive interviews or background checks.
On Tuesday, Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz met U.S. ambassador to Riyad Robert Gordon. The official Saudi news agency said the meeting concerned "issues of mutual interest."
Saudi officials were concerned that the United States would tighten visa requirements amid reports that eight of the 19 suicide hijackers who destroyed parts of New York and Washington on Sept. 11 were Saudi nationals. Last year, more Saudi nationals received U.S. visas than any other citizens from the Arab world.
"The Saudi citizen must be treated with the due respect in any country as is the case with peoples of other nationalities," Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz said. "Even if there were Saudis accused, a whole nation and people must not stand accused."
During fiscal year 2000, more than 60,000 Saudis were issued visas. The next highest figure from an Arab country was Egypt, with nearly 49,000 visas granted.
"The Saudi citizen must be treated with the due respect in any country as is the case with peoples of other nationalities," Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz said. "Even if there were Saudis accused, a whole nation and people must not stand accused."
Why?
I must've missed the news when the Saudis cut off China's oil shipments, after Beijing told em to Keep Out of China !
This is getting very upsetting. There cannot be a war on terrorism unless there is a war on globalism. How is bombing any country going to solve the problem if its citizens can just legally (or illegally) walk into this country?
Bottom line...these terrorist attacks were initiated on US soil.
The enemy is in this country right now. And any terrorists who are not already here are free to immigrate. The government has been doing an excellent job rounding up suspects from the last two attacks. But what about the next attack? We thought there was only one murderous Islamic cell in America the last time, too.Congress has authority to pass a law tomorrow requiring aliens from suspect countries to leave. As far as the Constitution is concerned, aliens, which is to say non-citizens, are here at this country's pleasure. They have no constitutional right to be here.
Hearing on International Terrorism and Immigration Policy
January 25, 2000
Good morning. Before I begin my prepared comments, I would like to take a moment to express my deepest appreciation to you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing, and, equally important, for standing up to the orchestrated campaign to stop me from appearing. Because of the investigative work I have carried out as a journalist and investigator in exposing the presence of militant Islamic fundamentalists and Middle Eastern terrorists in the United States (see attached bio), I have been the subject of a sustained campaign of vilification, defamation and even a threat to my life during the past five years by militant Islamic organizations operating as self-anointed representatives of the larger Muslim population, whom they decidedly do not represent.
U.S. Law Says Membership in Terrorist Group,Or Advocacy of Terror, No Bar to Immigration
A 1990 U.S. immigration law, sponsored by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D.-Mass.), instructs State Department employees that "mere" membership in a terrorist organization or advocacy of acts of terrorism should not exclude foreigners from receiving U.S. immigration visas.
Under the law as it is written, someone who belongs to a Middle Eastern terrorist group and has publicly stated a desire that the World Trade Center towers be blown up cannot, on those grounds alone, be denied permission to legally enter the United States as a prospective citizen.
There is something very fishy about this. Did you ever get the feeling that maybe our government wants terror and turmoil in America? For example, power grabs by the federal government are much easier during national emergencies.
Whatever the case, I am slowly losing all faith in our government's willingness to protect our borders.
Why stop there, why don't we just pay their tuition to flight school? Its unfair that taxpayers are already financing the state universities where we teach them bio-chem warfare and not paying to teach them how to fly planes into buildings.
This attitude is why NOTHING is being done and why little old ladies in airports are screened EXACTLY the same way that young middle eastern men are. We will never have enough border patrol, enough INS employees, enough airport security, enough of ANYTHING to go on mindlessly treating "everyone the same", which means, we will NEVER deal with any of these problems. At least until after many, many more American civilians are dead. We can no longer afford to be stupid in the name of political correctness.
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