I’ve been following the shooting rampage in Binghamton, NY for the last few days and am wondering how Wong entered the US. It seems no report ever tells us, only that he “moved” here one day in the early 1990’s. You can’t just “move” to the US and become a citizen “soon afterwards.”
This is from an AP story published in Medeshi, a Somali publication.
Police are still reaching around the world to notify families of those killed Friday by 41-year-old Jiverly Wong, who was apparently upset about losing his job at a vacuum plant and about people picking on him for his limited English. [I don’t believe this part about being “picked on” about his English, his letter wasn’t that terribly written.]
His victims came from around the globe, including Laos, Mexico, Somalia and the former Soviet republics.
Four Chinese were among those killed, said Zinqi Gao, spokesman for the Chinese consulate in New York. Their names will be released Sunday, he said.
One Chinese student was among the wounded, according to consular officials quoted by China’s official Xinhua News Agency. He was shot in the arm and leg.
Wong was born in Vietnam to a Chinese family. He moved to the U.S. in the early 1990s and soon afterward became a citizen, friends and relatives said.
Was Wong a refugee, an asylee, or what? And, it’s pretty surprising, don’t you think, that we are still taking refugees from Vietnam, twenty years (the 1990’s when Wong arrived) and more after the country got a stable government. In fact, in 2008, we took 1,196 Vietnamese refugees. I thought the leftwingers in the US loved the Communist government of Vietnam; isn’t that what they were all cheering for during the war? Are we admitting there is a problem with Communism by allowing “refugees” to move to the US?
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