Category: Other Immigration

Guantanamo Hot Potatoes

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Who is going to take the Uighers?    You take them!  No, you take them! You!   The case of the Uighers highlights the predicament for all those who suggest we just close down the Military prison at Guantanamo Bay.   According to this AP story there are 355 prisoners at the US facilty in Cuba (there were once twice that many).  Our government is trying to persuade Canada to take as asylees or refugees a group of 17 ethnic Uighers, Chinese Muslims.   

Faced with rising international pressure to close the military prison in Cuba, the United States has identified dozens of detainees who can be released or transferred to other countries.

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Military officials say they expect to identify another 70 who can be transferred or released.

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But before it puts any of those detainees on a plane, the United States must find a country willing to accept them. It also must obtain assurances the prisoners will be prevented from attacking the United States or its allies and will not be tortured or face other treatment that violates international law.

Beijing appears to be wetting it chops to get hold of them, and we fear the worst if they are returned to China.   The Canadian government  says no thanks to the Uighers although Amnesty International Canada says, lets take them.   The US doesn’t want them (or maybe some Chevy Chase-liberal-old hippie-peacenik, has room in a mother-in-law apartment for at least a couple). 

This case says a lot about how fast and loose our government is with the definition of refugee/asylee.   Remember with refugees there is no giving them back.  You bought ’em, you keep ’em.

Slipping through and slipping in with the help of Immigration agents

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Today’s Family Security Matters has a very scary story for anyone following immigration issues.  Michael Cutler, a former INS special agent, has written an account of new information revealed at the Washington Times this week.  Cutler’s piece is entitled,  “Bureaucrat ‘insiders’ working for Islamofascists?”  

Quoting here from the Times:

A criminal investigations report says several U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees are accused of aiding Islamic extremists with identification fraud and of exploiting the visa system for personal gain.

And, then Cutler points out:

The bottom line is, as the article noted, a terrorist needs to obtain official immigration status as a means of embedding himself in our country to be able to hide in plain sight.

Today I was on the Gathering Storm radio show and the question of Iraqi refugees came up.  I was asked if they would be adequately screened and if terrorists, disguised as refugees, could slip through immigration.    Yup!

Will the door to the White House now slam on Grover Norquist?

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We are sure you haven’t missed today’s big news in Washington that Presidential Advisor Karl (give them amnesty) Rove is resigning at the end of the month.   But, does that mean that Americans for Tax Reform head, Grover Norquist, will lose his White House access?    According to Paul Sperry, Norquist and Rove are long-time pals.  In Sperry’s book Infiltration, the author begins a chapter about how on September 11, 2001 Rove had scheduled Norquist and eight Muslim leaders (some with questionable backgrounds) to meet with the President in hopes of getting the President to agree to “end the government’s use of classified evidence to deport suspected Arab terrorists.”

The meeting never happened because planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon that fateful morning.  Again according to Sperry, Norquist took his group of  disappointed fellow Muslims back to his office. 

For more on Norquist see this post at Always on Watch in 2006.

So, our question at RRW is:  Will Norquist and friends be hotfooting it to the White House in the next couple of weeks to push for the Bush Administration to support opening the floodgates to tens of thousands of Iraqi Muslim refugees?   So far, the  Administration has maintained that the war is not over and that if the surge succeeds, Iraqis can go home to rebuild their country.

Iraqi Muslim Refugees–go home (Part 2)

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Not too long ago we mentioned that Lincoln, Nebraska was bracing for a surge of Iraqi refugees, but it appears the surge is not materializing according to this article last Saturday in the Lincoln Journal Star.   Contractor Church World Services through its subcontractor  Luthern Refugee Services  indicated that Lincoln is one of 10 areas of the US set up as receiving areas for Iraqis.  

The contractors sound downright despondent to hear that the process is not moving along.     Afterall, 7000 refugees by September 30th is only a drop in the bucket compared to benevolent Sweden’s contribution.   We feel sorry for people too, right?  We like collecting the downtrodden.

But what if these 7000 Iraqis, and the hundreds of thousands of others who have run and hidden, were brave people?   What if they had the spirit that created America in 1776?   What if they were as determined as both the North and South were in our Civil War?  What if they were as brave as the Brits were facing Hitler?  Or, as daring as the Israelis were in the Six-Day War? 

What if……..they all went home to Iraq and told the foreign fighters [no, not fighters, Muslim cowards who deliberately kill children] to take their terrorism and leave.    We, Americans, have rid Iraq of the tyrant Saddam Hussein and given them an elected government.  It is now up to the Iraqis scattered across the globe to go home, take responsibility and make something of their country.   

The choice is theirs.  They can continue to suffer from the whining syndrome that seems to have gripped the whole world.  They can play the pathetic victim card like their Muslim compatriots at the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) or they can buck up.   A few years ago I gave a speech at Valley Forge Military Academy in which I told the cadets that what they become in life is up to them, not their parents, their teachers or circumstances in their lives.    The same is true here,  Iraq could be a beacon in the desert.

Or, the Muslim Iraqi refugees can hide out around the world living like parasites on the benevolence of  Christian and Jewish do-gooders.  Now wouldn’t that be a fitting end for the followers of Mohammed?

Americans for Tax Reform group supported amnesty bill?

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In light of our story last week about so-called conservative groups pushing for opening the floodgates to Iraqi Muslim refugees, I just checked out the website of Americans for Tax Reform and discovered not only was there absolutely no mention of the costly Refugee Resettlement program to be found, but that this group which purports to work for reform of our tax policy supported the recent Comprehensive Immigration legislation that the people of America killed.  See all of their glowing statements about this amnesty bill here.

What is going on?   In light of my previous post, it looks like we need a blog to inform us of the activities of so-called conservative Republicans!   Anyone interested?