Iraqi Immigrants - "The Other Surge"

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…it seems fairly certain to me now that we’re going to end up evacuating Baghdad’s green zone from the embassy roof in helicopters…Thomas Friedman in today’s NY Times writes: “Of course, just leaving would be bad for us and terrible for those Iraqis who have worked with us. We need to give them all U.S. passports.”
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… the Iraqi flow here is likely to…grow rapidly. Which is why in the future we need to factor in considerations of the immigration fallout before we launch foreign policy initiatives. For instance, the immigration created by our absurd intervention in Somalia has resulted in Somali cabbies at the Minneapolis Airport trying to impose Islamic strictures on travelers there (see this from a NY Sun story this week) — no one could have predicted that specific outcome, but something like it was bound to happen, and is a cost of involvement in the Islamic world. In the words of CAIR: “Now that the Muslims are here, they need to be accommodated.”
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Yes, we’d have an obligation to those Iraqis just as we did to the Vietnamese who supported us in that war.
 
But I have heard that the quota for Iraqi immigrants to the U.S. is only 500 per year. And this despite the massive exodus (100,000?) of Christians from Iraq in the past year.
 
Dale_M said:
But I have heard that the quota for Iraqi immigrants to the U.S. is only 500 per year. And this despite the massive exodus (100,000?) of Christians from Iraq in the past year.
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Where might we turn to find out if these numbers (both the 500 and the 100,000) are accurate? I believe we do have such an obligation since we apparently are now going to abandon another country.

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In 2005, more people from Muslim countries became legal permanent United States residents — nearly 96,000 — than in any year in the previous two decades. More than 40,000 of them were admitted last year, the highest annual number since the terrorist attacks, according to data on 22 countries provided by the Department of Homeland Security.
(More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip, New York Times, 9/9/06)
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CNEWA on Christian emigration from the ME. Most seem to be ending up in Lebanon or Europe or - somewhat surprisingly - Israel, although most of these seem to be from Eastern Europe or Ethiopia.
Also from the NYT - State Department officials say they are now open to increasing the number of refugee slots the administration formally requested for Iraqis in September. That request already allows for as many as 20,000 more refugees from unspecified countries.
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Jeffrey said:
We need to accomodate them? How about they assimulate? That’d be better.
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You mean we don’t have to write textbooks, hire teachers, and have parallel classes for the 150th additional dialect?:eek: Amazing. You mean our citizens will actually have to learn and use English?:eek: You mean multiculturalism will actually be challenged?:eek: Do you mean that the welfare rolls might actually be limited and that new immigrants will once again have a chance to make it in our country? :eek: Do you mean that immigration may actually not mean an expansion of government?:eek: Will miracles never cease?👍

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The democrat hatred for Bush and political correctness will most likely ensure our defeat in Iraq. Unless some Sunni dictator comes to power with enough behind him to send Iran’s agents packing or under the earth, there will be plenty of Christian and Sunni refugees, and many will expect to be absorbed into this country.

The problem is, political correctness will not allow us to admit the Christians and exclude the Sunnis, many of whom will be radical Islamists of their own particular brand. Consequently, we will have the alternatives of either excluding all or admitting all.
 
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The problem is, political correctness will not allow us to admit the Christians and exclude the Sunnis, many of whom will be radical Islamists of their own particular brand.
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“Better the devil you know…”

Christians (gross generaliaztion, I know) have grievances of their own with the US. On the West Bank and in Iraq, they see US and Israeli policy as the reason for their dispossession.

Hussein was no doubt a murderous thug, but life was much better for Christians with his thumb on the Shiite’s. Muslims understandably, if wrongly, identify America and European countries as Christian states. Makes it rather tough to see their Christian dhimmi as safe.

We have had much the same problem with minorities in our own country; just ask Japanese-Americans.

I can’t imagine Tariq Aziz was a shining example of Christianity in action either.

Europe seems to be getting the bulk of Christian emigres from the ME if the CNEWA article is correct.
 
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