Posted on 08/11/2008 6:08:34 AM PDT by ABN 505
Than Htay (pronounced Thon Tay), 24, who arrived in Hartford in June, is one of about 23,000 Burmese refugees who have legally immigrated to American cities in the past two years under a United Nations resettlement program. It is the U.N.'s largest such effort.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
LLS
Based on their past experiences, one would like to think that these refugees will develop into productive and freedom-loving Americans. So long as they are allowed to assimilate, this would probably happen. Of course, they most likley WON’T be allowed to assimilate. I’m sure those who run the UN “program” are doing their level-best to make Marxist welfare recipients out of them.
Christians in the US need to be resettled? To where?
I meant “to the USA” or “into the USA”. Yes, it was poor grammar on my part.
Maybe in white supremacist fantasy land they don't. But more than 200,000 lily white Bosnians came to the United States under similar programs.
The UN is often slow to act, but when they do it is a storm of efficiency.
You seem a pleasant sort.
Most of them Muslims.
Interesting article. Thanks for posting.
Most of them Muslims.
Ok smarty, what about the hundreds of thousands of Soviet dissidents the US admitted as refugees? Most of the refugees admitted into the US have been white. Most have been Christian, paranoid racist fantasies to the contrary notwithstanding.
So I'm unpleasant, but the fellow who imagines vicious conspiracies against white people is just peachy? I'm just calling it like I see it.
The UN did that?
And you have a source to back up your statement?
From here: http://www.everyculture.com/multi/A-Br/Bosnian-Americans.html
I get the following
These immigrants have primarily been Muslim, pushed out by Serbs fighting to create a Serb-only region. From 1991 to 1994, 11,500 immigrated. The number fell to 8,300 in 1995, then rose to 11,900 in 1996. In 1994, with the U.S. Census records listing Bosnians as a separate category, 337 refugees were granted permanent residence. There were an additional 3,818 refugees in 1995 and 6,246 in 1996. In 1996, 19,242 Bosnians filed for refugee status. Of these, 14,654 were eventually approved, and 1,939 were denied. Bosnian refugees settled into communities all over the United States. Most received help from charitable organizations, as well as aid from the immigrants who preceded them. In 1998, 88 Bosnians and Herzegovinans were winners of the DV-99 diversity lottery. The diversity lottery is conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
Far, far less than 200,000 and, they are "primarily Muslim".
Was this under a UN program? After all, that is what my comment was concerning.
With regard to this story:
1. The UN is not "in charge of our immigration policy." As near as I can tell, WE (the gov't) agreed to admit these refugees (I think there is a legal quota for refugees), which makes them quite LEGAL. The UN ran the camps to keep them alive (as they have done in some other places, as with many of the Vietnamese refugees we took in.
2. Asylum and refugee law generally, is applied fairly equally. A white person who applies for asylum from Zimbabwe because of political persecution would have a good shot. Generally the white and Christian refugees have not ended up in camps, UN or otherwise, as they have had sufficient resources or connection with family or compatriots to end up at least somewhere (and I am sure that some of them may end up here, illegally).
3. I haven't the slightest reason to believe that these Burmese are trying to vote illegally, or who they will vote for when/if they become citizens. Certainly the vietnamese regfugees (remember Reagan's oft-repeated story of the refugee greeting the US sailor with "Hello, freedom man") have tended to vote right (in both senses).
4. There's plenty of problems with our immigration policy without trying to take out general frustration on these folks who seem to be quite legal.
Please tell me: what in any of my comments suggests I have anything against white guys? You're being absurd. I'm a white guy. My beef is with paranoids and supremacists.
Yes it does. Ikka referenced white people, saying they weren't admitted but everyone else is. That's clearly bogus.
Ikka: They are promoting the balkanization of the USA.
Like hell it was.
Ok, touche. :-)
Really? See, I think you're just being silly.
Just what is lily white in your definition?
Well lillies, for starters.
Sure takes the bloom off the lily, doesn’t it?
I think the first time one of these Burmese refugees see the inside of a Wal-Mart, they will understand what freedom and opportunity awaits them here in this new world of theirs.
I doubt we will see very many of these refugees complaining about not having a good enough job or not having the government take care of everything for them.
“You will notice that the UN never resettles whites (such as the farmers who are attacked daily in Zimbabwe) or Christians in the USA.”
If the Burmese refugees are from the Karen tribe, they may very well be Christians.
From the UK Telegraph, January 2007:
The military regime in Burma is intent on wiping out Christianity in the country, according to claims in a secret document believed to have been leaked from a government ministry. Entitled “Programme to destroy the Christian religion in Burma”, the incendiary memo contains point by point instructions on how to drive Christians out of the state.
The text, which opens with the line “There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practised”, calls for anyone caught evangelising to be imprisoned. It advises: “The Christian religion is very gentle – identify and utilise its weakness.”
“You will notice that the UN never resettles whites...”
From Ikka’s ORIGINAL post.
Looks like the comment was about the UN to me...
Are these new freeloaders Muslims like the 90,000 Somalis that Clinton let into America, in apparent thanks for the killing and dismembering of U.S. servicemen in Mogadishu?
“You will notice that the UN never resettles whites (such as the farmers who are attacked daily in Zimbabwe) or Christians in the USA.”
That was not my statement (above) that you posted to me.
LLS
LLS
ping
Thank you for posting that, I’m glad to hear it. I pray for these people, that they will flourish and assimilate. God Bless them.
susie
knock it off
“That was not my statement (above) that you posted to me.”
I think I knew that. I was more posting to the thread rather than you personally, since the way the thread is set up there’s no way to post “to the ether”. No offense was intended, I hope that none was taken.
I’m sorry to hear about your ham radio buddy.
And, weren't they all Muslims?
This has got to be a joke!!they belong in an Asian country somewhere NOT here.
LLS
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.