Posted on 09/28/2010 5:57:32 PM PDT by Mister Ghost
Hell yes, I miss President Bush.
From here:
http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/back802.html
That 1965 legislation imitated the third wave of immigration, which continues to the present. Opening the doors to immigrants from the entire world, it put a premium more on skills and family ties than on provenance. Indeed, with time, making the U.S. population more diverse became a goal in itself, as symbolized by the lotteries, starting in 1989, which gave a chance to anyone around the world to come to the United States with his immediate family.
Accordingly, the numbers of Muslim immigrants began to increase rapidly starting in the late 1960s. Recent analysis completed by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that, among countries with large Muslim populations, Pakistan is by far the leading sending country of immigrants over the last decade, followed by Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Egypt.3
Reasons for Immigrating
Muslims since 1965 have arrived in the United States for three main reasons:
(1) Refuge. Tragic events in predominantly Muslim countries often lead directly to the emergence of a Muslim ethnic community in the United States; Afghanistan and Iraq offer particularly stark examples. The fact that Muslim countries are disproportionately dominated by dictators means that tyranny, persecution, poverty, violent regime changes, civil strife, and wars have driven some of the most talented and wealthy from Muslim countries in the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond.
Some examples by category:
Ethnic persecution. Expulsion of Asians from Uganda, followed by smaller numbers from Tanzania and Kenya, led to some 6,000 Muslims arriving in North America. Saddam Husayn’s extermination campaign against the Kurds led to mass exoduses in 1989, 1991, and 1996.
Religious persecution. Hindu-Muslim clashes in India cause a steady stream of Muslims to seek safety in America, even as members of the country’s elite leave due to job discrimination. There was even one case of a French Muslim seeking asylum in the United States.
Islamism. Members of the Ahmadi sect fled Pakistan when their faith was deemed not Islamic in 1974, as did many other Muslims running from the Islamist (or Islamic fundamentalist) dictatorship of General Zia ul-Haq. The Iranian revolution of 1979 targeted the sort of person most likely to seek refuge in the United States. Persecuted by Islamists, members of anti-Islamist movements such as the Republican Brothers of the Sudan and the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects of Lebanon, immigrated to the United States.
Anti-Islamism. Conversely, Islamists flee repression from countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, and India by moving to the land of the infidel, where they (ironically) find the freedom to express their views.
Civil wars. Waves of immigrants arrived as a consequence of the endless civil war in Sudan, the 1971 Pakistani civil war, the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war, the 1990s anarchy in Somalia and the former Yugoslavia.
International wars. The Israeli victories in 1948-49 and 1967 caused waves of emigration. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 and the decade of warfare that followed prompted the educated to flee. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 brought not only Kuwaiti citizens and residents, but also 10,000 Iraqis, one-third of them soldiers (and their family members) who surrendered to the Allied troops and could not be sent back without imperiling their lives. With the Muslim world dominated by dictators, it seems unlikely that this flow will end or even lessen any time soon.
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3) Islamist Ambitions. Although the numbers in this category are smaller than refugees or students (and indeed, some Islamists also fit in those two capacities), Islamists have particular importance, for they harbor religious and political ambitions that are in a potential collision course with the majority population.
Islamists arrive in the United States despising the country and all it represents, intending to make converts, exploit the freedoms and rights granted them, and build a movement that will effect basic changes in the country’s way of life and its government. The superpower status of the United States makes it especially attractive to those who wish to change the world order; what better place to start? Islamists do not accept the United States as it is but want to change it into a majority Muslim country where the Qur’an replaces the Constitution. “Our plan is, we are going to conquer America,” is how a missionary put it already in the 1920s.4 His latter-day successors are no less ambitious. They have two alternate strategies, non-violent (i.e., conversion of the Christian majority) and violent (i.e., jihad), to accomplish this.
Islamists also find several other advantages to a U.S. residency: Freedom of expression that permits them to write or broadcast whatever they wish. Good communications and transportation allow the Islamists to stay in constant touch with their movements. There is no country as open to outside actors or influences as the United States. Also, American affluence offers many opportunities to raise funds.
But it’s not a complete paradise, especially if the Islamists engage in illegal activities. Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh spending the rest of his life in a U.S. jail for his part in attempting to blow up New York City landmarks, finds things less than ideal in the United States: “I came here to smell freedom; I found it to be suffocating here.”5 Since September 2001, groups (such as the Global Relief Foundation) and individuals (such as Enaan Arnaout, head of the Benevolence International Foundation) who hitherto found the U.S. a playground for dubious behavior have suddenly found themselves caught up with the law.
World’s largest Kurdish community outside the metaphorical Kurdistan is about 30 miles from where I type....Nashville proper...most in Antioch community of Nashville
In general i think this article is Hate Bush BS as immigration has gone on forever and we dont base it on religion.
The bigger questions of how to deal with immigration and jihadists is dam interesting though and I bet the Bush Administration did quite a bit to deal with the problem.
Was surprising when I saw one in California.
Yeah there is something rotten about the way it is been able to develop so fast on this soil.
Especially given what happened on 9/11.
Two LEO who allowed for false reports / who discharged their weapons (at the time towards someone they did not know was legal or illegal in terms of citizenship)....No, we do not live in a police State (yet). Ramos and Compean sentencing was likely to harsh.....But neither man ever should be entrusted with the authority of the State (or Gov’t at any level) again.
That is the government’s case anyway. The same government which withheld exculpatory evidence.
Could you imagine what it would have been like w/Mclame?
It would have been worse because the GOP would have gone along with him.
Sutton also changed the wording of the statute to facilitate the prosecution of the agents. That's wrong. The convictions should have been overturned because of all of this.
Notice: Do not post anything from Debbie Schlussel com or anything written by her
Jim Robinson
Posted on 09/29/2010 1:23:22 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2598189/posts
Earlier today she sent a copyright complaint. Then whined when I put her URL on the no post list. Now she’s threatening some kind of legal action if I don’t pull all of a certain poster’s posts about her “in one hour!” Whiney little green-eyed beotch sure can sling the hash against Sarah and others, but apparently can’t take it if someone slings a little back. As far as I know, it’s not illegal to criticize members of the press (or of the wannabe political hack class).
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