Posted on 02/14/2007 9:06:40 AM PST by Froufrou
We're working hard to bring democracy to Iraq. Why import them to the United States? Makes utterly no sense at all.
It seems like a tiny number, but these types of refugee policies are often nothing but trouble. The state department has a history of intentionally planting them in towns that they deem to be insufficiently "diverse."
When a community of 10,000 farmers in rural Kansas becomes a community of 10,000 farmers plus 7,000 muslim refugees, things are prone to get real tense real quick.
And quite frankly, who could blame them? It's not as if the non-refugees had lived for decades along side a historical and growing local muslim community that has assimilated already and will assist in the assimilation of new muslim arrivals. Instead it's the government coming in and telling them that they have to become "multi-cultural" by the next year and dumping a mosque in the center of their town.
Case in point. When the government does these refugee programs it almost always ends up imposing severe costs onto unwilling neighbors in the proximity of where they decide to settle them.
A couple thousand new residents aren't going to sway many national elections, but those residents (and their anchor children and grandchildren) can completely alter the political policies and makeup of a local government in a rural community. Dump a bunch of muslim refugees in a sleepy conservative farm town deemed "insufficiently diverse" by the DoS, and next thing you know there's a guy running for the town council or county commission on a platform of Shari'a law.
Big difference. Most of our ancestors paid their way here, settled on their own, and assimilated into the existing culture. When the government does these refugee programs the taxpayers end up footing the bill and the Feds dump them en masse into the backyard of an unwilling local community.
You forgot syria
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