U.S. may open doors to 25,000 refugees

washingtontimes.com ^ | 4-18-2007 | Nicholas Kralev

[bedolido]

The United States could take in up to 25,000 Iraqi refugees this year -- more than three times the number it previously agreed to admit -- in an effort to provide some relief to the crisis affecting several Arab countries, the State Department said yesterday.

[newcthem]

Maybe we can get them in Minnesota..........replace all the Somali cabdrivers and Target store clerks.

[RebekahT]

This is nothing new - the US has always granted refugee status to thousands displaced/affected by various wars we’ve participated in.

[ASOC]

The ‘new’ Boat People?

[ishabibble]

I must disagree. Everything about this war is new, and it is beyond belief that the U.S. gov’t would agree to allow these people to flood in here. OK, so the U.S. State Department is run by a bunch of idiots is nothing new, but I really cannot understand why potential Muslim terrorists are simply allowed to get on a plane and live in the U.S. and will not be subject to security because of “cultural and religious sensitivity”. Simply appalling.

[expatguy]

Wonderful.

Not a one of them will be expected to learn English of assimilate.

From this we will have another few ticking time bombs like the Korean kid.

[stevio]

Unbelievable.

[mutley]

Only if they renounce that retched murderous cult they say is their faith.

[jordan8]

I've been saying from the beginning that one of the results of our excellent little adventure in the Middle East would be a flood of these "immigrants." in an effort to provide some relief to the crisis affecting several Arab countries - This makes me want to puke - no it makes me want to break out the rope. I don't give a damn about providing Arabs with relief. The traitors that run things treat the citizens of this country like they are their personal chattel and treat the culture of the country as disposable. In a real nation that has a culture the government serves the nation, in an empire were the population has no common bonds the people must serve the government, the only thing that unites the empire. That's just what these treasonous SOBs at the top want. They are busting out their own country for their own benefit and the benefit of their class. We get a lot of jaw-jaw from the conservative establishment whining about class warfare, but the lowliest welfare recipients whose children are all criminals are better than the parasites at the top, not one billionth as destructive.

[aruanan]

25,000 ???, just damn

You think if we had less people in the U.S. there would be more jobs? Ha ha ha ha ha.

[Paul Ross]

Christians?

One would hope that they were given priority, along with, perhaps, the Sufi Muslims who don't share the full insanity of the real-McCoys...

[quietolong]

Homos?

[twigs]

How is bringing 25,000 refugees here going to solve anything?

If we're fighting in Iraq to keep the frontline conflict there, which is at least one of many reasons why we're there, then isn't this shooting us in the foot, so to speak. Or more accurately, bombing us in our streets here in the US?

I'm not against bringing Iraqis here as refugees, but our record on keeping out dangerous foes of liberty is not such that I trust this movement now.

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

>>>The United States could take in up to 25,000 Iraqi refugees this year

Our soldiers go to Iraq and die so Iraqis can be free of dictatorship, but instead Bush ships Iraqis here.

I can’t wait until Bush finishes his term. How could I have twice voted for someone so callous to American citizens.

[antisocial]

At least there would be less traffic.

[ladyjane]

I am completely disgusted with Bush and the GOP which lets him get away with crap like this.

You are not alone.