Most of them Muslims.
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.
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.