Posted on 12/09/2017 8:22:01 PM PST by Olog-hai
Since he became governor, Chris Sununu has rarely clashed with President Donald Trump, supporting the travel ban on citizens from several mostly Muslim nations and quick to play up visits he has made the White House.
But when Trump’s immigration crackdown reached the state’s tiny Indonesian community this year, Sununu wrote a letter to his fellow Republican in October in which he said he was “respectfully requesting your administration reconsider its decision to deport these individuals” and urging it consider a “resolution that would allow them to remain in the United States.”
Sununu insisted the case of the Indonesians was different from that of visitors from the Middle East or Syrian refugees hoping to settle in New Hampshire. The Indonesians had been in the state for decades, raising families, working and staying out of trouble, he argues.
“This really isn’t an issue of illegal immigration in the traditional sense. That is often what we hear from the Trump administration, and that is an issue that has to be dealt on the national scale,” Sununu told The Associated Press in an interview. “What you have here is a unique situation.”
Sununu has been praised by Democrats in New Hampshire who have championed the Indonesians’ case while Republicans, and even anti-immigrant Trump supporters, have said little about the decision. …
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Let me guess: that “small community” gives big campaign donations.
Rule of Law
Or not
I am not anti-immigrant. I am anti illegal alien. I don’t know the story behind the Indonesians. But, that statement made me give this story about zero credibility.
Whatever happened to the flatulent old RINO?
Immigration, legal or otherwise, needs to halted for 20 years.
The nearly 70 Indonesians in New Hampshire and Massachusetts are mostly Christians and fled religious persecution before and after the fall of former dictator Suharto in 1998. In the chaos that followed, riots broke out and mobs targeted ethnic Chinese and other minorities in the mostly Muslim country.These are precisely the people we should be letting in as refugees.
See how the AP does not put that in the headline, and buries it eight paragraphs down. All to avoid offending the “religion of peace” of course.
Makes it look like Sununu vs Trump.
Trump actually wanted preferential treatment for Christians written into his refugee order but it got removed by the lawyers at some point.
Several of my daughter’s high school classmates (all Christians) went, with their parents, to the USA after the ‘98 riots. They now all have kids, work steady and hard, have bought their own homes, and behave as model citizens, which they have become through marriage or naturalisation.
Most of the Indonesian Chinese pursue a western lifestyle, even here in Indonesia, and are respectful towards western culture. They are indeed the desirable refugees.
Deport illegal Indonesians, deport illegal Irish, deport illegal Indians, and deport every other illegal in the country. If they have been deported before, lock them up for long enough to discourage them from returning, then deport them again. The rule of law matters.
Maybe there is more to this story, but as best as I can see, these people were allowed in and allowed to stay, legally, and are now in jeopardy because...??? Were they blocked from applying for green cards (which usually can be extended). Something else?
As far as I can tell, these are just illegals. They came illegally and built lives here under false or stolen identities. It’s nice that they have (mostly?) been law-abiding since their initial crime of entering illegally or overstaying their visa, but that does not excuse their crime. It’s like a bank robber who invests the stolen money wisely, a choice that does not give him legal claim to future use of the stolen money.
Deport ALL illegals. No exceptions.
I guess I am confused? How did these people get & keep steady (apparently) “factory jobs” without some sort of (legal) documentation and legal status? I myself would not be able to.
Reference is made to a 2009 “deal”. But no details are given. Did it somehow obviate needing a green card?
Just from what’s in the article, this does not seem to be a case involving forged paperwork... or is it? That most certainly would be a crime. Hmmm...
The article doesn’t give us an answer, and I don’t particularly care. If they are here illegally, it doesn’t matter what deals were made in the past; those deals were also illegal.
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