Posted on 12/07/2020 3:21:41 PM PST by BeauBo
The House of Representatives voted Monday to welcome Hong Kong residents to live temporarily in the United States, vowing to be a beacon for rights as China clamps down in the territory.
The House moved by consensus to issue so-called Temporary Protected Status for five years to Hong Kong residents, meaning that people from the financial hub will have the right to work in the United States and will not be subject to deportation.
The initiative must still be approved by the Senate, but it enjoys support across party lines, unlike a previous bid by Democrats to extend the status to Venezuelans that was effectively blocked by President Donald Trump and his Republican Party... "It's actually much more than a humanitarian gesture. It's one of the best ways to deter China from crushing Hong Kong," he added.
China in June imposed a tough new security law that criminalizes dissent in Hong Kong. Since then, authorities have arrested and jailed young activists who expressed their views and disqualified pro-democracy lawmakers in the city's legislature.
In recent months, former colonial power Britain has offered a pathway for Hong Kong residents to become citizens, and Canada has made immigration easier.
If the Senate approves, Hong Kong would be the only wealthy place to enjoy Temporary Protected Status, which has been issued by Congress or the White House to protect hundreds of thousands of people from war-ravaged nations such as Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
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Hong Kongers are some World-Class human capital - wealthy and productive.
Of course, if Biden is President, it will be perverted into an express entry line for communists and their spies, for just dropping a few more rocks into Hunter Biden's crack pipe.
Absolutely.
God bless them.
Good.
We should be vetting them for communists though
After so much evil coming out of the House, my first thought is no longer “About damn time!” but is “What are the Dems up to?”
Move them to the UK.
Why not..... they open the doors for practically everybody else.... good, bad, or otherwise.
Yup.
Agree.
Exactly. Just like Castro sent his agents amongst the Cubans reaching Florida.
I feel like a buffoon for even thinking this, but —
How many of them will have been infected by the CCP (without their knowledge or consent) before they leave for the States?
The UK and Canada have already opened special programs for them.
About three million Hong Kongers qualify for British Overseas Passports, and basically all of them could move to the UK, under the new rules.
China has already been clamping down, to prevent people from getting their money out, and leaving.
As they should since it was part of the British Empire and they were British Subjects, let them take care of them and ferreting out the ChiCom spies amongst them. Not our job.
The democrats will sell them back to the ChiComs. The actual ChiComs that slip in will be allowed to stay.
I have a close friend who is a Hong Kong native. Months ago I told him to take his kids and leave. Now I rarely hear from him and fear that he won’t ever get out.
This is gonna backfire badly on the Democrats. Hong Kong residents have seen communism up close and personal, and they likely won't be voting Democrat. :)
They think that because they are Asian, they are gonna vote Democrat, but what these stupid house members don't grasp is that these Asians know what communism is, and they will likely oppose efforts to socialize America.
If they’re smart, they won’t come here with commies are about to take over.
“”How many of them will have been infected by the CCP (without their knowledge or consent) before they leave for the States?””
Probably not as many as those born in the US and indoctrinated at our Ivy League schools...and running for Congress some day...
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