Posted on 10/02/2001 5:42:37 PM PDT by Inspector Harry Callahan
Law Sponsored by Ted Kennedy Mandates Affirmative Action for Libya, Iraq, Sudan, and Syria
U.S. Encourages Immigration From Terror-Sponsor States
By Joseph A. D'Agostino
The Week of October 1, 2001
The U.S. State Department runs a quota system designed to encourage immigration from all seven countries on the department’s own terrorist watch list.
The "Diversity Immigrant Visa Program" has the goal of issuing highly prized permanent residence visas to 50,000 foreign nationals from countries that send relatively few immigrants to the United States. These visas are specifically designed to increase the diversity of the U.S. immigrant pool and are in addition to the employment- and family-based permanent visas that are granted each year.
All seven of the nations listed by the State Department as "state sponsors of international terrorism"—Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Sudan—are included in the program. "This was a program created by Congress," said a State Department official, and "1995 was the first year we had it."
Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which requires the State Department to run the program, was sponsored by Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.) in 1990 and signed into law by President George Bush.
Countries that have sent 50,000 or more immigrants to the United States in the last five years, such as Britain, Canada, mainland China, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Pakistan, and the Philippines, are excluded from the program.
Applicants to the diversity program "still have to meet the same requirements as other applicants for permanent residence visas," a State Department official said. "Those requirements include copies of police records, interviews."
The application requirements, the official said, enable State to screen out dangerous people such as terrorists. "No one country may have more than 7% of the visas, but there is no minimum," she said. "No country is guaranteed to be able to have applicants approved under this program." Applicants enter a lottery each year, she said. Requirements include a high school diploma or a history of skilled work experience.
Thirteen million people filed applications for the 50,000 slots available next year. Of these, three million applications were ruled invalid. Of the ten million remaining, 1,703 people from Iran were awarded visas, 117 from Iraq, 67 from Syria, 26 from Libya, 757 from Cuba, none from North Korea, and 1,820 from Sudan.
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.), chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, had already introduced legislation to abolish the program before the September 11 attacks. Now he says he will include its abolition in the immigration reform package he plans to introduce after the House has passed the President’s anti-terrorism package. He said he expects that it will be difficult to get this reform package to the House floor.
Jack Martin, special projects director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), said he doubts that terrorists use the diversity immigrant visa program because obtaining permanent residence visas is such a long process that includes a more thorough background check than that involved in getting a temporary visa (for business, tourism, or study).
Posted for Education and Discussion only, Copyright belongs to Human Events 2001
Oh, but Ireland gets a real nice quota, thanks to the IRA loving, drunken, woman killing piece of garbage from Massachusetts.
Whom the gods would destroy, first they make mad.
Diversity for diversity's sake is sociologically insane.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department released on Tuesday immigration charges against 13 foreign citizens wanted for questioning about the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks, including a Saudi and a Pakistani who entered the United States in late August.
The additional documents brought to 46 the number of people for whom immigration charges have been made public. A total of 142 people are being held on immigration violations, a Justice Department spokesman said.
The violations were discovered during the investigation into the attacks the United States blames on Saudi exile Osama bin Laden and members of his radical Muslim al Qaeda network.
The government has not charged any of those held on immigration violations with taking part in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Of the 13 charged, five were from Egypt, three were from Pakistan, two were from Saudi Arabia and another person was a Saudi native who became a citizen of Yemen. The others were from Morocco and Tunisia.
Their names were blacked out for privacy reasons. Most of them were charged with overstaying their visas.
Of the 13, one entered the United States as far back as 1989, three entered in 1998, three in 2000 and the rest this year.
On Aug. 23, the Saudi entered the country in New York City, but did not posses valid immigration papers and misled the U.S Customs official about the amount of currency being brought into the country, according to the documents.
A Pakistani entered the country in New York state on Aug. 29 in violation of immigration law, according to the charges.
More than 5,700 people have been reported dead or missing and were feared dead in the Sept. 11 attacks involving four hijacked airliners. Two planes slammed into New York's World Trade Center, a third plane hit the Pentagon and a fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers apparently struggled with the hijackers.
Boulette is preparing clients for possible increased scrutiny of their H-1B workers' applications and entries, despite the fact that the vast majority of IT professionals working on the speciality occupation visas are from India, a country not associated with the attacks in September.
For the period of October 1999 to February 2000, of 81,262 H-1B petitions approved, 34,381 were for professionals from India. Petitions for Chinese applicants ranked next at 7,987;
Canadian applicants ranked third at 3,143. "Other countries", which include many South American, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries,
were combined at 13,386.
Computer-related occupations accounted for 42,563 of the approved H-1B petitions for that same time period.
Congress must accept some responsibilities from not protecting the United States citizens.
They have signed onto by the way of treaties and laws to this internatinal U.N. World Order.
Now, because of the mistakes Congress has made, they want to make laws for our freedom, constitution, and bill of rights to be taken away from us.
The new order will bring the solutions we want.
Suppose all Americans said on Monday, Dec. 8, 1941, “Oh! It’s Too Late!”
Get your ass in gear and help defend this country!
“The eligible lottery countries include every country in the world EXCEPT the countries that are listed below” [but if you are not “white”, just disregard the list.]:
For more, go to Google and type in “Immigration Lawyers”.
Having said that, I understand your concerns here. I think if you look at the immigrant population, there appears to only be one group is that a concern in terms of national security. And that would be the Moslem religious group. You can't say that Buddhists or Hindus in general are a threat, but you can say that a portion of the Moslem religious group is a threat.
Efforts may need to be made to curtail or substantially reduce the nature of this threat. I haven't fully thought out my position on this, but I do know that immigration must and will continue.
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