Refugees at America's Door Find It Closed After Attacks

The New York Times ^ | October 29, 2001 | SOMINI SENGUPTA

[sarcasm]

Refugees already undergo the most stringent background checks of any people seeking admission to the United States.

Wasn't the individual who went on a rampage in California admitted as a refugee? Weren't we told at that time that his police record had never been checked?

[sarcasm]

ping

[grania]

State Department officials say that they regret the situation, but that the policy is justified given the heightened alert in the country.

This shouldn't be a "situation", it should be a permanent state of events. The Afghan widows?? Why should they come here...let some of these Moslem countries take 'em. Door closed, don't bother knocking, we have to stabilize our population and remove those who are here illegally.

And someone should clue government officials in. Most people just plain don't like these globalist-open borders initiatives.

[samtheman]

Kick Muslim visitors out of the USA.

Deport illegals and enact an immigration moratorium

Contact Congress Today

[fredtaps]

LIARS!!!! Ok people, I work at JFK airport and let me announce that the NY Times is full of sh*t!! Immediately following the 9-11 attack, a plane full of Afghan and Sudanese refugees arrived at JFK! I saw with these two blue eyes the masses who took up camp sleeping in the Skycap carts at the end of the Arrivals Hall while the FBI agents "interviewed" them. I thought they took the airport to be their new refugee camp, the way they settled down in the carts. It was a most distressing sight. We were shocked, that moments after the towers fell, here was a new wave of moochers for the tax payers to support. You know that just weeks after arriving in the US, refugees apply for Refugee Travel Documents and run right back to the countries they supposedly fear!!! They waltz back into the States after spending MONTHS in the nations we "save" them from. The Refugee program is a farce. The IOM (intl office of migragtion) get millions of grant dollars and has to use it up for the fiscal year. They recruit people, wanna go to the US? THEY (the iom knows what the state dept requires in the application)fill out the bogus stories for the narrative part of the applications. "I was humiliated and forced to wear a neck tie" I have seen thousands of the refugees arrive at the airport, no one is emaciated, and they are well dressed and have tons of checked bags with them. Refugee applications should be read by the US taxpayers, it's an outrageous abuse of the program. And then the media writes these bullsh*t stories about the poor people who aren't allowed to come here - you liars - ugghh! I feel like holden caulfield right now, you fake phoney frauds!

[dennisw]

What crap! Thanks!

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The New York Times if full of s***!

The State Department has made no changes, since 9/11, in allowing foreign nationals into the United States. Who cares about refugees when the real potential murderers are given red carpet treatment?

Two weeks ago, fourteen young Syrian males were welcomed into the Dallas area for flight training at local flight schools run by Arabs!

Does 11 million illegal aliens sound like our government cares about the safety of its citizens?

[piasa]

In notice the list women as women or widows, and children are mentioned, but the author avoids using the term 'men.'

And the claim that anyone admitted in the prior administration has a security check is laughable- not that we can even properly check if we tried. Overseas records aren't too good.

[piasa]

Not when the government trades away citizenship to any generic group another country wants to ship, in order to win trade concessions, etc. We must accept the illegals and others blindly so such-and-such company can put a factory in a given country.

[VA Advogado]

Wasn't the individual who went on a rampage in California admitted as a refugee? Weren't we told at that time that his police record had never been checked?

Someday, the back ground check on immigrants will be more in depth than the one an american gun owner must tollerate.

[bulldog905]

Immediately following the 9-11 attack, a plane full of Afghan and Sudanese refugees arrived at JFK!

I am close to the situation, so I know what you say is true.

Even if these frauds, phoneys, and leeches are ever weaned from the welfare giveaway programs, they will have preferential hiring and educational rights(in the public and private sector) over honest tax-paying resident Americans.

And both parties support affirmative action, and both turn a blind eye to illegal immigration!

[RippleFire]

They should have just got tourist visas and made themselves at home like everybody else does.

[Alas]

As many as 20,000 refugees from across the world, cleared to come to the United States to escape persecution in their homelands, have had their arrival here delayed indefinitely in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

They would be well advised not to try and sneak in. Better to take their chances with the border patrol at the border crossings than sneaking across in the woods or across the desert at night.

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Nukem

[Brownie74]

— has not issued its annual refugee quota, administration officials said.

The word "QUOTA" is a laugh. If the administration allows 100,000 refugees from country "A" into the U.S., and 200,000 get in, all they will do is try to grant amnesty to the additional 100,000.

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK. YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK.

[blam]

"And someone should clue government officials in. Most people just plain don't like these globalist-open borders initiatives."

Write and email your congresscritters. Keep the pressure on.

[browardchad]

And someone should clue government officials in.

Unfortunately, they are totally clued in -- in not wanting to stop immigration. Neither Congress nor the White House want to touch this with a ten-foot pole, given the pressure from lobbies ranging from business (cheap labor) to minority groups -- and, of course, all those potential voters for both parties.

[2sheep]

"This time, the very nature of the enemy is that they have infiltrated this country and pass themselves off as law-abiding, quiet immigrants. The entire modus operandi of this enemy is to smuggle mass murderers to our shores."  ...Ann Coulter

[D. Miles]

I feel sorry for those in real need of protection from whatever they suffered in their countries. But, this is not the time for the world to give us their poor, their tired, or their hungry!

[Publius6961]

When was it decided, and by whom, that America may not have a lock on her front door?
All doors actually.

Complain to the Muslims and the al Qaeda, whiners and losers. Lots of luck.