Senators Plan to Tighten Immigration Net

Reuters via The New York Times ^ | October 25, 2001

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[samtheman]

Good, but not good enough. We've got over a million visitors on temporary visas from Muslim countries. We should send them home quick.

[digerati]

Anyone here on any kind of visa from the seven designated countries should be sent packing NOW.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

They better stop planning and start doing. Time is of the essence here in case they didn't notice.

[samtheman]

Did you write your congressman?

[StormEye]

"Students from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Syria, Cuba and North Korea -- countries the United States lists as sponsoring terrorism -- should be barred from entering the United States, the senators said. Feinstein cited the example of the head of Iraq's nuclear weapons program, who was educated in America."

Well this is feeble start in the right direction. Now just add Saudia Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, the "Palestinians", Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, Algeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Phillipine Muslims, and possibly those Central Asian Islamic states and we might just might manage to keep the terorists out. Oh, and I almost forgot --- Pakistan too!.

[truthkeeper]

Barn doors and horses come to mind...

[StealthChild]

Hear, hear!

[holyscroller]

"Students from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Syria, Cuba and North Korea -- countries the United States lists as sponsoring terrorism."

Pretty short list, if you ask me. It should be tripled, at least.

[Vinomori]

They are doing the right thing. They are only a day late and a dollar short. Is the thing.

[Sunburnt in Seattle]

Why do we allow anyone from a state known to sponsor terrorism into this country? People from such countries shouldn't even be brought here in shackles to await trial. Congress needs to declare war, brand the terrorists as saboteurs, and execute them following a brief trial. But, execute them overseas; don't tarnish our soil with their blood.

[tom h]

"Allowing students from these countries to study in the United States is an opportunity to expose the up-and-coming intelligentsia in these societies to democratic values, said Elisa Massimino of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights."

Uh, excuse me, Miss Massimino, but we already have the proof that "exposing" middle Eastern students to democratic values does nothing of value -- and certainly enjoying the pleasures and lifestyle of Americans doesn't make them more inclined to like us.

What a moron liberal. She's probably the type that still mouths "Diversity Works!" when we now have proof, thanks to 9-11, that diversity doesn't.

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"Senators Plan to Tighten Immigration Net"

I don't trust'em!

[Dan De Quille]

Ping

[Liz]

thanks......

[steve-b]

Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Jon Kyl said they were drafting a bill that would bar students from seven countries the United States lists as sponsoring terrorism

Geez, and it only took a month and a half for somebody in Congress to think of this....

Allowing students from these countries to study in the United States is an opportunity to expose the up-and-coming intelligentsia in these societies to democratic values

That's a worthy goal -- but it would be safer and probably more efficient to send our teachers over there than to bring their students over here.

It would be a hard message for the Bush administration to square if a bill like that were to pass ... because they are working very hard to show this is not a war against Muslims

Nonsense. The bill is directed to terrorist-supporting states regardless of religion. Two of the seven aren't Moslem countries by any stretch of the imagination, unless they've hidden the Grand Mosque of Havana and the Iman of Pyongyang somewhere.

[FITZ]

It's a start but there's a long way to go. We need to restrict immigration to people compatible with the culture and goals of the United States. Muslims have a different political system, letting them come here is just like importing Nazis who would intend to take over the US.

[Brownie74]

I am suprised that Dianne Feinstein is on this. But she proposed earlier placing a 6 month ban on immigration. It is a start - we still have a lot of house cleaning to do.