REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT OUT OF CONTROL
\nBy Phil Kent<\/p>\n
Announcement by the State Department that our country will admit approximately 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians \u2013 many of them well-treated guests under the late Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein and now unwelcome in post-Saddam Iraq \u2013 again focuses on our dysfunctional \u201crefugee resettlement\u201d program.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian refugees into the U.S.\u2014 and welcome news to the Palestinians who fled to Iraq after 1948 but who have had a tough time since Mr. Hussein was deposed in 2003. Targeted by Iraqi Shiites, the mostly Sunni Palestinians have spent recent years in one of the roughest refugee camps, Al Waleed, near Iraq\u2019s border with Syria,\u201d reports The Christian Science Monitor.<\/p>\n
So Americans must now witnessing Uncle Sap welcoming thugs from the Arab mean street \u2013 many of whom cheered and danced when Muslim terrorists hit the Twin Towers and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2003. There\u2019s also a larger issue. Why can\u2019t any of the Arab League\u2019s 21 members admit their \u201cbrothers\u201d? For that matter, why doesn\u2019t the U.S.-funded, Sunni-led Palestinian Authority resettle them? Did the State Department even urge resettlement there?<\/p>\n
During President George W. Bush\u2019s second term, the number of Arab refugee entries dropped. In 2007, only 70,000 came to our shores (still too many). Under the Obama administration, the number will rise. The main reason? The United Nations now has more say in admitting refugees into the United States! That\u2019s right\u2014 it is a total undermining of our sovereignty. Even though the U.S. has been the dubious world leader for three decades in Third World refugee resettlement, the federal government has delegated even more authority to refugee resettlement contractors and the United Nations to settle more aliens here.<\/p>\n
In 2005, the number of legally-defined \u201crefugees\u201d in the world stood at 8.4 million\u2014a 26-year low thanks in large measure to the end of the Cold War. But the UN has now created a new definition: \u201cPeople of Concern.\u201d They include those internally displaced within their own country. Including them, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, brings the number of UN clients potentially in need of resettlement to 20.8 million.<\/p>\n
Incredible, too, is that most medical bars to immigration are waived for refugees. The Center notes that the U.S. public health service has committed to \u201ccuring\u201d cause of TB among refugees selected for the program before carriers are admitted to the U.S. And, since the last days of the Clinton administration, a known AIDs carrier can now be admitted.<\/p>\n
Furthermore \u2013 and get this!\u2014 the Vietnamese resettlement program, originally supposed to last for a couple years in the 1970s to help genuinely persecuted anti-Communists, continues unabated. Many Vietnamese are now simply coming here to live off the system and have babies who can be American citizens\u2014 and then they go back and forth as they please to Vietnam during good economic times.<\/p>\n
More and more Democrats and Republicans in Congress are saying \u201cno\u201d to illegal immigration and additional foreign \u201cguest\u201d workers who take jobs from American citizens, especially during this deep economic recession. It\u2019s past time these same lawmakers tell the Obama administration and the United Nations \u201cno\u201d by voting for a moratorium on any further refugee resettlement here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As Appeared in The August 2009 Middle American News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":75,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions\/385"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}