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Why should the USA take in 25,000 Iraqi people?

City officials (Warren Michigan) said the federal government has agreed to accept up to 25,000 Iraqi refugees into the United States. In order to obtain refugee status with the U.S. Department of State, applicants must list someone living here as a contact person. Steenbergh said 66 percent of the total refugee allotment may be located in Warren and Sterling Heights because those communities have significant Iraqi populations. There are very few jobs for americans so where are the Iraqi people going to work?

Public Comments

1. Because they owe them that much. Canada can't clean up everyone's mess.
2. The USA shouldn't take them in. If Western civilization doesn't get tough on "Islamism" and either send them home or worse, all of us will suffer the consequences of what can only be called a racial and religious war against us that will drag us into the darkest of ages, blacker than the robes that they swaddle their women in. I ,for one, would rather die than be converted by a sword at my neck to any belief system. I will fight, my family will fight--join us now--call for the return of Muslims to their own countries. Withdraw their citizenship and send them, as well as those who have converted to their murderous system, back to their own lands. Here is what they believe: Political Correctness is the Incubator of Islamism by Amil Imani 14 Feb, 2007 Time and again we are told by the politically correct “experts” not to worry about Islam posing a threat to our way of life. We are repeatedly lectured that only a very small minority of Muslims are troublemakers who are giving the peaceful masses of Muslims a bad name. We are also informed that the terrorists, who happened to be Muslims, are the disaffected and the young. And not to worry, since as the fire of youth turns to ashes of old age the rebellious will mellow, as they always have. With heavy assurances like this, coming from so many know-it-all authoritative figures, we can sleep soundly without the aid of sleeping pills. After all, people reason that these pundits are “experts” whose job is to know and tell it like it is. Those who voice contrary views must be a bunch of racist, alarmist hate mongers. Who is right? Wouldn’t be more prudent to let the facts settle the matter, rather than blindly accepting either position? Of course it would, except for one huge problem. In the face of threats, people tend to go to the mind’s medicine cabinet and take a few denial and rationalization pills, in the same way that it is the aspirin bottle they turn to when a headache strikes. Why not? We are the Easy Species. We love effortless, quick and simple solutions. And that’s not invariably bad. It has given us all kinds of labor and time saving devices. Yet, the Islam problem is very real and deadly. Neither the pronouncements of the experts, nor the tranquilizing pills of the mind can make it go away. It is here and it shows every sign of imposing itself on us. Europe is already badly infected with Islamism. It is the coal-miners’ canary. It is telling us that the next stop is America. We must act and act now. We must not sacrifice our cherished way of life and the lives of our children at the altar of political correctness: the incubator of Islamofascism
3. I would like to hear what the World Economic Forum had planed before they made the decision to over crowd the community like the jails have become overcrowded and China and other countries. I think they just want to make our worlds a little smaller while they sit back and watch through those peep holes called entertainment.
4. Because we're the land of the free and we started this war. If we would deport all the illegals like we should be doing, there would be more jobs for legal citizens.
5. Because we have tried to liberate the Iraqi people from a dictatorship and we succeeded at doing that, but the outcome right now doesn't seem to be all that great. The U.S. government maybe failed to realize, but their army had nowhere near the numbers to secure Baghdad, let alone the rest of the country. They thought they could win the war but didn't understand the idea of winning the peace. The situation that the government didn't really think about was, who will take power in Iraq after Saddam is gone. I hope they understood that there were many factions throughout Iraq who would want power and wouldn't want a democracy, like Al Sadr. In fact, a big portion of the government in Iraq don't want a democracy. Most of them have militant groups working for them. There are now between 100-200 thousand Iraqis dead. In Iraq, most Iraqis never know if they will live that day always fearing death by you name it, a death squad, a militancy, or the sunni insurgency, or even Al Qaeda in Iraq, or maybe just due to a road side bomb. The United States owes it to the Iraqi people to take in some of them as refugees just because of how much pain and suffering the war has brought them and their families. The bad part about doing this though, is that the Iraqi people might adopt the extremist views when in the U.S. and that might lead to a lot of trouble.
6. Well, the poor Iraqi people don't have a house in their home town any more and they can't live in safety either...so sad human beings have to flee wars.
7. 12 million Mexicans vs 25,000 Iraqis. That means 1 Iraqi is worth 480 Mexicans. Sounds about right.
8. Well, we did kind of invade their country and ignite a civil war, so I guess new digs is the least we can do.
9. they better think twice after the doctor fiasco in the UK.