It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Radical Islam/GWOT => Topic started by: Pandora on October 19, 2011, 10:25:06 AM
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Coming straight to you from the department of "Are They INSANE??!" (http://cnsnews.com/news/article/iranians-win-4453-diversity-visa-applications-immigrate-us):
The State Department has awarded 4,453 permanent resident "Diversity Visa" applications to would-be immigrants from Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism that was recently implicated in a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States.
The lottery program for Diversity Visas awards prospective immigrants with the chance to obtain a permanent residency visa. The 4,453 prospective Iranian immigrants will still have to pursue their visa applications on their own, according to the State Department’s website.
To be eligible, applicants must have at least a high school education or two years of work within the previous five years at a job that requires at least two years of training.
Iran’s intelligence services have been implicated in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States by bombing a restaurant or public place in Washington, D.C.
The only man arrested in that plot, so far, is a naturalized Iranian-American citizen named Manssor Arbabsiar.
Yes. Yes, they are.
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Like they say, the only good immigrant is a legal immigrant. Until the State Dept. starts mucking.
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::rockets::
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Just the whole notion of there even being such a thing as a "diversity visa" infuriates me. So admission to our country needn't have anything to do with skills and abilities you bring, or even just a genuine desire to embrace the American experiment, but rather your place of origin tickled the fancy of some tedious, overwrought bureaucrats, and they considered that reason enough in itself to bring you here.
Why do we tolerate this? Who decided that "diversity" was in and of itself a compelling foundation for immigration policy? Why is it any effort to change it would be met with outrage from the bureaucracy, with the assumption that "diversity" was somehow a criterion etched in the tablets brought down the mountain by Moses?
This is symptomatic of a decadent, self-indulgent civilization; the idea that it can import people based on fleeting fancy, fashionable ethnic backgrounds, and pay no regard to their tangible benefits to the civilization.
Anytime this subject comes up, I am reminded of a story I am personally familiar with. I have a friend from Germany, a medical doctor, who speaks perfect English and even lived in the US for several years as a kid. He has been denied a permanent visa on more than one occasion. Yet, we literally import thousands from Iran just because they're from Iran?
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No political persecution in Germany, G!
Llike bureaucrats can tell the difference between a plant and a non-plant!
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Coming to you courtesy of the Department of Stupidity .
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This is symptomatic of a decadent, self-indulgent civilization; the idea that it can import people based on fleeting fancy, fashionable ethnic backgrounds, and pay no regard to their tangible benefits to the civilization.
WHY? WHY? WHY?
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This comes from people who need to find another job. They obviously don't have enough to do so they make up more stupid stuff.
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Other 'jobs', indeed. The guy who started it all in '65 is now breeding earthworms.
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I don't know if he's breeding earthworms just yet. The alcohol probably hasn't finished evaporating, so the soil is contaminated.
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You can't fix stupid! ::facepalm:: ::gaah::