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Thread ID: 10277 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2003-10-05
2003-10-05 19:21 | User Profile
[B]US agrees to take in North Koreans[/B]
[url]http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/03/1064988402827.html[/url]
By Hamish McDonald China Correspondent, Beijing
October 4, 2003
The United States has signalled its willingness to take in large numbers of North Korean refugees in a move that could help sap internal support for the isolated state's Stalinist regime.
[B]A senior US State Department official has been in Beijing trying to persuade the Chinese leadership to allow up to 20,000 North Koreans hiding in China to resettle in the US and others to go to South Korea.[/B]
About 300,000 North Koreans are believed to be living underground in China after sneaking across the 1300-kilometre land border and mingling with the 2 million ethnic Koreans holding Chinese nationality.
Since South Korean and Western activists began a high-profile effort to encourage defections in mid-2002 with the aim of an East Germany-style collapse of the North Korean regime, Chinese authorities have blocked attempts to deliver refugees to third countries or foreign embassies and deported hundreds back to North Korea.
Beijing cites a concern that an uncontrolled refugee flow would overwhelm Manchuria, where millions are jobless from the closure of obsolete industries. But it is also worried about the risk to regional stability if the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il suddenly collapses.
[B] US assistant secretary of state in charge of refugee and migration, Arthur Dewey, said yesterday that Washington was trying to win agreement from China to let some of the North Korean refugees travel to the US and South Korea, where they are eligible for citizenship because of their ethnic origin.[/B]
2003-10-06 22:27 | User Profile
Hey, at least we'll get more ethnic restaurants! Swell! Who likes wokked dog?! :thumbsup: :glare:
2003-10-07 00:52 | User Profile
Has there ever been a nuttier country than the United States of today? You couldn't write a Science Fiction novel this weird. Philip Dick couldn't write a novel this weird.
Enkidu
2003-10-08 01:16 | User Profile
[SIZE=3][B]Why the hell are they not going to South Korea!!!!![/B][/SIZE] :bash: :furious: :dung:
2003-10-08 02:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust][SIZE=3][B]Why the hell are they not going to South Korea!!!!![/B][/SIZE] :bash: :furious: :dung:[/QUOTE]
[COLOR=Purple][B]They aren't going to South Korea because that country is not as dumb as our country is and wouldn't give them all of the damn freebies our government would. Aren't we lucky? More turd world immigrants to sue the whites for racism.**[/color] :unsure:
2003-10-08 06:44 | User Profile
VDARE.COM - [url]http://www.vdare.com/fulford/korea.htm[/url]
July 30, 2003
The Fulford File, By James Fulford
Is America The Worldââ¬â¢s Kleenex? Etc. Last year, we noted that North Korea, a charter member of the Axis of Evil, was starting to produce refugees, who could easily move to ââ¬Â¦South Korea!!! Where everyone already speaks Korean, where they have relatives, where thereââ¬â¢s a booming capitalist economy.
But no-o-o! South Korea doesnââ¬â¢t want them. So guess who is going to receive at least 9,000 of them - thanks to Senators Sam Brownback (last featured here because of his hypocritical efforts to bring the Somali Bantu to everywhere in the U.S. except his own Kansas) and Ted Kennedy (ageing author of the epochal 1965 Immigration Act disaster)?
The answer, according to the Sydney Morning Herald - the U.S!
US prepares to open door to flood of North Korean refugees
By Marian Wilkinson, Herald Correspondent in Washington - July 30, 2003
But accepting North Korean refugees received strong support across the political spectrum in the US Senate. It was sponsored by Senators Sam Brownback, a Republican, and Ted Kennedy, a Democrat.
"There is an exodus of massive proportions taking place out of North Korea," said Senator Brownback, who put the figure at about 300,000 people.
"South Korea really cannot be expected to take all of these refugees fleeing [via] China."
Why canââ¬â¢t South Korea be expected to take all the refugees? (Or China either, for that matter.)
The US government would be much better off financially, to say nothing of the social costs involved in importing refugees, if it just sent money to South Korea to build housing, etc.
South Koreans include some of the most successful of recent immigrants. But North Koreans are an unknown quantity as far as their adaptation to American conditions is concerned.
Of course, South Koreans are rightly concerned that refugees may include spies for Kim Jong-Il.
But shouldnââ¬â¢t United States Senators be concerned about the same thing?
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL: [url]http://www.vdare.com/fulford/korea.htm#kleenex[/url]
Reconstructing Dixie The controversy over the nomination of Bill Pryor, a white Southern Roman Catholic, formerly Attorney General of Alabama, to be a Federal judge, has led to complaints of anti-Catholicism in the Democratic Party.
Pryor is considered to be insufficiently loyal to Roe v. Wade, that pillar of modern constitutional law. Some have pointed out that since no Catholic could be expected to give ââ¬Åinternal assentââ¬Â to the principles of Roe v. Wade, this means that ââ¬ÅNo Catholics Need Applyââ¬Â for a federal judgeship.
This has degenerated into a brawl over who is a good Catholic, and who is a bad Catholic, a debate thatââ¬â¢s irrelevant here. (As is the abortion issue.)
However, the Archbishop of Denver, Charles J. Chaput, has written a powerful letter pointing out that the very existence of a Catholic Attorney General in Alabama represents a major social change.
Indeed, Chaput may exaggerate the oppression of Catholics in the old South:
ââ¬ÅCatholics were few and scattered. In the Deep South, like Alabama, being Catholic often meant being locked out of political and social leadership.
ââ¬ÅToday, much of the old South is gone. Cities like Atlanta and Raleigh-Durham are major cosmopolitan centers. Time, social reform and migration have transformed the economy along with the political system.ââ¬Â [Emphases added].
A notably high proportion of VDARE.COM readers are Catholics. They believe that Church doctrine does not oppose, and may well legitimize, the existence of the American nation-state.
But itââ¬â¢s worth asking: how did this change in the South come about? Why is Atlanta a major cosmopolitan center? Why are there a lot more Catholics in America than there were in the bad old days?
The answer, Chaput implies: the mass immigration resulting from the 1965 Immigration Act, which, in turn, was a result of the election of Roman Catholic immigration enthusiast John F. Kennedy, the author of the book A Nation Of Immigrants.
Kennedy made a famous speech to the Southern Baptist Leaders in which he promised that his religion would make no difference to his Presidency, that his decisions would be made ââ¬Åin accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictate.ââ¬Â
I assume he meant it, and Iââ¬â¢m sure he would have been surprised at how many Catholics have immigrated in the last forty years - and certainly at how few of them were Irish.
But, like we always say, immigration has consequences. And Immigration Acts have unintended consequences.
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL: [url]http://www.vdare.com/fulford/korea.htm#dixie[/url]
2003-10-08 18:48 | User Profile
More cover and camouflage for the self proclaimed choosen of god.
2003-10-09 01:43 | User Profile
They could move the dog-wokers right next door to the Bantus or Somalians.
Might provide for a bit of entertainment? :starwars: