Syrian Refugee-Immigrants, By T.S. Khanna, November 23, 2015

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November 23, 2015

Syrian Refugee-Immigrants

By T.S. Khanna, November 23, 2015

Recently, ISIS has blasted a Russian jet, killing 224 passengers, staged deadly attacks in Paris and Beirut taking many innocent lives.  During the last two years, ISIS has created a negative image of Islam to the detriment of all Muslims around the world.  It has created a Muslim phobia in the non-Muslim world.  The old rule is still in the works: for ISIS evil to triumph, good Muslims may do nothing.

At the same time, there is an outflow of Syrian Muslim refugees seeking shelter in Europe and America.  To resolve this problem, several factors may be considered:

• For immigrants’ integration with the local population, welcome from the local population is necessary.  Under the prevailing Muslim phobia, such a welcome cannot be expected;
• Not integrated immigrants would become an easy prey for ISIS to radicalize them;
• The job market in America does not look good in the foreseeable future.  Each time the minimum wage is increased, more people are thrown out of jobs into the welfare program.  There are already more than 45 million people on food stamps, compared to 35 million, seven years ago.
• There is a cultural lag in understanding and resolving this problem in American leadership.  They still keep repeating that America is a country of immigrants, so we should accept Syrian refugee-immigrants.  They fail to see that, in the past, immigrants came to build a better future for them.  In that struggle, they built a better America.  Now some immigrants are coming to destroy America.  Syrian refugees offer a great opportunity for ISIS to infiltrate their agents as refugees.  No reliable background checks can be possible; and,
• To keep a close watch on suspected infiltrated agents, additional FBI resources would be required causing additional burden on the taxpayers.

For the benefit of the refugees and the receiving countries, it would be best to settle them in a culturally friendly and welcoming local population: Sunni Muslims may be settled in Saudi Arabia, Shea Muslims in Iran and Iraq, and, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in Europe and America.

Illegal Immigrants in the USA

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                                                ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN THE USA

November 5, 2015.

Illegal Immigrants in the USA.

By T.S. Khanna, November 5, 2015

Donald Trump’s talk about illegal immigrants from Mexico seems to be upsetting even the legal immigrants from Mexico.  One wonders why.  I am a legal immigrant from India.  I would not be supportive of illegal immigrants from India.

A little deeper look seems to reinforce Trump’s concern.  In October 2009, Los Angeles Times published:

• 40% workers in LA County (10.2 million population) were illegal, work for cash, not paying taxes;
• 95%  of warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal immigrants;
• 75% of the persons on the most wanted list in LA were illegal immigrants;
• Over 2/3^rd of all births in LA County were to illegal immigrants from Mexico, on MEDI-CAL expense paid by the taxpayers;
• Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers were illegal immigrants from Mexico;
• Nearly half of all gang members in LA were illegal immigrants from Mexico (Source: FBI);
• In LA County, 5.1 million people spoke English and 3.9 million people spoke Spanish (not caring to learn English?)
• 29% of those illegal immigrants were on welfare.

Since the publication of the above facts in 2009, the situation is worse.  Regardless whether these statistics are correct or not, even one illegal immigrant is one too many.  It raises some serious questions:  Where is our government?  Where is the accountability?  Is democracy an easy cover to escape responsibility? Should Trump be accused of or praised for bringing the issue of illegal immigrants to the forefront?