Would allowing 7,000 Iraqi's into US who worked for Coalition mean more Chalabi's in the US?

[KoKo]

(I realize we allowed Vietnamese who worked with us to immigrate to the US...and it's been a practice in other Wars...but somehow this bothers me that these were people who worked with the coalition and therefore would be very prone to wanting us to stay in Iraq "until the job is done" like NeoCons want.
On Edit: Chalabi is Iranian but he worked very hard to push his own causes with the NeoCons...do we want Iraqi's doing the same thing for the NeoCons)

:shrug:


Iraq Transition /U.S. to allow 7,000 Iraqi refugees
POSTED: 7:52 a.m. EST, February 15, 2007

• U.N. estimates 2 million Iraqis have left their country since war began
• U.S. tells U.N. it will try to resettle 7,000 Iraqi refugees in United States this year
• So far, U.S. has taken in 466 Iraqi refugees


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration hopes to resettle about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to the United States this year, the State Department said Wednesday.

The decision comes amid pressure from the U.S. Congress and the international community to do more about the growing refugee crisis.

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres estimates as many as 2 million Iraqis have left their country since the war began and another 1.7 million have moved within Iraq as a result of increased sectarian violence.

The United States has been criticized for accepting a small number of refugees since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. The United States has taken in 466 Iraqi refugees since then.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Guterres to outline a new U.S. program for Iraqi refugees, which includes $18 million for additional funding for UNHCR to assist with resettlement of refugees in other countries and humanitarian aid.

The plan is the work of a new task force announced last week to study the Iraqi refugee issue.

U.S. Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky, who led the task force, said the United States would attempt to resettle about 7,000 Iraqi refugees from countries where they have fled from Iraq.

"The United States and the international community can best help displaced Iraqis by quelling the violence in Iraq," she said. "At the same time, we have a responsibility to respond to the immediate needs of Iraqis who have fled violence and persecution."

Dobriansky said the United States also is working to develop special provisions for resettlement of thousands of Iraqis who work for the United States in Iraq and are still there, but face increased threat because of their cooperation with the coalition.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/14/us.iraq.refugees/index.html

[PLF]

1. This ought to make the anti-immigrant crowd squeal. Muslim haters as well.

[saltpoint]

2. Can't answer the question, but I don't want to be at Lou Dobbs' house

when this goes down.

[Leopolds Ghost]

3. If By "more Chalabis" you mean Iranian Secret Agents... who knows?

Iran will certainly have rationale to send over more double agents
and saboteurs after we attack them. Will they worm their way into
the Administration to advance Iranian interests, like Chalabi did?
:shrug:

[KoKo]

4. Yes...and agitators for more "intervention." I think the NeoCons

look for people sympathetic to their views by bringing in very sympathetic...immigrants. It worries me, only bringing in "Coalition Sympahtizers," when there are so many others who were professionals who were driven out without loyalty to either Saddam or "the Bush Coalition of the Coerced" who have been caught up in this mess through no fault of their own.