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2005-03-23 Iraq-Jordan
Iraq Begins To Expel Illegal Aliens In Earnest
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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-23 8:47:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Iraq Begins To Expel Illegal Aliens In Earnest

Let's hope that our illustrious leaders in DC follow the Iraqi's lead on this.
Posted by AzCat 2005-03-23 9:01:43 AM||   2005-03-23 9:01:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 others are held with no evidence other than not having proper residency permits under the new rules.

Like here in the US -- I suspect that there is a LEGAL way to get the proper residency paperwork and LEGALLY immigrate. For some reason these people are unable to get the LEGAL paperwork. Now this may be due to the lack of the proper bribe but that is how things work.

"The fact is that some, not all, Arabs and foreigners have destroyed the reputation of Arab and foreign countries in Iraq," said Brig. Gen. Taif Tariq Hussein, who heads the Interior Ministry’s residency office. "They have either helped in executing sabotage operations or they have carried out sabotage themselves.

Cause -->> Effect

I think the US should follow this model.
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-23 9:12:01 AM||   2005-03-23 9:12:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "...So far the program has swept up mostly Syrians, Sudanese, Saudis and Egyptians, and about 250 people have been asked to leave.
Far more are being detained — as many as 200 a day in the Baghdad area alone — although most are released within a few days."

If 'far more' are being detained than are being deported and 250 a day are being deported, how can 'as many as 200 a day' be being detained. Is it a requirement of the the LATimes that they only hire reporters who flunked 6th grade math.
Posted by mhw 2005-03-23 9:29:55 AM||   2005-03-23 9:29:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 My feeling here is that they should make a clean sweep and give amnesty and permanent residence to anyone (including Palestinians) who can show they were in Iraq prior to the invasion. It's not their fault that Saddam invited all and sundry into Iraq in the name of pan-Arabism. However, I suspect Iraqis will want to deport them all.
Posted by Zhang Fei  2005-03-23 9:35:56 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2005-03-23 9:35:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 There's always a place for the pali people to go.
Posted by Ta Helle 2005-03-23 9:36:49 AM||   2005-03-23 9:36:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Given that this is the LA times I suspect that there has been that type of a program (to give proper documents to residents) and the LALA times just isn't reporting it.
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-23 9:39:25 AM||   2005-03-23 9:39:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Let's hope that our illustrious leaders in DC follow the Iraqi's lead on this.

Don't place any bets on it.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-23 10:05:29 AM||   2005-03-23 10:05:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 If 'far more' are being detained than are being deported and 250 a day are being deported...

I think they mean that 250 people in total are being deported, not per day.

Snarky comments about sixth-grade reading ability suppressed.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-03-23 10:13:06 AM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]  2005-03-23 10:13:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 "Round up the usual suspects!"
Posted by mojo  2005-03-23 10:16:04 AM||   2005-03-23 10:16:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 So far the program has swept up mostly Syrians, Sudanese, Saudis and Egyptians, and about 250 people have been asked to leave.
Far more are being detained — as many as 200 a day in the Baghdad area alone — although most are released within a few days."

If 'far more' are being detained than are being deported and 250 a day are being deported, how can 'as many as 200 a day' be being detained. Is it a requirement of the the LATimes that they only hire reporters who flunked 6th grade math.

operative phrase is "in baghdad alone" say 250 a day are deported nationwide, 200 a day detained in Baghdad, and 100 a day detained elsewhere. 300>250. Make sense now?
Posted by liberalhawk 2005-03-23 10:23:47 AM||   2005-03-23 10:23:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Vulcans, go home?
Posted by Chuck Simmins  2005-03-23 11:14:50 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org]  2005-03-23 11:14:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 At least some of the foreigners Saddam brought to Iraq were there for terrorist-related training. Others, as the article notes, were given preferential treatment. I imagine that at the moment few-to-no foreigners are having their paperwork renewed, whether it's deliberate policy or individual initiative. The Palestinians have carried U.N. passports since 1948, especially those from U.N.-administered camps, but those who fled directly to Iraq in 1948 likely have nothing but Ottoman or British Mandate papers and Iraqi birth certificates for their descendants.

They are the ones in a pickle, because nobody wants them -- not even the P.A. The Territories are overcrowded and underemployed already, and in that clan-based culture they have no connections to stand up for them.
Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-23 12:09:04 PM||   2005-03-23 12:09:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Iraq Begins To Expel Illegal Aliens In Earnest

I'm familiar with A Street Car Named Desire is A Bus Named Earnest derivative?
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-23 2:46:36 PM||   2005-03-23 2:46:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 This sounds like racial profiling. It must be stopped.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-23 2:53:51 PM||   2005-03-23 2:53:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 note the odd phrase "Arabs out" Having been oppressed in the name of Arab nationalism for so long, the Iraqis (at least the Shia) hardly think of themselves as Arabs anymore. Iraqi nationalism is in a bitter war now with Arab nationalism.

I am still a liberal, and will still regret any disproportionate harm to innocents - while Iraq has every right to expel all illegals, including those who have done no terror, I hope they find someplace and dont suffer unduly. OTOH the real victimizer of these arabs, esp the Pals, is Saddam Hussein, who used them to justify a murderous regime.
Posted by liberalhawk 2005-03-23 4:38:09 PM||   2005-03-23 4:38:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Arabs deporting Arabs is racial profiling??? Now there is the leftist mentality for you.

The US needs to take a few lessons from Iraq and begin deporting some illegals ourselves.
Posted by Burlyman 2005-03-23 5:25:41 PM||   2005-03-23 5:25:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 poor mrs D. SDNWONTN - sarcasm does not work on the net.
Posted by liberalhawk 2005-03-23 5:30:00 PM||   2005-03-23 5:30:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 It does , but only the foolhardy dont get it :P
Posted by MacNails 2005-03-23 5:35:27 PM||   2005-03-23 5:35:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 :snif:
I thought a Bus namea Ernie was purdy good. But no! You suckers either ignored it for hurtfulness or didn't get it! Either one is bad! I worry!
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-23 5:58:25 PM||   2005-03-23 5:58:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Ship, we got it. Does the bus named Earnest go to re location Camp?
Posted by Deacon Blues  2005-03-23 7:34:30 PM||   2005-03-23 7:34:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Six months ago, the world was filled with visions of Iraq aflame: Bush's War declared a catastrophic failure by Teddy, and Fallujah was something out of Dante's Inferno (OK, that part's right).

Fast forward...

Here is the LA Times with a classic report of everday shlubs getting hassled by The Man. A Mideast version of 'Travels With Charlie'. Nothing indicates a country returning to normal like people bitching about cops rousting 'em for ID and documentation.
...
The Palestinians never fail to back a loser, do they? They repaid Saddam's lucre by vociferously supporting his invasion of Kuwait in 1990. After the Iraqi army was expelled in 1991, the Kuwaitis kicked the Pals out of the country.
Posted by mrp 2005-03-23 10:42:25 PM||   2005-03-23 10:42:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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