Thread: AZ WElCOMES REFUGEES BUT NOT ILLEGALS? RACISTS?

Article from the Houston Chronical's Immigration Blog, surprised they would print this since it does not show that Arizona as a RACIST State.

The United States has always welcomed refugees and legal immigrants; the problem in the United States has to do with ILLEGALS now invading our nation with out any desire to assimilate as citizens but only obtain citizenship in an effort to steal from our treasury and take jobs from citizens.

The ILLEGALS and their Anchors do not require much encouragement to execute vicious crimes! Our FAMILIES are already at the mercy of ILLEGALS and their Anchors being murdered, raped, infected with disease, or robbed. We can see the results of the ILLEGAL invasion in our courts every day! But NOT to worry the Chamber of Commerce will get their cheap labor increasing their privatized PROFITS while socializing the benefits for their ILLEGALS on the back of U. S. Citizens, thanks to our past and current Presidents, the Congressional Leadership(?), and local elected and appointed officials!

October 11, 2010
AZ welcomes refugees, but not so much illegal immigrants

Eric Kayne/Houston Chronicle
Refugee children from Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan play before afternoon prayers begin at a nearby Masjid on Sept. 12 in Houston.



The New York Times reports today that Arizona, internationally renowned for its anti-illegal immigration law, gladly takes in refugees from across the globe.

Here's an excerpt:

PHOENIX -- Here in Arizona, illegal immigrants get the boot. But refugees get the welcome mat.

Even as officials rage at what they have called the "invasion" of illegal immigrants, mostly Mexicans, Arizona has welcomed thousands of legal immigrants from such grief-torn lands as Somalia, Myanmar and Iraq, and is known for treating them unusually well.

Indeed, the scorched expanse of the Phoenix valley can seem like a giant resettlement lab. Bosnians trim the watered lawns of the Arizona Biltmore, and Karenni speakers have their own prenatal class at St. Joseph's hospital. A Sudanese goat farmer is thriving in a desert slaughterhouse built with a micro-enterprise loan. (He is glad to demonstrate his skill in turning goats to goat meat.)

...Only three states accepted more refugees on a per capita basis over the past six years. Arizona took nearly twice as many refugees per capita as its liberal neighbor, California, and more than twice as many per capita as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

"In the degree of welcome and receptivity we see, I would certainly put Arizona at the top," said Robert Carey, a vice president at the International Rescue Committee, which resettles refugees in a dozen states.

The work contrasts with the state's renown as the scourge of illegal immigrants, whom critics blame for driving up crime, stealing jobs and burdening hospitals and schools.

Posted by Susan Carroll at October 11, 2010 12:11 PM
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PHOENIX — Here in Arizona, illegal immigrants get the boot. But refugees get the welcome mat.

Ibrahin Swara-Dahab, a goat farmer from Sudan, arrived in Arizona as a refugee and is thriving in a slaughterhouse there.

Even as officials rage at what they have called the “invasionâ€