Thread: Obama to grant one MILLION green cards to people from Muslim-majority countries

Obama administration on track to grant one MILLION green cards to people from Muslim-majority countries

832,014 immigrants from Muslim majority countries have received green cards since 2009

Muslims make up 1 per cent of the U.S. population, according to census figures

Donald Trump is proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

Trump said Monday he wants to ban Muslims from countries with a 'proven history of terrorism'

By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE.COM PUBLISHED: 21:02 GMT, 17 June 2016 | UPDATED: 21:10 GMT, 17 June 2016

More than 800,000 people from Muslim majority countries have gotten green cards since 2009, wth the number set to hit 1 million before President Obama leaves office.

The data, released by a Senate subcommittee on immigration and the national interest, reflect a steady uptick in migration from Muslim nations in recent years – even as Donald Trump seeks to put a pause on Muslims visiting the United States.

The biggest increase in permanent residents came from Pakistan and Iraq, with more than 100,000 coming from each country. Bangledesh had 90,000, Iran had 85,000, and Egypt had 56,000, while Somalia had 37,000, according to data published by Breitbart News.

The Pew Research Center estimated there are about 3.3 million Muslims living in the U.S., making up about 1 per cent of the population. This number is expected to double by 2050, when it would be 2.1 per cent of the population.

The figures don't cover those entering the country on short-term visas like tourist visas.



Donald Trump is calling for a Muslim ban for countries with a 'proven history' of terrorism, though it's not clear
if he means to target regimes or countries where terror has occured

If the Trump ban were enacted, it could reduce immigrants from Muslim nations by up to a third. Pakistan is a global hot spot for terrorism and is where the U.S. located and killed Osama Bin Laden, although the government there has allowed the U.S. to carry out drone strikes against terrorists in its territory.

The regime in Tehran is considered a top sponsor of terrorism, although historically many Iranian immigrants to the U.S. have been regime opponents. The Muslim Brotherhood was briefly in charge Egypt after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarack, and ISIS has been active in the Sinai peninsula.

Trump said Monday after a fanatic born here to parents from Afghanistan killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that he wants to 'suspend immigration from areas of the world where there's a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe, or our allies.'

He didn't say how he would define the countries that would come under the suspension, or whether he meant countries that had suffered attacks or those considered to either support or turn a blind eye to terrorism.



832,014 immigrants from Muslim majority countries have gotten green cards since 2009


President Obama announces executive actions on immigration to ease deportation threats for
undocumented immigrants in 2014

He has said the ban would stay in place 'until we figure out what is going on.'

Donald Verrilli, the outgoing U.S. solicitor general said Trump's Muslim ban wouldn't be upheld in by the Supreme Court even if it got enacted.

'Yeah. I mean, I don't want to speculate on a case that doesn't exist and probably will never exist. But I can't imagine that the Court would find a religious test like that appropriate,' Verrilli told MSNBC in an interview as he prepares to step down from his job.

Immigration from Muslim-majority countries has increased year-over-year.



Muslim men pray at a demonstration in front of the Immigration and Naturalization Services building in
New York in 2002

According to the Senate subcommittee, the number of green cards going to Muslim-majority countries jumped by 27 per cent from 2013 to 2014, to 149,000 from 117,000.

The trend puts the U.S. on track to grant green cards to 1.1. migrants from Muslim-majority countries.

President Obama called for the U.S. to admit 10,000 refugees into the U.S. because of the civil war there. But as of March, only about 1,300 Syrian refugees had been admitted.

Trump's proposed Muslim ban had been drawing criticism among elected Republicans. House Speaker Paul Ryan continued to criticize the proposal this week, and said that 'I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers.'


U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services presented 2,354 candidates for naturalization at a federal
court in in Boston on June 16

A dinghy overloaded with Afghan immigrants arrives on a beach in Greece in May, 2015

Obama administration on track to grant one MILLION green cards to people from Muslim-majority countries

Where does the government expect all these people to work? I mean most of our jobs have to moved to other countries now the people are coming here to prosper I assume. Where will they work? There are 96 million unemployed right now. These immigrants will receive job preference and the government gives incentives to business's to hire everyone but Americans. This needs to stop and get our own people back to work first.

96 million unemployed right now. These immigrants will receive job preference and the government gives incentives to business's to hire everyone but Americans. This needs to stop and get our own people back to work first.

Unfortunately, they don't plan on doing that. This is the globalist plan to redistribute the wealth - poison our children with heroin, meth that illegals and these central american "children" will arrange from their drug cartels. The globalists want overpopulation as they control food, water, clothing, trade, everything for their profit. Workers here that made $18 an hour have been replaced by imports for $8 hr. GREED! Our IT workers making $80,000 a yr REPLACED by imported Indian workers for $40,000; they can now bring their spouses too, thanks to O, to take more jobs from Americans. It is sick! guess they will have babies "called American citizens" too.

To hell with our beautiful public lands, sell them to big gas, oil, coal, toxic mining - do away with endangered species protections, move our captured holding penned wild horses across the north & south border to be brutally sliced up w/o anesthesia, which are more in #s that what is left on their lands, sterilize the rest so they can use their designated lands for pollluting cattle & the assortment of toxic industries.

To hell with clean water act, deny decent air pollution regulations so they can pollute unmercifully for their corporate profits. How extraordinarily SELFISH to eliminate species. By expending clean energy forms instead; there would be no toxic effects and PLENTY OF JOBS. Would be progressive rather than regressive. it is the 21st century, let us move into the times with new technologies rather than stuck in the past.

Why are the saudis allowed to buy & use our lands and precious water for farming to feed their people - Arizona, john mccain land.

O was put in office to bring this to fruition. USA as we Americans know it is disintegrating and if hillary gets in the wh, a total loss of our country forever.

Even if Trump gets in, it will be hard to turn all this back with all these thousands of border children taken in and these muslim imports cannot be negated. Illegals go but with over 10,000 a day, illegally crossing that we know about it will make the effort to rid our country of them larger.

Damn all these open borders advocates and those that are succumbing to a muslim run UN Refugee program to spread islam to the West. We should demand withdrawal from the UN & put the National Guard at the border NOW.

im still out of work the illegal immigrants has job 's but we don't obama has to get out fast

Less than 5% of illegals work in the fields, but lamestream leftist media will never publicize that fact. They like to spew the lie that they're "doing jobs Americans won't do". Most Americans believe this, but it's a blatant lie. The other 95% of them are taking American jobs, and neither party will do anything about it. Time to take our country back from these lying, greedy, egotistical, incompetent b*stards that the 51% on the dole keeps electing. How can half of the population be so blinded and naive? They're marching their kids to hell in the name of political correctness, open-borders, and other non-thinking feel-good concepts they don't understand the tip of.

We should go back to the "chain gang" and let low risk prisoners work the fields...work off some of their sentence.

OBAMA,
YOU ARE DOING EVERY THING TO HURT OUR COUNTRY. FIRST IT WAS THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS . WELFARE TO ALL OF THEM THAT CAME OVER FREE FOOD . FREE HEALTH CARE
& MORE NOW THAT YOU WANT ALL MUSLIM OVER TO OUR COUNTRY & GREEN CARD
WHAT NEXT & FREE HOUSE WHY DON'T YOU HAD OVER THE KEY TO OUR COUNTRY
YOU DID EVERY THING. BUT WE GET THE BILL TO PAY FOR THIS WE DO
I PRAY THAT TRUMP GET IN HE SEE WHAT YOU ARE DOING
SO HAVE FUN BUT YOUR TIME WILL COME