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| Arabs, Pakistanis Crowd Into Canada To Escape US Terrorism Laws |
| 2003-01-05 |
| Source: World Net Daily Immigration officers at Canadian-U.S. border crossings have been swamped since New Year's Day by a flood of hundreds of undocumented Pakistanis and Arabs attempting to Damn! It's working! "It's too dangerous to stay; I'm too frightened by the mood in the U.S.," Tariq Mohammed, 27, a Pakistani told the Boston Globe. He said he had overstayed a student visa by seven years to take a succession of jobs - the last as assistant manager of a warehouse in Rhode Island. He arrived in Montreal yesterday and hopes Canada will grant him permanent asylum. Only overstayed by seven years? A trifle... "Until 9/11, America had a tolerance for the people who work hard. Even if [we] were technically breaking some law of immigration or legal residency, no one cared," he said. "But now, I am too afraid of arrest and deportation. America is so full of hatred and vengeance toward Muslims." Terrible of bin Laden and his thugs to pee in your soup, wasn't it? "So I come to Canada, a more humanitarian place." "... since they haven't killed thousands of Canucks yet." Under the "smart border" agreement reached by Ottawa and Washington last month, refugee claimants who arrive at Canadian entry points from the United States will, in most cases, automatically be turned back and forced to take their chances under the stricter U.S. system. No firm date has been set for implementing the agreement, but it could take effect as early as spring. "So I'm grabbin' my turban and gettin' out while the gettin' is good..." Similar dramatic increases in refugee applicants, most without passports or carrying questionable documents, occurred at crossings in Fort Erie, Ontario — near Buffalo — and Windsor, Ontario, just across from Detroit. "Hmmm... Hey, Harry! Does Pakistan print its passports on yellow lined paper?" The U.S. Patriot Act, passed in 2001, has given the Justice Department broad powers to detain non-citizens on national security grounds, to hold them in custody indefinitely, or deport them to their countries of origin. Other sweeping new laws and regulations require ''non-permanent'' U.S. residents from at least 20 nations in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa to register with federal authorities by the end of next month, provoking fears of mass deportations. Seems to work kind of like shining a light in a cupboard and watching the roaches run... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 In Canada they are not a problem, they are Liberal voters |
| Posted by: john 2003-01-06 08:51:34 |
| #2 More to the point, now they're Canada's problem. |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-01-05 20:29:08 |
| #1 "technically breaking some law of immigration or legal residency" hmmm? sounds like the pablum served up when they quit calling 'em illegal aliens. Now they're undocumented immigrants |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-01-05 11:57:19 |