Iraqis are entering U.S. through Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

Iraqis are entering U.S. through Mexico
Most are Chaldeans; smuggling probed
By Sandra Dibble
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
December 28, 2006

TIJUANA – U.S. and Mexican immigration agencies are investigating the arrival of small groups of Iraqis at the border in the past week and their possible connection to smuggling organizations.

Baja California agents and Mexican federal immigration officers found a group of four Friday night at a Tijuana hotel. In addition, two groups of about two or three Iraqis turned themselves in earlier this week to U.S. inspectors at the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports of entry, asking for political asylum.

“We've continued to see a steady trickle of Iraqis coming into the United States through Mexico, requesting asylum once they're in the United States,” said Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego.

The vast majority of Iraqis who show up along the California border are members of the Chaldean Christian minority who are drawn by San Diego's sizable Chaldean community. Their numbers today are nowhere near those of six years ago, when Tijuana was a major transit point for Chaldeans trying to get to the United States.
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20061228-9999-7m28chaldean.html

[BushOut06]

1. Terra Terra Terra!

Gotta keep them brown-skinned folks out at all cost!

[Roland99]

9. Oh, but wait. These are CHRISTIANS! They obviously aren't a terror threat.

:sarcasm:

[Acadia Blue]

15. They need to find out who they are before they let them cross. If

they are not Mexicans, they should be identified

[Kikosexy2]

17. The Mexiraqis ...

are coming!!!!....Oh the terror!

[sam sarrha]

19. like Bu$h the Christian isn't a Terrorist threat killing a ~1/4 million Muslim Iraqi citizens,,??

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. There are half-a-million...

...Iraqis so tainted by association with our disastrous involvment in their country that when we leave, they will be faced with a choice of coffins or suitcases.

I expect that we will try to hang them out to dry, and then, reluctantly, admit them and treat them like shit.

Another way that Iraq is like Vietnam on crank.

[Igel]

11. Yes, but in this case their association is merely being

"Christian". No distinction is seen between sects and no need for any of the "collaborators" and "traitors" to actually ever have seen an American in Iraq or support what the US is doing in Iraq.

Welcome to communalism of a religious nature. It's fiercely condemned in the West, and frequently practiced elsewhere. What's strange is to see people who condemn it in the West try to justify it when it's done elsewhere.

[Davis_X_Machina]

12. The fate of the Nestorians...

...is separate, to some extent, from what I was mentioning.

Iraqi Christians, because they face a well-founded fear of death or persecution on religious grounds if they remain, should be a slam dunk under existing asylum laws -- the fact that we blew up their country, and did it in such a way that it was guaranteed from the get-go to make their predicament worse is just icing on the cake.

I was referring to the influx -- and we have to start thinking about it now, and not rely on the usual half-assed ad-hoc-ery that characterizes BushCo's approach to Mesopotamia, and everything else -- of our Iraqi drivers, translators, contractors, employees, etc, and their families out to about the second cousin level -- whose lives aren't worth a plug nickel once we bug out.

[slackmaster]

3. Dang furriners all look the same, I tell yuz!

:argh:

ETA we already have about 25,000 Iraqi expatriates (including children born here) in San Diego County.

Almost every convenience store, liquor store, independent grocery store, and most of the pizza parlors within a few miles of my home are run by Chaldeans.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Interesting but not surprising. Where did we think all the refugees would

go?

The Sunnis and Shiites have neighboring Countries like themselves but where do the Christian Iraqis feel safe going?

[mrcheerful]

5. This is new? Come on, we all knew that it wasn't just "mexicans" that crossed

the border. Stupid republicans, after 6 yars they finally figured out something we democratics knew for 50 years, at least.

[ck4829]

6. K&R to expose the refugee crisis in Iraq

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Blowback: the end of 2,000 years of christianity in the region.

As usual the consequences of imperial idiocy are rarely the intended consequences.

[madeline_con]

8. When are they gonna start the WALL?

DUH-bya was right! We'll have to fight them HERE!

:hide:

[ChazII]

13. Isn't /wasn't/it going to be a

virtual wall?

[rman]

10. Those people got to go some place,

now that they've been bombed out of their homeland.

[Melynn]

14. I would like to see them go to Crawford, Texas

Seems appropriate.

[butterfly77]

16. I have been hearing this for few years now...

are they just getting around to reporting it...There could be a million in country by now...

[maxsolomon]

18. they should be recieving asylum

they are refugess from a war we started.