Lebanon situation
A longtime St. Louis reader named Josh Capps has a fiance named Nadine, a PhD student who recently went to Lebanon to visit her mom and is now having trouble getting out due to the hostilities. He's gotten his fiance on the evacuation list, though she's behind a lot of others. Capps is asking me to pass along requests to readers to contact their House reps and Senators with the specific request of broadening the parameters of the evacuees to include special-case permanent residents and student visas. For what it's worth...
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 17, 2006 at 8:12 PM
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Daniel Zelter says ...
Why it won't happen.
20 years ago...
Ronald Reagan: Of course I won't take into those Guatemalan refugees I'm paying the CIA to slaughter. Those brown mongrels would contaminate our proud, white, English-speaking nation.
20 years later:
George W. Bush: As a compassionate conservative who promotes the culture of life, Jesus told me that it's best that those A-rab heathens be bombed into submission. Yeah, it means killing off the Christians living over there, too, but they'll be saved anyway, so I got nuttin' to feel guilty about, cus I'm doin' the Lord's work.
Posted by Daniel Zelter at July 18, 2006 12:40 AM
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Waveflux says ...
To Josh Capps: St. Louis media are interested in the story. Please reply and I'll pass along the info.
Posted by Waveflux at July 18, 2006 2:00 PM
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Max says ...
There are approximately 40,000 Lebanese with Canadian citizenship, the majority of whom are "special case permanent residents" in Lebanon. With the onset of these hostilities, the Canadian government is now faced with the enormous cost of getting these people out of Lebanon, even though they don't reside here or pay taxes here. They come here, get citizenship and then go back - hedging bets. You gamble, you lose. We have to help first the people who reside in this country and are "accidental tourists" in Lebanon. I don't know about America, but we simply don't have the resources to help the thousands of Taiwanese; for example, holding dual citizenship and living permanently in Taiwan, should the Chinese decide to invade Taiwan. It's time to review the whole concept of dual citizenship.
Posted by Max at July 19, 2006 5:32 AM