Saturday, May 15, 2010
Are We Nuts?
Whilst perusing the Homeland Security website here, I came across the fact that, in 2009, the United States granted permanent residency status to these numbers of immigrants from the following countries:
Pakistan 21,555
Iran 18,553
Somalia 13,390
Iraq 12,111
Venezuela 11,154
Afghanistan 3,165
Yemen 3.134
Syria 2,442
Saudi Arabia 1,418
North Korea 67
We even granted permanent residency status to 1,366 people whose former country was unknown. I don't know about you, but this doesn't make me feel very homeland secure. And given what has happened recently with the Times Square bomber being a recently naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, the obvious question comes to mind for Janet Napolitano: Are we cuckoo-pie nuts?
P.S., for those who believe that we are not doing enough to help our impoverished southern neighbor, we issued 164,920 green cards to Mexicans in 2009.
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