Just keeps transforming America. Luckily, I am old enough that I wont see the end of what we knew as America. When it’s the same as the rest of the world, will immigration stop?

JeffT on June 13, 2011 at 2:20 pm

How about having the U.S. Military train each of these Libyans, issue each one an M-16 plus 1,000 rounds of ammo with a few extra magazines. This way, whatever side these guys are on, it will give a competitive advantage to that side, i.e. Qaddafi’s side will win or the Rebel side will win – repeat as necessary – in either outcome, none of OUR GUYS will be killed, Libya will still sell their oil, and all of the fuss will be over. If not, well, MOABs can handle the situation from on-high.

I am s-o-o-o tired of all this crap, aren’t you?

Dennis on June 13, 2011 at 3:07 pm

debbie the only one who sees this.

antonino on June 13, 2011 at 3:12 pm

obama is a dirty lying muslim fraud! end of story! i still cant figure out why the peace prize winner is murdering and maiming people in libya? unless of course he really does want that islamist caliphate to take over.

2012 has been a year pointed at by many and for years as the worst year this earth ever had. and that is the year he will be forced out of a job he does not want to surrender.

bad things coming all because of that half-breed fraud muslim piece of work.

Bill C. on June 13, 2011 at 3:14 pm

how about sending obama to libya to fight kadafy’s troops building by building himself. the gutless half breed wimp no different than the palestinian gutless wheelchair hamas shiek sending out young boys to die.

obama makes carter look like a great president. george washington would turn over …. no, he’d come right out of his grave if he knew what has come to the prsident’s position.

Bill C. on June 13, 2011 at 3:21 pm

You know what, over the weekend I was reading a newspaper around where I live, I happend to read the “voicer-comment” section of the paper, and one person said that “we have to stop any type of immigration for a while, because the majority of the people in this country who are unemployed are US born citizens and immigrants from other nations are taking away jobs that american citizens want”. I read his comment over and over again and I had to agree what he wrote in the comment section.

Now as for Obama doing this crap on bringing Libyan youths to this country by “student visa” is plain old insane from this president. This clearly didn’t start under Obama, this has been going on for years and decades, I remember Bush did the samething during his reign on bringing in Iraqi refugees and Iraqi youths by student visas. I to think that we have to end student visas in this country, because we don’t know what these youths are capable of doing, they might do some type of plot against us or they can be spies and send information back to their native country?

“A nation is defined by it’s borders, language & culture!”

Sean R. on June 13, 2011 at 4:37 pm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43331744/ns/us_news-life/t/islamic-education-rise-us-struggle-acceptance/

Speaking of skool on June 13, 2011 at 5:29 pm

Dennis writes, “How about having the U.S. Military train each of these Libyans, issue each one an M-16 plus 1,000 rounds of ammo with a few extra magazines.”

It’s not like either side is especially short on weaponry. Qadaffi was getting regular resupplies from Russia and Syria, according to some reports, until recently. Meanwhile (according to other reports), rebels have been selling some of the captured munitions and, with Iranian help, smuggling them to … Hamas in Gaza. Once again US fecklessness is not only making the coming war against Israel more likely, but more deadly as well.

Raymond in DC on June 13, 2011 at 5:34 pm

Well, I guess the US Government has its favorites and unfavorites. I remember not so long ago when the government decided to restrict the immigration of Jewish refugees trying to escape from Russia (late 80s and early 90s) because of the out-of-control anti-semitism in that country. But of course Muslim terrorists make better immigrants.

Little Al on June 13, 2011 at 5:58 pm

With 9% unemployment, gas $3.84 a gallon, it seems to me one person should get that pink slip in 2013 – Barack Hussein Obama.

He isn’t looking out for us. And like the old, true and trite saying has it, “its the economy, stupid!”

NormanF on June 13, 2011 at 6:00 pm

JeffT….sad, but I could not agree with you more. I don’t how we got here, and I don’t know how we could reverse course. This country has already had one revolution, so the notion of another isn’t all that unfamiliar. Every so often, I run the filter in my pool. Where is the cancer, and how G-d can we stop it?

#1 Vato on June 13, 2011 at 9:23 pm

[Adjusts Cowboy Hat] Now when can we start playing Cowboys and Muslims™?

Macker on June 13, 2011 at 9:36 pm

“And like the old, true and trite saying has it, “its the economy, stupid!””

No, it’s not “old, true and trite” – it was a dumb campaign meme thought up by that bald, squinty political strategist for KKKlinton in ’96. Yeesh.

DS_ROCKS! on June 14, 2011 at 2:33 am

really? “Where is the cancer”?

Erm…1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

DS_ROCKS! on June 14, 2011 at 2:34 am

Normally, student visa holders cannot hold a job or work for pay.

Does that include work-study jobs?

Miranda Rose Smith on June 14, 2011 at 6:24 am

I’ll bet all those butt-snorkelers and political fellatio/anilingus artists up in ice HQ are patting themselves on the back for a job well done. Never mind all the criminal and ethical BS they pulled to get where they are; they get a pass where the troops in the field got it broke off in their a**es for innocuous crap.

Sit back and watch the fallout from this come around….

ice – ‘Ineptitude Comes Easy”

IceNoMore on June 14, 2011 at 6:33 am

More insanity from the Obama Administration.

Tanstaafl on June 14, 2011 at 9:33 am

Debbie,

I will start by saying that when a person emigrates to a country he is in fact making a statement about how he prefers very much the culture of that country over his and his willings to amalgamate in it. This is the equivalent of converting from a religion to another religion. However in religious conversions other strenuous factors do come in the picture.

I have said once before that I was born in Egypt. I came here some 50 years ago. Believe it or not I am more attached to my USA citizenship than to any other affiliation. If I have to fight against Egypt, I will without hesitation or qualms.

The Usa is playing a high wire game. She is hoping that these people will acclimatise and then convey their experience to their mother nations and may be convert them to see the benefits of Americanization. This is a 50/50 game. It is not safe but is worth the gamble. That is what adventerous Americans feel.

I did not think that I will live to see the throne prince of Saudi Arabia meets a western female secretary of state and her westernized Moslem saudi assistant and shake hands with them and even kiss the Secretary of State. This was absolutely anathema for the Wahhabis and the Moslems as a rule. But the rule was broken. He might have went to ablute after that but that his ass that he will have to wash after shaking hands with a woman.

I admire your intelligence and humor but I also think that you are a bit tilted towards ignoring what the other side have.

G. R. SCHAROUBIM on June 14, 2011 at 10:54 am

@ G. R. SCHAROUBIM – if indeed you feel allegiance to the USA over your allegiance to Islam and more precisely the instillation of Islamic values to supersede our country’s Constitutional basis, then you are the exception rather than the rule. Plus, I would bet that you are lying.

Just like one might encounter a friendly, playful Cane Corso who knows his own strength and the fear he instills in others might be possible, but I’d still never let my kid assume that all Cane Corsos are friendly dogs until proven otherwise. That would be idiotic.

DS_ROCKS! on June 14, 2011 at 6:40 pm

But, but, but are they islamonazis? Wouldn’t that put Americans in danger?

Blanket idiocy is Hussein O’s modus operandi.

John P on June 16, 2011 at 2:59 am

This is a joke, right?

Mary on June 16, 2011 at 4:01 pm

The rampant fear and ignorance here is amazing. Every single muslim is against us? Every student is here to steal jobs? Guess what, if these are jobs that are open legally, then they can’t undercut on wages or working illegal extra hours. These people are being given the opportunity to make a living, and America citizens still have every opportunity to apply for those same jobs.

DS_ROCKS!, your mistrust and bias is staggering. For a group of people who profess to love America so much, you are quite willing to throw away the ideals that built it, to provide a thin false wall of security for your own fearful life. Liberty requires acceptance and risk.

“All men are created equal” and “Innocent until proven guilty” are not just for Americans. Deal with it or leave.

Mike on June 16, 2011 at 5:08 pm

fuck obama!!!!!!!

cody rhodes on June 16, 2011 at 7:23 pm

Why should they be able to get assistance that native students aren’t able to get? My son couldn’t get a loan because he had an unpaid medical bill; he had to move home and now he can’t find a job or continue school. My daughter and her husband haven’t had good, steady jobs since graduation (he graduated 18 months ago;she graduated this spring)and now her loans are coming due. It costs as much in Illinois to go to the U of I as I make in a year. Our kids are coming home to live because they can’t finish school and make a living. Maybe they should go home to live if they can’t finish school. We have violence here, too; just last week our home was visited by intruders who stole our stuff, but what’s more that that, they took our peace of mind and security, too.

Leann on June 16, 2011 at 8:35 pm

“Mikey”…get your head out of the sand. What will happen here is that, even though these jobs will be above board, the Libyans will get the nod because they’ll be viewed as “minorities” as well as “poor students”. In this day and age of political correctness and pandering, this will be the new-age version of affirmative action….same dog, different collar. It’s not so much about reading the article as it is reading what’s between the lines. That’s how you read government policy.

On that, let me clarify that I don’t have a bigoted bone in my body…I merely call it like I see it!

IceNoMore on June 17, 2011 at 9:35 am

So, although they cannot get loans or grants, they CAN now work their way through college. While my kids cannot find even a PART time job, (one a recent grad, one in college), it seems that natural born Americans (regardless of color) are no longer a priority to the POTUS.

I know who the favorites are, and the are not sons and daughters of the American revolution, or of Cherokee or Kickapoo ancestry, with ancestors who fought with honor and courage on BOTH sides of the Civil war, or whose great grandfather received medals for his service in WWII.

americanmom on June 17, 2011 at 11:15 am

IceNoMore, there’s no incentive for anyone to hire a foreign student over an American. There is incentive to hire qualified workers. I don’t see how this is political correctness or pandering. It seems to me that many Americans these days aren’t willing to put up or shut up. You want the job? Work for it. Capitalism is economic natural selection, and many who oppose these measures and any others that don’t discriminate against immigrants want to just remove the competition.

Let’s be honest with each other here, the jobs opened up by this to foreign students isn’t law positions and CFOs of major companies. You don’t see so many immigrants working convenience stores because they stole those jobs from hard working, humble, American youths, it’s because we’ve raised an entitled generation who think that certain jobs are beneath them. The story of immigrants, whether they are middle eastern, central American or other wise stealing good jobs from natural born Americans is a myth. Our economy runs on the backs of immigrants working jobs most (not all) people born here think are beneath them.

My head is well above the sand and looking clearly at the world.

AmericanMom, if your kids can’t find work, what makes you think there are jobs out there for these other kids?

Unless you’re a Native American, you come from immigrants, each of whom was at one point considered an unwanted minority. To suddenly claim that we deserve something the new generation of Americans does not is ridiculous.

Mike on June 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm

it is hard enough with the hate in this world. we need to put as much energy into peace as we have in hate.no more people in our borders. without war. maybe without our government.

ken on June 17, 2011 at 2:24 pm

Thanks dear Americans. We no more need your jobs or financial support. We have got our assets released and our funding is restored by our government.2500 Libyan students are contributing in creating more jobs for the Americans and NOT taking their jobs. we pay our health insurance, graduate tuition and monthly allowances from our own money.So we are spending billions of dollars in the USA each year. we are bringing Dollars and not taking them.Finally I was disappointed by some commentators who probably commented without reading the article and were mislead by the title” Take American Jobs”. There aren’t any American Jobs that we would take. I ask those who showed much prejudice toward those students to come up with any statistics that would show how many Libyan students got employed or got any kind of help during their finical crisis. we are simply students who found their country in a middle of a crisis because our assesses were frozen by a UN resolution and were denied access to their assesses .We are not here to ask for American scholarships, charities, immigration, jobs, green card or anything. We are here to for education that we pay for.The Americans do not pay a single penny to us, rather we pay to all the related institutions from our own money.Libya is the Second Oil producing Country in Africa with only 5 million population. we are rich in money,but we have a dictator we has been in power for 42 years. We asked him to step down in peaceful demonstrations,but he used excessive force and killed demonstrators by hundreds.We are still struggling to oust him with the help of the international community. It may take a while,but we are determined to fight to the end and get our freedom and those students are waiting for the moment to go back and contribute to the development of new Libya.Thanks again and I ask for objectivity truthfulness from the blogger.

A Libyan Student in the USA on June 23, 2011 at 1:51 pm