Chris Hedges: Why Israel Lies

[JDPriestly]

143. Those are the questions that should be raised in negotiations.

Many Palestinians settled down in the metropolitan areas of New York City and Paterson[3][4] in Northern New Jersey, as well as California, Phoenix, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland alongside other Mediterranean communities, including the Lebanese, Syrians, Turks, Greeks, Italians, and Egyptians.

According to the 2000 United States Census, there were 72,112 people of Palestinian ancestry living in the United States, increasing to 83,241 by the 2006-2010 American Community Survey.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_American

After WWII, there were so many war refugees. They went all over the world -- Australia, the US, Canada, the British Protectorate, all over the world. That is what usually happens to refugees from wars.

Remember, the British Protectorate was divided to find a place to live for Jewish refugees from WWII.

The US took a lot of refugees after WWII.

President Harry S. Truman favored a liberal immigration policy toward DPs. Faced with congressional inaction, he issued an executive order, the "Truman Directive," on December 22, 1945. The directive required that existing immigration quotas be designated for displaced persons. While overall immigration into the United States did not increase, more DPs were admitted than before. About 22,950 DPs, of whom two-thirds were Jewish, entered the United States between December 22, 1945, and 1947 under provisions of the Truman Directive.

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President Harry S. Truman favored a liberal immigration policy toward DPs. Faced with congressional inaction, he issued an executive order, the "Truman Directive," on December 22, 1945. The directive required that existing immigration quotas be designated for displaced persons. While overall immigration into the United States did not increase, more DPs were admitted than before. About 22,950 DPs, of whom two-thirds were Jewish, entered the United States between December 22, 1945, and 1947 under provisions of the Truman Directive.

Congressional action was needed before existing immigration quotas could be increased. In 1948, following intense lobbying by the American Jewish community, Congress passed legislation to admit 400,000 DPs to the United States. Nearly 80,000 of these, or about 20 percent, were Jewish DPs. The rest were Christians from Eastern Europe and the Baltics, many of whom had been forced laborers in Germany. The entry requirements favored agricultural laborers to such an extent, however, that President Truman called the law "flagrantly discriminatory against Jews." Congress amended the law in 1950, but by that time most of the Jewish DPs in Europe had gone to the newly established state of Israel (founded on May 14, 1948).

By 1952, 137,450 Jewish refugees (including close to 100,000 DPs) had settled in the United States. The amended 1948 law was a turning point in American immigration policy and established a precedent for later refugee crises.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007094

The United States provides refuge to persons who have been persecuted or have a well-founded
fear of persecution through two programs: a refugee program for persons outside the U.S. and their
immediate relatives and an asylum program for persons in the U.S. and their immediate relatives.
This Office of Immigration Statistics
Annual Flow Report
provides information on the number of
persons admitted to the United States as refugees or granted asylum in the United States in 2012.
1
A total of 58,179 persons
2
were admitted to the United
States as refugees during 2012 (see Figure 1). The lead
-
ing countries of nationality for refugees were Bhutan,
Burma, and Iraq. During 2012, 29,484 individuals were
granted asylum,
3
including 17,506 who were granted
asylum affirmatively by the Department of Homeland
Security
4
(DHS) and 11,978 who were granted asylum
defensively by the Department of Justice (see Figure 2).
The leading countries of nationality for persons granted
either affirmative or defensive asylum were China,
Egypt, and Ethiopia. Documents for travel to the United
States were issued to 13,049 individuals who were
approved for derivative asylum status while located
abroad. The leading countries of nationality for the
recipients of follow-to-join travel documents were
China, Haiti, and Nepal. In addition to those approved
overseas, 1,028 individuals were approved for derivative
asylum status while residing in the United Stat

http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ois_rfa_fr_2012.pdf

There are two WWII refugees in my family in my generation. (By marriage.) We are not that large a family.

We have family members from Asia, South America and Africa. Married into our family.

The US probably would not take any refugee who was associated with a terrorist group.

So, you never know what kind of a deal would be worked out.