Immigration Policy That Will End the Iraq War

Posted by Mary Mancini on April 22, 2007 under Uncategorized |

Here’s one for Waxman, Conyers, Rangel, or heck, maybe even Cooper. While Congress is in the process of hammering out legislation for both immigration policy and the Iraq war, Democrats should introduce and pass legislation that requires the United States to admit, as full citizens, one Iraqi refugee for each Iraqi civilian killed (retroactive to March 20, 2003).

Conservative estimates of civilians killed by military intervention in Iraq: 62,281.

This war has decimated the civilian population of Iraq. The infrastructure and the healthcare system have been destroyed forcing a total of four million people to leave their homes. Jordan and Syria have taken in about 2 million refugees but others in the region - Kuwait and Saudi Arabia - have completely sealed their borders.

The majority of Americans who support comprehensive immigration reform is very close to the number that support an end to the Iraq war - between 60 and 70%. A “1 for 1 Iraqi Immigration Match” policy might just bring along the rest - the people I like to call the “Thirty Percenters” (nativists who do not accept the reality of global climate change and still want to have a beer with Geroge Bush). My wild guess is that they won’t like the idea and with 100% of the American people against the war, how can we do anything else but pull out?