>At 05:18 PM 7/10/00 -0700, Robert wrote: > >>WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton has authorized legal entry into the >>United States for 80,000 refugees in fiscal 2001, including some from >>the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union. > >Most Russian "refugees" are Jews. Unlike the other INS categories, there >is no numerical cap for refugees, and they are immediately eligible for >extra benefits. > >In a September 1997 column, syndicated columnist Charles Reese wrote: "The >U.S. refugee program has become a racket. The Refugee Act of 1980 needs to >be repealed, especially the 1989 Lautenberg Amendment." That amendment, >named after its chief sponsor, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), was introduced >with the intention of helping Soviet Jews. All they needed to prove was >that they were Jewish and had, at some time or other, lived in the >now-defunct USSR. That was accepted as prima facie evidence that they were >the victims of specific discrimination and therefore eligible for refugee >status--and all the goodies that go with it. Reese wrote, "Ordinary >immigrants must work or live off the largesse of their sponsors; refugees >qualify for a ton of public benefits the day they set foot on U.S. soil." > >Russian Jews were also being looked out for under cover of the so-called >Freedom from Religious Persecution Act in 1997. In an article entitled >"Persecution Complex," in the 11/10 National Review, Don Barnett wrote: > >"The stated goal of the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act, sponsored >by Rep. Frank Wolf (RVA) and Sen. Arlen Specter (RPA), is to help eradicate >religious persecution around the world--a laudable goal, but one the bill >is unlikely to achieve. It imposes economic sanctions on persecuting >countries, but, except for the specific case of Sudan, those sanctions are >weak, and can be waived at any time by the President. Meanwhile, the bill >contains refugee and asylum provisions that could have a significant >effect--not toward the bill's stated purpose of mitigating religious >persecution, but rather in terms of leading to substantial increases in the >numbers immigrating to the United States as refugees and asylum-seekers." > >According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (F.A.I.R.), >U.S. Immigration laws allow 50,000 Soviet Jews (1/3 of all refugees) to >come to the United States each year; this came about as a result of the >1989 Lautenberg Amendment to The Refugee Act of 1980. Efforts to raise >refugee admissions by as much as 40 per cent in 1998 had the backing of >Sen. Spencer Abraham (R,MI), chairman of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee. > >The American Immigration Control Foundation (AICF) commissioned a study by >Don Barnett, and one of its conclusions was that "According to the FBI, >about half of the 4,000 'Russian' mobsters operating in the United States >arrived as refugees under the Lautenberg Amendment." The article states >further, "it should be noted that U.S. officials call refugees from Russia >and from the ex-USSR 'Russian'. Most aren't." > >The Christian Science Monitor (10/8) reported that Israel, which has been >inundated with expatriates from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), has also >discovered that the refugee population is generously seeded with >well-connected mobsters. As a result, "Russian expatriates are using >Israel as a base for international money laundering and trying to >infiltrate or influence Israeli economic, political, and security >establishments." > >One of the most notorious gangsters to seek refuge in Israel is Grigori >Loutchansky, the KGB-trained Latvian who heads Nordex, the Vienna-based KGB >front that specializes in arms and drug smuggling, as well as money >laundering. Wanted by nearly every national law enforcement and >intelligence agency in the Western world, Loutchansky was able to finagle a >facetoface meeting with Bill Clinton, after which Mr. Clinton commissioned >the gangster as an intermediary in nuclear diplomacy with Ukraine. This >happened at a time when Loutchansky's firm was implicated in a scheme to >smuggle nuclear materials to North Korea. > >Loutchansky went on the lam in 1995, and failing to find any other country >that would take him, he claimed a "RIGHT OF RETURN" to Israel based on his >Jewish ancestry. The new book One Point Safe, by Andrew and Leslie >Cockburn, reports that "the Israeli police duly noted how skies over the >eastern Mediterranean darkened with charter jets in February 1995, carrying >such leading lights of the Moscow underworld as Iosif Kobzon (described by >the CIA as the "Tsar and kingpin" of the Russian Mafia) as they flew in for >Loutchansky's lavish fiftieth birthday celebrations in the resort town of >Eilat." > >According to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, by the end of >the 1998 election cycle, New Jersey senator Frank Lautenberg had accepted a >career total of $419,806 from the pro-Israel PACs. > >MOB > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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