Ethnic Turks granted citizenship, welfare
Damn, free housing and furniture including life-long welfare allowances for pensioners and the disabled. And here I am working two full-time jobs just to afford the kind of things those muslims are getting for free! Edited by: Deacon
KRASNODAR, Russia - U.S. authorities have agreed to grant citizenship to 7,000 Turkish Muslims from Russia, who will be settled in Pennsylvania, according to the Russian newspaper Novie Izvestia.
Showing complete disregard for the racial and cultural unassimilability of the migrants, whose homeland is the Ahiska region annexed by Russia in the 19th century, the U.S. government notified the governor of Krasnodar of its decision on February 15. Almost 12,000 Ahiska live in the Krasnodar region.
The Russian government does not automatically treat the Ahiska as citizens, and accordingly does not issue them passports or identification cards. About 5,000 of the total Ahiska population have now applied for and been granted Russian citizenship. An official in the Krasnodar regional government reported last summer than more than 5,000 others had expressed a desire to emigrate to the United States.
Earlier, Chingiz Neiman-zade, chairman of Vatan, a Turkish association based in the Republic of Georgia, said the United States had offered to accept the Ahiska Muslims living in Krasnodar as immigrants.
"On February 16, the International Migration Organization began an information program in Krasnodar to explain the terms for the resettlement of the Ahiska Muslims in the U.S.," he told Chicago Tribune.
"The immigrants will be provided with housing and furniture, they will be helped to learn the English language and to complete formalities needed for residence in the U.S., which is especially important, and have been promised life-long welfare allowances for pensioners and the disabled."
Ahiska Muslims were happy with the American offer.
"This decision marks a great change in our life", said Tepeshon Swanidze, leader of the Ahiska Muslim community in Russia.
The happiness of Americans was not considered in the U.S. decision. American taxpayers will be forced to support the newcomers, whether they like them or not.
Damn, free housing and furniture including life-long welfare allowances for pensioners and the disabled. And here I am working two full-time jobs just to afford the kind of things those muslims are getting for free! Edited by: Deacon