Goode question: Would immigration reform have kept out Muslim convert Ellison?
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 3:30 pm
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In a letter reportedly sent to hundreds of constituents, Virginia Republican Rep. Virgil Goode warned what will happen if America doesn’t “adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration”:
“[T]here will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran. We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.”
After specifically referencing “the Muslim Representative from Minnesota,” Goode states, “We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.”
A problem with his logic: curtailing immigration wouldn’t have prevented Keith Ellison from “demanding the use of the Koran.”
A US citizen from birth, Ellison converted to Islam when he was 19.
Read the letter here.
Update: The Smoking Gun has a copy of the actual letter.
2 Comments
Comment posted December 21, 2006 @ 10:05 am
Another Pesky Immigrant Family for Allah Ellison apparently can trace his ancestors’ arrival in America to 1742, so all Goode would have to do to fix this Muslim immigrant problem would be to go back to the good old days before there was a Constitution and deport those furriners retroactively.
Comment posted December 21, 2006 @ 4:05 am
Another Pesky Immigrant Family for Allah Ellison apparently can trace his ancestors' arrival in America to 1742, so all Goode would have to do to fix this Muslim immigrant problem would be to go back to the good old days before there was a Constitution and deport those furriners retroactively.
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