Which immigration program admitted Jiverly Wong to the US?
Posted by acorcoran on April 7, 2009
I’ve been following the shooting rampage in Binghamton, NY for the last few days and am wondering how Wong entered the US. It seems no report ever tells us, only that he “moved” here one day in the early 1990′s. You can’t just “move” to the US and become a citizen “soon afterwards.”
This is from an AP story published in Medeshi, a Somali publication.
Police are still reaching around the world to notify families of those killed Friday by 41-year-old Jiverly Wong, who was apparently upset about losing his job at a vacuum plant and about people picking on him for his limited English. [I don't believe this part about being "picked on" about his English, his letter wasn't that terribly written.]
His victims came from around the globe, including Laos, Mexico, Somalia and the former Soviet republics.
Four Chinese were among those killed, said Zinqi Gao, spokesman for the Chinese consulate in New York. Their names will be released Sunday, he said.
One Chinese student was among the wounded, according to consular officials quoted by China’s official Xinhua News Agency. He was shot in the arm and leg.
Wong was born in Vietnam to a Chinese family. He moved to the U.S. in the early 1990s and soon afterward became a citizen, friends and relatives said.
Was Wong a refugee, an asylee, or what? And, it’s pretty surprising, don’t you think, that we are still taking refugees from Vietnam, twenty years (the 1990′s when Wong arrived) and more after the country got a stable government. In fact, in 2008, we took 1,196 Vietnamese refugees. I thought the leftwingers in the US loved the Communist government of Vietnam; isn’t that what they were all cheering for during the war? Are we admitting there is a problem with Communism by allowing “refugees” to move to the US?
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6 Responses to “Which immigration program admitted Jiverly Wong to the US?”
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gangstalking said
Based on the letter he left, it sounds like he was a target of a practice that is being termed Gang Stalking.
GangStalkingWorld.com
This involved rumours, slander, 24/7 surveillance, constant job loss, moving from place to place, and community harassment. Most targets of this practice commit suicide, or end up being falsly institutionalised. Other just like workplace mobbing, do commit acts of violence.
I suggest that those who care about the people that died, help request his Freedom Of Information Act records, the public has a right to know if these types of ongoing investigation are driving people to acts of violence.
gangstalking said
I think every is look at the wrong issues with these types of shootings and not looking into the real problems.
mark21281 said
I think it does matter from where or under which program he entered. Refugees are supposed to be screened on a variety of criteria. Certainly we don’t need to be admitting people with psychotic tendencies, people who fabricate life stories to get in, people who were known criminals in the refugee camps they came from, etc. In this case though he probably became mentally unstable sometime over the course of the 20 years he’s been in the US, so it could not have been predicted. But we should always ask questions and keep an eye on the government units. They aren’t going to police themselves. In a democracy the People have to do that.
Vanishing American said
Well, why is America responsible for helping anybody who needs help? We have our own people who need help of various kinds, and they are shoved to the back of the line so as to give priority to immigrants, refugees, and others generally.
There is a world out there with billions of people, many of whom, if not most of whom, are poor and in need of some kind of help; how is America able to help them all? Is there no limit to the demands on us to take everybody in and ‘help’ everybody? We are a nation, not a big social service agency or hospital. If that sounds hard-hearted, sorry, some of us are fresh out of sympathy; the demand far exceeds the supply. Are there no people in VietNam or wherever who can help their own?
soro said
The refugees from Vietnam were the ppl that US abandoned in 1975 embassy rooftop evacuation. According to some guesstimate, they are probably a few millions still waiting for the promised to be save.
John Sharma said
It should not matter from where or under which program he entered. He needed help which he did not get on time. I believe that people taunted him for his limited english skill. People make friendly fun of my accent of daily basis which i don’t take seriously but thats the truth. If I with all my degrees get funny remarks for my accent, am sure he did not escape that either. There is threashold for everything and perhaps he had enough.