Posted on 07/16/2014 10:00:00 PM PDT by bryan999
Governor Deval Patrick on Wednesday said he wanted to find a way for Massachusetts to help alleviate the crisis of children seeking to cross the US-Mexico border, avoiding the type of feud with the White House into which other governors have been drawn, and invoking powerful imagery as his motivation.
“My inclination is to remember what happened when a shipful of Jewish children tried to come to the United States in 1939 and the United States turned them away, and many of them went to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps,” Patrick said when a reporter asked how he viewed the border crisis. “I think we are a bigger-hearted people than that as Americans, and certainly as residents of Massachusetts.”
He added, “Now getting from there to a practical solution, I have not done yet. I’m trying to think that through.”
Patrick said his immediate challenge was finding where in Massachusetts to house the children as the federal government, which he said would pay for the assistance, determines how to handle the nearly 60,000 children estimated to have migrated from Central America.
The message from the federal government, Patrick said, was essentially: “What can you do if anything to help shelter these children while they’re being processed?”
Estimates for how many children Massachusetts could be asked to shelter, he said, had not yet arrived.
“They’re not saying and haven’t asked that we take a certain number,” Patrick said.
His invocation of the Holocaust appears to correspond to the story of the St. Louis, a ship that sailed from Germany in the spring of 1939 carrying roughly 900 Jewish refugees. The ship was forced to return to Europe, where more than a quarter are known to have died in the Holocaust, according to the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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So does this mean we’re supposed to carpet bomb Tegucigalpa and San Salvador?
Then we obviously need to declare war on ALL those counties, invade them and wipe out everyone in their govts. Then set up a rebuilding program like done for Germany post 1945.
You want to make parallels? Let’s go there with the logic.
The Governor is not an American, but a Neoeuropan.
His wordf carry no weight
Funny he doesn’t mention the planes of these young “refugees” who have already landed in the suburbs of Boston. Where are those kids?
I live in a small town in Ma. Up the street there are some empty military houses owned by the Coast Guard. I told my wife last night to get used to locking the house and our cars. We are about to get about a hundred new neighbors that can’t speak a word of English. And get used to the sound of the roosters in the morning.
One would hope...
Can you imagine the adulation the guy would get throughout eternity, if something did happen to him? Tell me that wouldn’t frost you in perpetuity.
You know, this goes with the game plan that has been touched on here, moving the underprivileged into middle class neighborhoods. They’ll do anything they can to destroy anything decent in this nation.
Our school system is hanging on a thread and they will be dumping around 50 kids into the system, even my neighbor who is a teacher in town knows this is going to be a cluster eff.
I had to give up sending my kids to public school in the early 1980s, because they were being ordered to sit in the back and read while the teachers taught the rest of the class English.
You’re very lucky it’s only 50, believe me.
I mean Patrick, and not literal shooting as with a gun or arrow, but outlines the whole sad litany of the Holocaust once more and shows Patrick up to be foolish. He’s just asking for that.
Oh, DO send in the clowns, Barack.
I agree. Sorry to have moved this off to Obama on you.
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