Posted on 09/04/2015 4:21:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley thinks the U.S. response to the Syrian refugee crisis isn’t strong enough. President Obama has proposed taking in between 5,000 and 8,000 refugees this year. But O’Malley believes we need to admit nearly 10 times that number.
“I support the call from humanitarian and refugee organizations for the United States to accept at least 65,000 Syrian refugees next year,” he said in a statement Friday. “If Germany — a country with one-fourth our population — can accept 800,000 refugees this year, certainly we — the nation of immigrants and refugees — can do more.”Syrian refugees are flooding Europe following the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Syrians due to ethnic violence in the Middle East. The migrant crisis has engulfed Europe, leading many to ask whether the U.S. would take refugees from the continued fighting in Syria.
O’Malley said the number of refugees the U.S. is scheduled to accept next year is insufficient.
“Americans are a generous and compassionate people. But today our policies are falling short of those values. We must do more to support Syrian refugees — and we must certainly welcome more than the proposed 5,000 to 8,000 refugees next year,” he said.
The former Maryland governor said images such as that of a toddler’s body washing up on a Turkish beach should motivate the U.S. to do more.
“With more than 4 million Syrian refugees fleeing war and famine, they now comprise the second-largest refugee population in the world. As Europe is becoming increasingly aware, we are not immune from the injustices and tragedies that unfold outside our borders.” he said.
While we should recognize that this is a global problem brought about, at least partly, by the lack of leadership of the U.S. in Syria, Libya, and other conflict areas in the Middle East and Africa, the bottom line remains we can’t help everybody. The Middle East is being emptied of human beings because rancid people are doing very bad things to their own citizens, and terrorists are doing even worse things to others. The fact is, however, there are safer places for these refugees closer to home. It’s just that the fantastically rich Gulf states — and let’s include our newfound friends in Tehran — are refusing to be part of the solution and continue to be part of the problem.
The Gulf states are financing Muslim extremists all across the region, hoping to by them off so that the contagion will bypass their fabulously wealthy monarchies. They have no intention of importing hundreds of thousands of desperate Muslims who may upset the precarious balance maintained by ruthless force in their countries. They have the room. They have the cash. But they lack the courage to do what’s right and thus wait upon the western democracies to become guilty enough to take them all.
In truth, 65,000 refugees is a drop in the bucket compared to the numbers of people who sneak in illegally to the U.S. every year. But accepting that many refugees would only invite an exodus to our shores. The human smugglers are resourceful and clever. And while the ships used to make the short crossing from Africa to Greece or Turkey would never stand the gaff of a cross-Atlantic trip, welcoming so many migrants would only encourage the traffickers to find ways to reach our shores.
The numbers crossing over to Europe are growing with no end in sight. Unless a quick end is found for the Syrian civil war and a strategy is devised to deal effectively with ISIS, we risk a humanitarian calamity the likes of which have not been seen in modern times.
Syrian lives matter. Oops, he’d better not say that.
Maybe he’s hoping if they come here they will all vote Democrat
All the Rats care about is more voters. Get them hooked on government aid and they’ll vote Rat for life.
Just how large IS 0’Mally’s house?
How many is he willing to adopt or sponsor?
Syria should take Martin and 64,999 of his closest friends.
It's not like you plan on living hear any of them or anything.
Wonder who put it in his head that he has a shot at the White House.
Only if they get o’Malley,hillary and obama in an exchange.
Is there a minimum quota of Muslim terrorists that should be included in that amount or will any number do?
Send them to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and to Chappaqua. Obama and Hillary allowed/caused this to happen; let them pay the consequences.
Typical Obama/Alinsky/leftist tactic. Low-ball the number and then have your underlings in the DNC or left-wing agitator groups call for more, and then "reluctantly" agree to more while at the same time talking about the need to "balance" the needs of American taxpayers.
Any sane Marylander (a minority) or ex-like moi, knew that O’Malley was insane once he became governor and laid out his Marxist programs and ideology.
At least he is now consistently revealing it every time he opens his mouth.
If only the voters of Maryland had a brain because then they would never have elected this POS.
Martin O’Malley calls himself a Pope Francis Catholic.
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Why stop at 65,000? Why not he entire population?
Rush reported today that Obama wants 300,000.
Perhaps people will begin to connect the dots behind the Hillary Clinton goal to remove gatekeeper Muammar Gaddafi
Maybe people will begin to understand the Rivkin Project
Maybe, just maybe, people will awaken to why the EU was willing to pay Gaddafi €5 Billion to keep the North African migration under control.
Bill Warner explains this sudden mass migration is doctrinal Islam:
It's called the hijrahALL ISLAMIC IMMIGRATION has a hidden political agenda.
We see this in the very calendar that Islam uses. The Islamic calendar does not begin with the revelation of the qur'an, nor the birth of Mohammad. Instead, the Islamic calendar begins when Mohammad migrated from Mecca to Medina. Why pick this date out? Because it was the beginning of the success of Islam. It marked the beginning of political Islam.
Mohammad preached the religion Islam for thirteen years in Mecca and persuaded only 150 Arabs to become Muslims. However, when he left Mecca and went to Medina, he 'migrated' from one to the other, he became a politician and jihadist and, ten years later, when he died, EVERY Arab was a Muslim. That is to say, migration began the process of becoming political. And with politics and jihad, came success to Islam. Know this: Every Muslim is commanded in ninety-one verses in the qur'an to emulate Mohammad in everything that he said and everything that he did. So this means that the Muslim is to imitate Mohammad and therefore, when he enters into a new host country, a poltical process begins. This political process starts with, "Well, we're Muslims and our religion means that we need to have special rooms for prayer, have special food, halal, whatever. Their demands that our clothing be different."
Islam begins the process of pulling away from the host country, and saying, We must be different because we are Muslims."
You need to know that every Muslim is not an individual, but actually is part of an Ummah, a larger body; the community of Islam. Within this community there are leaders who are the activists. Every member of the Ummah is commanded to obey his leaders. This makes Islam a very powerful politial block.
Islam starts immigration, it starts a political process and Islamizing the host country. This is what makes it very different from any other form of immigration.
Only if they're the Christians who are getting slaughtered (and vetted first). We can deport 65,000 of obomas muslm imports to make room for them. (It isn't the Christians who are vowing to kill us. It would be a logical trade.)
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