Posted on 02/01/2020 11:36:14 AM PST by EyesOfTX
A local Middle Tennessee Talk Radio and the Tennessee Star Report have been addressing the issue of Refugee Resettlement for the last several months. The crux of the issue is how Bill Lee, the new RINO Governor of Tennessee, has said yes to bringing in refugees who are – reportedly – from primarily the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar (Burma); real Republican Governors in Texas and Florida, for example, have said no to the resettlement.
This is a national issue as all states supposedly have a say in the resettling of refugees.
According to the discussion, in 1980 (Jimmy Carter of the Mariel (Cuba) boat lift fiasco), a refugee law was passed to accept a certain limited number (approximately 18,000) of refugees every year. During the Obama years, that number rose to approximately 90,000 annually, and Hillary Clinton campaigned on at least doubling it, as if we can order up refugees like we were ordering stuff from Amazon. These “refugees” were often just dumped on unsuspecting locals and many have become a separate colony unto themselves, with their own standards, customs and in some cases, laws – see Omar’s and Tlaib’s congressional districts for examples.
President Trump signed an executive order essentially reinforcing the 1980 law and reduced the number of allowed refugees back to the 18,000; essentially 20 percent of the Obama number. In the EO, – since corrupted by the “interpretation” of federal bureaucrats – state and local county governments were to be allowed to refuse the resettlement of these refugees. Tennessee’s Governor Lee usurped the local provision and joined many other Democratic and some Republican governors in accepting the refugees without county approval or legislative debate. It is now being hotly debated in the legislature and at the local and county levels.
Lee appeared on a different radio station with a favorable interviewer and attempted to polish his unilateral decision by invoking how the refugees are primarily persecuted Christians and it is our duty to save them from such persecution. I have a question for Lee: If your position is so righteous and proper, why didn’t you try to sell it to the people as a great and noble idea before trying to dictating it to our state? Lee naturally glosses over the costs of bringing in people who don’t speak English, may bring and spread heretofore unknown and/or untreatable diseases, have few or no marketable skills, have few or no sponsors, and lack any real ability or desire to rapidly assimilate into American culture… He spoke about how, by accepting “our fair share” of refugees willingly, we will have a say as to how and where they will be resettled; which is abject garbage, and he knows it.
Later on the local radio news, the news reporter actually reported the refugees will be given social security numbers and BE ALLOWED TO VOTE! I don’t know if that is true but it was reported as news – not opinion – several times during the day.
All this talk about resettling refugees to America brings up these thoughts:
Refugees seeking asylum, by law and custom, must first seek it from their neighboring country.
Who (I’ll give you one guess) is paying for them to be resettled half a world away in America? They surely are not paying for the flights. This is insane!
I am not against the legitimate refugees seeking asylum, nor am I unsympathetic to their plight. However, America gives billions of dollars to numerous countries every year specifically to avoid this situation. If we are to be the repository of the world’s refugees, then we should stop giving foreign aid.
America has less than five percent of the world’s population; we cannot support the continuing influx of “refugees” and illegal aliens – most of who do not readily assimilate into our culture – and maintain our standard of living.
If all the bleeding hearts (I’m being kind as to their actual motives) want all these people to come to America – and essentially be compensated via our social “safety net” for doing so, while bringing nothing of benefit to our country – then let’s place them in their communities. Let’s invoke eminent domain on ten percent of the million plus dollar homes of the elites in their GATED communities; let the ones who can most afford it bear some of the burden of the refugees. Governor Lee could set the example; after all, he is a “rich” and successful businessman and a “Compassionate Christian”.
Here is my solution to this self-inflicted problem if we must accept the world’s victims:
Build resettlement communities on remote federal land to process the refugees. Just after the Pearl Harbor Attack, over 100,000 American citizens of Japanese descent were arrested and forced into internment camps with no due process, by the progressive icon Franklin Roosevelt.
(The camps were similar to Army barracks and were palaces compared to any other nation’s jails, but these citizens lost virtually everything – homes and businesses, and ties to their communities, with no compensation – except what they could carry.)
In this controlled setting, the refugees could be properly vetted for diseases, and criminal, and terroristic intentions. They would be taught and required to learn English, and a marketable job skillset. Once they have proved to be accepting of and loyal to America, they then could be relocated to an area that willingly accepts them. Once relocated, they would be monitored as in a probationary status for a number of years and if they succeed in becoming productive, then and only then, they would become eligible for citizenship and voting rights. If they fail in any aspect of assimilation, they get deported to their home country.
This is the only sensible and fair way to process refugees and keep American citizens safe and free from potential diseases, monetary costs, and violence, while providing a valid opportunity for a better life to the legitimate victims of oppression and persecution.
If any human “rights” group complains about this asylum process, then we cancel the entire program and accept no one.
Gerrymander!!!
The former mayoress of Nashville wanted to make her city a “ sanctuary city “, and remove “ offending “ historical statues.
But, one of the local TV stations caught her having extra-marital relations with her bodyguard in the old city cemetery.
She resigned in disgrace, thankfully.
Lee has been a huge disappointment. He’s the Mitt Romney of Tennessee.
These days can you think of a worse name to be called?
They’re trying to replace us.
Mayors in TN are telling Lee ‘not in our towns!’ Our mayor is one of them. We saw what happened to Shelbyville when they were invaded by Somalis several years ago and want no part of it.
These resettlement groups drag “refugees” in, get their money from the gov’t., then pay no attention to where they go after that. They admitted that when asked why they were sending so many Somalis to Shelbyville.
We already have a bunch of illegals from Central America here and don’t need any more “refugees” dumped on us.
“While Impeachment Rages On, Other News Flies Under the Radar”
Impeachment RAGES ON?? That’s got to be the biggest yawner in modern history!
No one else in Africa wants the Somali there. Can you guess why?
Gee, I haven’t a clue. ;-)
They swarmed Shelbyville to work at the Tyson plant and their presence caused all kinds of problems. Schools had to hire translators because the kids couldn’t speak English, and there wasn’t money in the budget for that.
They were set up in apartment complexes and people who’d lived in those complexes for a long time moved out in droves. The Somalis were rude and sometimes threatening.
There was a big stink when they demanded Tyson remove Labor Day as a holiday and make Eid a holiday instead. They were going to do it but that got shot down.
There are still Somalis there but many have left. Who got stuck with them, I dunno. I just know that friends who live there have told us they’re happy to have fewer of them around now.
“America has less than five percent of the world’s population; we cannot support the continuing influx of “refugees” and illegal aliens”
That is true, because the supply is ENDLESS, not ‘essentially endless, but totally endless.
Why, because what do you think happens when 10,000 people leave a shthole country? Why more babies are made there, and those 10,000 are replaced with as many (or probably more)...who will then become ‘refugees’.
The flow can NEVER end...which is why it really doesn’t do anyone, any favors, to keep bringing them here.
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