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Martin O’Malley Says U.S. Should Accept 65,000 Syrian Refugees (He's Out Of His Mind)
PJ Tatler ^ | September 4, 2015 | Rick Moran

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.

CNN

“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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: aliens; refugees
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1 posted on 09/04/2015 4:21:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Syrian lives matter. Oops, he’d better not say that.


2 posted on 09/04/2015 4:22:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Kaslin

Maybe he’s hoping if they come here they will all vote Democrat


3 posted on 09/04/2015 4:23:27 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Kaslin

All the Rats care about is more voters. Get them hooked on government aid and they’ll vote Rat for life.


4 posted on 09/04/2015 4:25:09 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Kaslin

Just how large IS 0’Mally’s house?


5 posted on 09/04/2015 4:25:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Kaslin

How many is he willing to adopt or sponsor?


6 posted on 09/04/2015 4:26:18 PM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Syria should take Martin and 64,999 of his closest friends.


7 posted on 09/04/2015 4:27:20 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: Kaslin
Why not 650,000 Marty?

It's not like you plan on living hear any of them or anything.

8 posted on 09/04/2015 4:27:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: Kaslin

Wonder who put it in his head that he has a shot at the White House.


9 posted on 09/04/2015 4:28:14 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Kaslin

Only if they get o’Malley,hillary and obama in an exchange.


10 posted on 09/04/2015 4:29:09 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: Kaslin

Is there a minimum quota of Muslim terrorists that should be included in that amount or will any number do?


11 posted on 09/04/2015 4:29:14 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Kaslin

Send them to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and to Chappaqua. Obama and Hillary allowed/caused this to happen; let them pay the consequences.


12 posted on 09/04/2015 4:29:28 PM PDT by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: Kaslin
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.

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.

13 posted on 09/04/2015 4:29:35 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bush [the 90s rock band] for POTUS 2016!!!)
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To: Kaslin

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.


14 posted on 09/04/2015 4:29:46 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin

Martin O’Malley calls himself a Pope Francis Catholic.


15 posted on 09/04/2015 4:30:12 PM PDT by yongin (I'd rather be on god's side than the right side of man's history)
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16 posted on 09/04/2015 4:30:15 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Why stop at 65,000? Why not he entire population?


17 posted on 09/04/2015 4:31:34 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Rush reported today that Obama wants 300,000.


18 posted on 09/04/2015 4:32:23 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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19 posted on 09/04/2015 4:32:57 PM PDT by wtd
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To: Kaslin
“I support the call from humanitarian and refugee organizations for the United States to accept at least 65,000 Syrian refugees next year,”

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.)

20 posted on 09/04/2015 4:34:42 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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