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.
I’m willing to bet that of all those “refugees”, including the ones going into Europe, that there are numerous ISIS plants/sleepers.
Of Course - they'll all be on the dole and all supporting Democrats.
The Iranian American PAC must have handed out another envelope
Yeah, if one, just one of these jackwagons is willing to take, what, five of these scumb...er refugees into their own home, THEN they can talk about the rest of us receiving them. I shant hold my breath.
ISIS threatens to send 500,000 migrants to Europe as a 'psychological weapon' in chilling echo of Gaddafi's prophecy that the Mediterranean 'will become a sea of chaos'
Italian press today published claims that ISIS has threatened to release the huge wave of migrants to cause chaos in Europe if they are attacked
And letters from jihadists show plans to hide terrorists among refugees
In 2011, Muammar Gaddafi ominously predicted war would come to Libya
He was deposed in a violent coup and killed in October of the same year
Islamic State executed 21 Egyptian Christians on Libyan beach this week
Crisis in Libya has led to surge in number of migrants heading for Europe
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2958517/The-Mediterranean-sea-chaos-Gaddafi-s-chilling-prophecy-interview-ISIS-threatens-send-500-000-migrants-Europe-psychological-weapon-bombed.html#ixzz3kofuaaty
And Americans will just have to learn to "tolerate" and act of terrorism here and there, right? After all, the end justifies the means.
Maybe McNally has lots of money to spend caring for these refugees. I sure don't and neither do most people here.
Don't these politicians ever think about the cost?
I know. Stupid question. All part of the plan to bleed us dry.
Maybe McNally has lots of money to spend caring for these refugees. I sure don't and neither do most people here.
Don't these politicians ever think about the cost?
I know. Stupid question. All part of the plan to bleed us dry.
Which means he isn't Catholic at all.
This mass migration is part of Jihad. We should say no now to avoid killing them later. For there will be more Islamic terrorism on the streets of America.
O’malley is one stupid man.
How about a trade?
This guy reportedly lives in the Homeland neighborhood of northern Baltimore.
That could be a fine place to put his 65,000 (probably will turn out to be mostly IslamoNazi terroristas) ‘Syrians’
GOP.
This would make an excellent sound-bite, should O'Malley ever run on either part of the Dem ticket.
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He is delusional or really hates the U.S. or at least Christians and/or Jews.
I’d bet my last dollar that Ben Carson is also in favor of this. Ben is my candidate of choice.
No he is not out of his mind. He is cold, calculating and malicious. He hates America as these third World types will be strategically placed, given taxpayer funds, and registered to vote. The criminal organization known as the Democratic Party is flooding our country with future Democrats and as a result will control elections permanently. See California for the future.
Martin, you personally take the first 50 and then we can talk.
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