Posted on 07/05/2014 10:53:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Each time I think about the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children streaming across the U.S. southern border, often without adult companions, three thoughts skitter across my mind: What would Sir Nicholas Winton think? What is the purpose of America? And what is the meaning of life?
Sir Nicholas Winton celebrated his 105th birthday in London recently, surrounded by about 100 guests. Most were offspring of the 669 children he saved from the Nazis in 1938 and 1939.
Last week, many people in Bethpage and throughout Long Island erupted in outrage the federal government might consider an old Grumman facility to house some of the children. The option surfaced as part of a preliminary national list of empty buildings
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About 6,000 descendants of those 669 people, living all over the world today, owe Winton their lives. He chose to do this, others did not. People lived because of his actions, but 10,000 times as many died because nations wouldn't accept Jews and individuals wouldn't help.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection expects to nab 90,000 kids at the border this year, up from 25,000 last year. They are coming because their home countries, mostly Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, are hellish pits of gang warfare and other violence. It is so bad, the children are sent by loving parents to walk hundreds or thousands of miles to the United States, hoping they'll be allowed to stay, to live with relatives or friends.
Let them in, and if their numbers double and increase tenfold, continue to let them in. They'll make us a stronger, more vital nation, as immigrants have. They'll love and protect this nation with a ferocity many Americans can't match, and be part of a brilliant future.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Nazi reference, the author loses.
How many can she hold in her palatial mansion?
“the children are sent by loving parents to walk hundreds or thousands of miles “
No response needed. They dig their own holes.
Let’s let the kids stay. And to balance them, we can deport and cancel the applications of an equal number of legit immigrants trying to come in the right way. And 100% of the muslim applicants.
We?
To whom are they referring?
And from what Nazi regime are these kids running, without their parents.
Honestly, Newsday is liberal, ok, but do people have to act so utterly devoid of a logical thought?
Move to Latin America and take them with you
Problems solved
Maybe this delusional sh**head can let them move into his house. He can pay for it all too.
“They’ll make us a stronger, more vital nation, as immigrants have. They’ll love and protect this nation with a ferocity many Americans can’t match, and be part of a brilliant future.”
The good people of Bethpage and beyond, who gave to the Grumman corp, who massively contributed to the space program and to our national defense think differently.
They are not part of the class of adults who think like silly, neglected hopeful fifteen year old girls, looking for any excuse to sell their no future user boyfriend.
“Nazi reference”
Yep, for any Nubians or Lurkers,
Godwin’s Law is an internet adage that is derived from one of the earliest bits of Usenet wisdoms, which goes “if you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you’ve automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.”
Another billabong poisoned by a stupid lefty. Just walk away, Renee.
EVER!
How will that work out for ya,Lane? Still on board?
Wait I have an answer. Stephen King is a liberal and he came up with the perfect solution in “The Long Walk”. Winner get citizenship.
How about the NY Times building hosting a thousand or so? And all the mansions of the Hollywood celebrities, Al Gore, Harry Reid, Zuckerberg? Let’s see them take in a bunch and take care of them.
What a crock.
read the comments- they are outstanding...
ONE INTERESTING COMMENT:
Here’s the reality... If illegal immigrants were being given amnesty, and were more likely to vote Tea Party Republican, you’d see this president build six fences 4 ft. apart and 25 ft. tall with razor wire and fill a moat filled with hungry crocodiles from San Diego to Corpus Christi. Who’s kiddin’ who Senor Presidente?
You can have an open-door immigration policy, or you can have a welfare state. If people can not or will not work, the wolves will eat them. You can't have an open-door immigration policy and a welfare state. The rest of the world will move here and go on welfare. Lane's idea is well beyond stupid.
'Facts be damned, I sure sound good saying this'.
New York City would certainly pay it's fair share then (and probably change its "perspective").
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