Posted on 11/18/2015 2:46:57 AM PST by markomalley
“Slamming the door in their faces would be a betrayal of our values.”
So said President Obama about the growing chorus of Americans and state governors who are rejecting his proposal of resettling thousands of Syrian refugees in the country. It was only one of the many asinine things the president said during his Monday morning speech at the G20 summit, but it was a statement that resonated with a broad spectrum of our country’s chattering class.
Among America’s movers and shakers, support for taking in refugees is near-universal, even though the rest of the country seems horrified by the idea. But the liberal elite has taken the ingenuous approach in appeals to good ol’ American values.
The New York Times editorial board issued a blistering denunciation of refugee critics on Tuesday. The Times said that it was “morally unacceptable” to call for a halt to allowing in Syrian migrants and an insult to the values the United States promotes around the world.
The notorious Muslim civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), condemned the statements of governors refusing Syrian refugees as “un-American.”
Fox News host Shepard Smith gave an impassioned, 90-second lecture on the migrant matter live on TV Monday. The Fox personality said that America would be more like the “barbarians” if the country refused entry to these migrants. “If we change it to accommodate the savages, have they won? And what then would be left to protect? We profess to stand as an example for all the world. Our unique experiment in freedom, tolerance, openness, and equality, is our gift to societies and peoples everywhere,” Smith pleaded.
Even the popular Twitter parody account @TheTweetOfGod got in on the message.
At least the fake God shows more humor than The Washington Post, which in all seriousness asked, “Would Jesus take in Syrian Refugees?”
The bleeding heart consensus is that if the country turned away these migrants, it would undermine the very values our country is founded upon.
But is America really just built upon the famous poem verse of Emma Lazarus asking for the world’s “huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore”?
Not quite.
The United States is a country that is built upon values handed down to us from the original settlers of the continent, the majority of whom hailed from the British Isles.
The late Harvard academic Samuel Huntington wrote in his phenomenal work “Who Are We?” that those early settlers gave this nation its “Anglo-Protestant” character, culture and values. These values included a hard work ethic, rugged individualism and democratic rights. While America has always had immigration, it’s not necessarily a “nation of immigrants,” according to Huntington. Rather, it’s a nation of settlers.
Immigrants who arrived after America’s founding had to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant culture of the settlers — often meaning they had to learn to speak English, accept America’s political system and adopt a self-reliant work ethic.
Nowhere in this theory does it stress that America is founded upon being the destination for all the needy people in the world. Our country has of course welcomed in many people fleeing persecution throughout its history. But we always did it after considering the interests of our citizens first, and with the implied requirement that these immigrants would assimilate into our culture.
When it comes to refugee resettlement, these conditions are in no way satisfied. For one, an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose letting Syrian migrants into the country, as further evidenced by the 31 governors and counting who’ve rejected the president’s proposal. The security threat is the overwhelming reason for the opposition — and there’s good reason for the worry.
Besides the migrant involvement in the Paris attacks and the warnings of our own intelligence officials who say we can’t verify refugees who come to America, there are the examples of refugee communities in the U.S. The Little Mogadishu neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is one of America’s main havens for Somali refugees. It has also become a breeding ground for radical Islam.
At least 40 former residents have joined ISIS and several others have been caught trying to join the terror group.
In addition to the Islamic extremism, Little Mogadishu also has a serious problem with crime and street gangs.
If one of America’s core values is personal responsibility and hard work, many refugees are sadly not living up to that virtue. A staggering 91 percent of migrants settled in the country are on government assistance, with 68 percent of them on welfare.
That’s a massive burden that’s put on the towns chosen for resettlement. Interestingly enough, the towns picked for these assignments have virtually no say in the process — the federal government just picks them without local approval.
If one of the core values of America is democracy, then our current refugee system goes against that principle. Our country was not founded to give bureaucrats the final say on matters that the people have to cope with.
Not surprisingly, the individuals who are most supportive of taking refugees are people who don’t have to deal with the consequences. They’re not settling the Syrians in Manhattan or Capitol Hill. They’re going to put them in towns and communities far away from the centers of power — places where elites won’t have to hear about the crime and the burden the new arrivals place on struggling areas.
The reason why “values” figure so prominently in the arguments of refugee supporters, is because they offer the hope of a new, multicultural America. An America that discards its historic Anglo-Protestant character in favor of a more universal one. An America that no longer requires English and where an undefined sense of equality is the highest virtue.
That’s why these elites are so willing to disregard the pleas of the citizenry in favor of the plight of the refugees.
But the most important thing to remember in this debate is what a national government’s first obligation is: to serve its citizens. The U.S. is no different. Our country’s primary obligation is not to serve as the world’s homeless shelter, nor is it to place the interests of non-citizens over those of taxpayers.
It’s to serve and protect the Americans who call this country home.
To do anything else would be truly un-American.
We don’t a jug eared Kenyan Communist to define our American values. As far as Jesus accepting this Arab rifraf, even he established a criteria for salvation. The rifraf is not seeking salvation and as far as breathing free, all they want is to breathe and live for free on our dime. Build camps for them in Syria or where ever they come from but kee the scum from our soil. Send the Kenyan back too.
It would be very un-American to have a president whose playing for the other team to lie to us and bring an invading army onto our shores posing as refugees too.
How many Christian refugees would Mohammed take?
How many has Saudia Arabia taken?
CALL CONGRESS NOW: 202-224-3121
MESSAGE: We need to hear you loudly opposing bringing Syrian (and other) refugees into our communities.
Americans are through being suckers for foreigners who have no interest in contributing to our nation.
Besides killing us, their intent is to suckoff the backs of struggling taxpayers and gorge themselves at the welfare trough.
If anyone sees refugees being sneaked in, contact the FBI, the governor’s office and local police.
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I alerted the FBI that somehow Obama snuck into this country and asked if they could sneak him back out
They can drive or walk to many other Mideast nations... but somehow they have airfare to here?
The last time I encountered this sort of attitude it was late summer and bugs hurling themselves against the zapper.
I am unable to fathom what drives leftists to flirt with death and disaster. What grand delusion lures them into believing that they can swim with sharks and alligators and not get bit? And why are they so open and forgiving of monsters who wouldn’t think twice about beheading them or blowing them into shredded bits, but hold violent antipathy for us because we point out the truth to them?
Somehow we have money and facilities for illegals, jihadists and “immigrants”, but I can find no housing for my 94-year-old mother.
So I have to move her from Florida to Delaware in winter.
But least, the Mohammedans will have all the comforts they never had in their sh!t hole they came from.
BTW, my mother doesn’t qualify for Medicaid because her SS is “too high”, yet it’s below the poverty level.
The Statue of Liberty was never intended to have anything to do with immigration. Her original name is “Liberty Enlightening the World” (not “Inviting the World”) and the tablet she holds reads “July 4, 1776.” She represents the Roman goddess libertas, the embodiment of liberty. It was hijacked by immigration activists later.
The left uses the “Give me your tired...” frequently to attempt to justify permanently opening the borders and allowing anyone and everyone to come, as though those of us who don’t want that to happen are traitors to the ideals that caused this country in the first place. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Instead of coming to a place where they willingly will embrace the American dream in a variety of ways, not the least of which is learning to speak English and being proud of the day when they can officially call themselves Americans, a vast majority of those who have come here illegally and certainly a vast majority of those who are being foisted off on us under the guise of refugees, will probably never learn to speak much English, at least on purpose. They will never try to become citizens. They will never have more than a low wage job if they have that, which means they will be on the dole and they will be provided tax-payer funds as assistance. As a result of all this, they will never be happy with where they are so they will seek to change our laws, our social customs, and our religion, in order to be more comfortable. They will not become Americans and they will be a continuing and growing danger to our society.
God bless those true, tired and huddled masses, who came (come) here, willing to work hard and who actually wanted to become Americans. They helped make us strong and great. They are ‘us’.
These masses of illegals and so-called refugees will not make us great. They will not become us. They want to make us, them. They will continue to drag us down and endanger us. They shouldn’t be allowed into this country and if they need protection and a refuge, there is lots of land in more than one oil-rich Middle Eastern, Muslim, Arab-speaking country. Let them go there.
When the St Louis showed up loaded with Jews, Saint FDR turned them away. Now, it’s morally indefensible to turn away muslims. Got it.
Easy we the taxpayers are footing the bill. 16,000 bucks per person.
80% of moose limbs vot Rat. They want all they can get. Especially if the Klown can seed them in the right voting precincts.
“In a time of WAR, our values are that we do not take in
thousands of our enemies’ refugees. Did we take in
thousands of Germans and Japanese during World War II.
Make no mistake about it. We are at WAR with radical islam.
To take in these people is insane.”
Common Sense.
We seem to have forgotten how our forefathers treated the Irish and more recently the Jews attempting to escape Nazi Germany on a particular ship that was filled with Jews and rejected where ever it attempted to find haven. Butt hay, we rewrite history every day.
That’s easy they are only listening to the H...
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