Posted on 11/26/2015 5:21:27 PM PST by GOPAreDemProgressives
President Obama used his weekly address to appeal to families counting their blessings on Thanksgiving, reminding Americans that the holiday isn’t only about turkey but a tribute to the deep immigration history that led to the nation’s founding.
In 1620, a small band of pilgrims came to this continent, refugees who had fled persecution and violence in their native land, Obama says. Nearly 400 years later, we remember their part in the American story and we honor the men and women who helped them in their time of need.
The Obama administration said Wednesday that states can't legally block the resettlement of refugees, according to a letter from the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement sent to state officials.
In the letter, the agency said states are bound by the Refugee Act of 1980 to provide "assistance and services to refugees without regard to race, religion, nationality, sex or political opinion, and cannot cut off ORR-funded services to Syrian refugees.
Additionally, the letter says refugees are protected by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the bases of race and national origin" in all programs that receive federal financial assistance.
More than 30 state governors have indicated they will attempt to block any future refugees from settling in their states.
Obama said he has been “touched by the generosity of the Americans†who have written letters and emails in recent weeks offering to open their homes to refugees fleeing the Islamic State, ISIL.
Nearly four centuries after the Mayflower set sail, the world is still full of pilgrims – men and women who want nothing more than the chance for a safer, better future for themselves and their families,†the president says.
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Watch us, you motherless FFFF.
Did the original Pilgrims wear suicide vests? I must have missed that part of History/s
Rush should send him a children’s book.
I’m glad that Zero is doubling down in his dip-lunatic remarks.
Home Alone Two:
“Have you had enough pain yet?”
“Never!”
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Even Sweden is closing its doors:
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Putin UNLEASHES hell!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3365378/posts
“Rush should send him a children’s book.”
And a tape about the real history of the pilgrims.
I hope Rush Limbaugh makes a satirical Obama style ‘history’ of Syrian muslim pilgrims.
“Day one: we found a homosexual infidel native amarican yesterday and had great fun stoning him to death. We gang raped some squaws because they wore no burkas. The indians were shocked at our female circumcisions and called us ‘primitive’. We declare jihad on them because the unbelievers refuse to pay us tribute. But when we lost the battle, we pled al tikkaya and pretended to worship nature...”
Another hateful insult to the Christians who helped establish the greatest civilization on the planet. King Hussein grows more psychotic by the day. Perhaps he will one tell us about the cannibals in his family tree.. Tell us Hussien about the accomplishments of your African ancestors. Can we list them here? They come from a land of no written language, no math, no science, no development of organized society, no cannibals— haha. Look at what they have left in their wake when they became city leaders. Look at Detroit, Baltimore, “......
These mofos’ want to bring a sectarian war to our streets.
They see an opportunity to damage us here at home by using the guise of refugees to import the sectarian violence seen over there.
That is why there is so much opposition from Christian Syrians/Lebanese/and others who fled from this crap decades ago.
Government creates problem...government fixes said problem.
Think of what they believe they can get away with.
Looks like Jade Helm training may indeed be useful. They may have to put down mooslime vs mooslimes fighting in our streets like they are in Libya and Syria.
Need more governmental control? Import a religious civil war into a nation that has a lot of Christians from the region to add to the fire and ire of the mooslimes and WHOOLA!!!!
MORE GOVERNMENT. As I was removing the foil hat from me wee little ‘ead....a piece of the foil got stuck in me lobe thereby giving me ....yes.....A TIN EAR...
:-) .....aw...c’mon....
CHICAGO
Archbishop Cupich: We Know the Refugees. They Are Us
Critics worry some Syrian refugees may be ISIS agents. We must do our best to separate facts from fear, writes Chicago Archdiocese leader.
http://patch.com/illinois/tinleypark/archbishop-cupich-we-know-refugees-they-are-us
Legally, can Obama force the States to allow these people with his pen and phone?
Exactly. The “saints” group of the Pilgrims came here to flee religious prosecution. The Syrian refugees are coming here to be participate in religious persecution of Christians.
Is there no line Hussein won’t cross to offend Americans and Christians?
They are just like the Pilgrims eh? So in other words these new age pilgrims are going to infect us with disease, steal our land, impregnate our women and kill our buffalo (cattle). Will they eventually allow us to open gambling casinos?
“Is there no line Hussein won’t cross to offend Americans and Christians?”
No. And Hillary will be more of the same. Election 2016 is the most important EVER!!!
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