Since you’ve asked, my answer to your suggestions is yes. The US, and other stable prosperous countries, should decide how many immigrants they want to accept based on humanitarian reasons. The people most in need of humanitarian assistance are going to be refugees who’ve fled their country and moved into refugee camps. It’s pretty certain that someone who has moved into a refugee camp isn’t an economic migrant.
I’m pretty sure we’re in agreement here. (I was being snarky in the previous post.) I think it’s appalling that the current administration has slammed the door on refugees worldwide when they are and have been a vital lifeblood for our culture and our economy. Even if they (gasp!) look and sound different.
My point of comparison remains Uganda. Poor as they are, they’ve been able to absorb a double-digit percentage of their population in refugees, and they’re treating them as well as their own citizens. If Uganda can do that, why can’t we? Is America not as great as Uganda?
Not yet, but MAGA isn’t complete. Few more years, we’ll be there!
That’s something that might get bipartisan support. Give refugees a Uganda lifestyle.
…Which is still better than what we’re giving them now. And you do mean giving that to forty million refugees, right?
Are you advocating building a Bidibidi style refugee camp near Cleveland?
Practically speaking, Cleveland probably isn’t the best place for it. Someplace with more hospitable weather, and closer to the border they’re crossing, would be easier.
But if you’re asking whether I would object to having large numbers of refugees living near me, no, I would not. Heck, when I was a kid, my family hosted (as in, within our own house) a refugee family. And I still maintain that, despite being born on the other side of the world and speaking English as a second family, they’re more American than I am: They earned it, whereas I just had a lucky choice of parents.
“It means peace for our time.” With a tip of the bowler hat to Neville Chamberlain.
What are you talking about? Our esteemed president has never done anything like that in his life.
Mexico has learned the North Korean Lesson: Give Trump some small meaningless concession, and he’ll act as if he’s won the Superbowl, and all his rhetoric about tariffs or sanctions will disappear like a popped soap bubble.
There’s been no time at all for Mexico to actually be doing anything differently from what was being done a week ago, but here Trump is, lavishing praise on them.
Still think it was a bad idea?
Meanwhile he’s claiming that he’s going to start deporting millions of illegal aliens starting next week.
Trump is a little wobbly right now, and it’s showing. He’s growing more and more desperate at the signs of slipping poll numbers for his re-election, and also by poll numbers indicating growing support for impeachment. You can tell because this is his go-to move: kicking brown people. He goes after weak and vulnerable opponents. He corners vulnerable women and sexually assaults them. He abuses vulnerable migrants. But he can’t handle it when he’s confronted with a Nancy Pelosi. He can’t handle it when faceless civil servants relentlessly and fearlessly pursue justice. He expects people to back down. When they don’t, he doesn’t know what to do. So he goes to his time-honored tradition of beating up on the vulnerable.