been <\/em>resettled<\/a> in recent years – and it’s the Obama Administration that has been picking and choosing the refugees it wants to take; out of 3.6 million refugees from Afghanistan, South Sudan and the Central African Republican in the last couple years, the Obama Administration has accepted less than a thousand.<\/p>\nBut let’s not focus on the administration for now. \u00a0Let’s focus on organic criticism.<\/p>\n
Racism is in the minority,\u00a0\u00a0among a lot of people who say \u201clook at what\u2019s happened in Europe\u201d and \u201chave we learned nothing from the Somali influx\u201d, where the government essentially dumped thousands of Somalis here without any support, with thousands of passive Jihad sympathizers and where dozens, maybe more, have gone off to join ISIS and\/or Al Shabab,?<\/p>\n
At any rate – advocate for immigration if you want. I\u2019m with you. My beef isn’t with immigration, or taking in refugees, or even Islam at large. \u00a0It’s with the avalanche of emotional, illogical, logrolling arguments we’re being subjected to by immigration proponents.<\/p>\n
So – if you\u2019re passing any of the arguments below, especially with the air of suffocating self-righteousness that seems to be so in fashion with these sorts of arguments these day, we may have to talk.<\/p>\n
“We HAVE to take in refugees! There are women and children among them!”<\/strong> Sure – but a disproportionate number are men, especially men who\u00a0are of military age.<\/p>\n\u201cHave you seen the state the children are in?\u201d<\/strong> So give them a leg up on getting in to countries. Why is this an all-or-nothing proposition?<\/p>\n“But they’re fleeing WAR”!<\/strong> Many if not most of the “refugees” in Europe right now are economic, not war, refugees, from places like Somalia and Sudan that may be pretty miserable, but aren\u2019t war zones.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s just like the WW2 Internment camps!\u201d<\/strong> No – the camps interned American citizens. The refugees are not citizens, and there is no human right to enter this country. None.<\/p>\n“None of them have attacked anyone yet!”<\/strong> Well, that\u2019s just awesome. On 12\/6\/1941, no Japanese plane had ever attacked American territory. On 9\/10\/01, it’d been 56 years since any American had been killed by a deliberately-crashed plane. As they say in investing, past performance is no guarantee of future results.<\/p>\nIn fact, let’s say, hypothetically, that not a single would-be terrorist infiltrates the US via this wave of immigration. It could happen!<\/p>\n
But then let’s say the refugees are resettled in the same manner than the State Department is handing Somali refugees; paying social service non-profits to put them in communities, supporting them for a year, and then washing their hands of them. \u00a0This leaves communities of unacculturated immigrants with little skill in English (or, what the hell, Spanish), menial job skills, and little contact in the larger community. \u00a0What happens to them?<\/p>\n
If they’re lucky, they get a decent job with neighborly Americans who introduce them to American life. \u00a0Or they land in a community that has some Somalis that’ve established \u00a0themselves, and are among the 85-90% of Somali that are\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>Jihad sympathizers, and who’ll help them complete the transition as relatively cleanly as possible.<\/p>\nIf they’re not? \u00a0They’re alone, stranded in a strange country, poor and dependent, speaking the language poorly if at all, and ripe for the picking by the thin film of opportunistic, Jihad-sympathetic imams that are working that population even as we speak. \u00a0Which brings us to the next point:<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of the Paris terrorists were French Nationals!\u201d<\/strong> – Oh, goody – so the fact that people who have been in the west for a while, long enough to gain or be born with citizenship, are blowing up their countrymen is the good news?<\/p>\nIf the Administration plans to use the Somali influx as its model – dumping masses of poor immigrants into our communities, unsupported – how\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>we avoid these new communities turning into the the like of the Arab suburbs of Paris, Lyon, Brussels and Stockholm, which were in fact the breeding grounds for the last few waves of Paris attackers?<\/p>\n“It’s just exactly like when the Jews tried to flee Nazi Germany”<\/strong>: Not even close. The Jews of the 1930s had *nowhere* to go, and no state of their own to take them in. They were excluded from the US due to pure anti-semitism. The VAST majority of this wave of refugees\u00a0are already someplace safe; Greece, Germany, Jordan, Egypt, wherever. Nobody’s going to ship them to a concentration camp, or kill them (unless ISIS takes over Greece, Germany,Jordan, Egypt or wherever. \u00a0The Arab world is chock full of countries with immense wealth and space – but no impetus to take in refugees. We can not forever be the world\u2019s safety valve.<\/p>\n“They’re just looking for a safe place\u201d<\/strong> Some, maybe most, are. But they\u2019re also making beelines for Germany and Sweden and France, as opposed to safe places like Poland or Slovakia or even, for crying out loud, Lithuania, which is rolling out the welcome mat but doesn\u2019t pay welfare benefits to refugees. Why do you suppose that is?<\/p>\n“Look at this photomeme of the Indians and Pilgrims! Ironic!”<\/strong> Well, yeah. I guess you could say it’s ironic that your dimbulb photomeme supports *my* point better than yours, ja?<\/p>\n“Mary and Joseph were refugees looking for a place to stay!”<\/strong> No, they were paying their taxes at the behest of the government. The Judean IRS was apparently even worse than ours. \u00a0But let’s say they were<\/em> refugees; that was a pretty gutsy innkeeper, what with that Judean movement that was beheading Nazarenes in the streets.<\/p>\n“It’s just fear!”<\/strong> – That\u2019s not an argument. That\u2019s bullying. By the same “logic”, owning a fire extinguisher and looking both ways before you cross the street is “fear”. No, “fear” is a chanting point, intended to emotionally bully people into doing what they’re told.<\/p>\n“It’s racist to oppose the resettlement\u201d<\/strong> Look – see above. \u00a0Historically and in recent years, we’ve taken in more of the refugees that have\u00a0<\/em>been taken in than the rest of the world, twice over. \u00a0And that’s on top of the illegals. \u00a0America’s Muslim population is on track to exceed its Jewish population – the largest outside Israel – very shortly here. If there’s “racism” out there, it’s taking its sweet time manifesting itself. Beating people over the head with accusations of \u201cbigotry\u201d isn\u2019t an argument; it\u2019s browbeating and bullying.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s logrolling – the same cheap emotional bludgeoning that supporters of same sex marriage used to browbeat anyone who said \u201cer, maybe we want to think a little before we fundamentally alter society\u2019s fundamental building block\u201d into compliance. Whether you agree with gay marriage or not (I barely agree with straight marriage), it was depressing, seeing society decide a crucial issue the exact same way the Mean Girls did back in junior high.<\/p>\n
And I’ll tolerate none of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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