Yesterday I told you about the childish Daily Kos post promoting the idea that we should admit 2 million Syrians to the US (all those who want to come here!). And, I told you to vote in the poll at the end.
Here are the polling questions (screen shot this morning) and the tally! Note that the number of voters is much larger than those reported for each question. They only had 5 voters who said this was a “smart policy” while 93% said it was “too dangerous.” I suspect the percentage in the “too dangerous” category would have been even higher, but apparently the poll was halted at some point.
So don’t be cowed by the likes of the Leftwing kids at Daily Kos!
Category: The Opposition
Daily Kos: Let's "scoop up" 2 million Syrians, bring them to America and teach them stuff
Let’s start out Monday morning with a chuckle. This is “Liberal Thinking” at the far Left Daily Kos.
“Liberal” doesn’t think we are too bright, but he/she demonstrates a woeful lack of understanding about how the federal Refugee Admissions Program works, how our federal government is structured, what are the factions in the Syrian civil war; and “Liberal” has forgotten that it is their guy—Barack Hussein Obama—who is commander in chief.
The war “Liberal” says Republicans don’t know how to win is OBAMA’S WAR.
A must read so you have some understanding of what the kids at Kos are thinking.
From “Liberal Thinking” at the Daily Kos (Emphasis is theirs):
Republican leaders are some of the least humanitarian and cruelest people in the country. But I’ve come to believe they are also some of the thickest. You can see this in the strategic implications of keeping Syrian refugees out of the country.
The refugees are people who’ve been abused by the Syrian government (Asad famously gassed them) and driven away by ISIS and other rebel groups. They are already predisposed to hate those people. Our best strategy would be to scoop up every one we can persuade to come to the U.S. and give them a place to sit out the war. The war will end and eventually they will go back. We have an enormous opportunity to affect Syrian society after they return.
So, it isn’t just humanitarian to accept the refugees. It’s also smart national security policy.
There are perhaps two million refugees we could bring to the United States. This is possibly 20% of the Syrian population. What will these people believe when they return to Syria?
We could spend a moderate amount of effort teaching them how to run a secular society. We should help them learn how we view human rights and due process. We should help them set up public institutions they can take back with them. [And, the kids at Kos are going to teach Sunni Muslims this?—ed]
There are more suggestions of things we could teach them, including how to cope with global warming. Then “Liberal” wraps up with this:
But unfortunately much of our federal government is run by Republicans, who don’t know very much about how to run a government. As I’ve said before, Republicans don’t know money. (They want to privatize Social Security, for example. And they are still promoting trickle-down economics, even after it’s been show to be an abject failure.) But it’s deeper and more disturbing than that. They don’t even know how to win a war.
Vote in the poll!
Now, I want you to go visit the story and vote in the poll at the end! For a blog getting (so they say) hundreds of thousands of hits a day, only 23 have voted so far (as of this writing). Should we bring in all the Syrians who want to come? Surprise! The choice “no, they are too dangerous” is winning by a wide margin.
Action Alert: Call your members of the House and Senate at 202-224-3121 and ask them to vigorously oppose the Refugee Resettlement funding contained in the Omnibus Spending Bill that will be voted on by 12-11-15! Don’t stop calling (we will keep you posted as we learn more about when the vote might occur).
With Friends like these! Quakers are pushing for more Muslim migration to America too!
Lobbying on the Omnibus!
Here they are popping up in Congress this week promoting an amendment to give more taxpayer money for Sryian refugee resettlement to your towns and cities.
Not to be left out of our list of ‘religious’ charities promoting open borders and more Syrian Muslim refugees is the American Friends Service Committee and the Friends Committee on National Legislation. As far as we know they don’t have their greedy fingers in the federal treasury like the nine federal contractors do, but they can be counted on to push for anything the No borders Left wants on immigration.
It’s kind of hard these days to find a church or a synogogue at which to worship that hasn’t been taken over by the Left!
Here AFSC lists this week’s possible vote on the Omnibus Appropriations bill as an action item for good Quakers across America.
And here the Washington Post tells us about the Friends Committee on National Legislation’s role on the Omnibus funding bill as well.
A letter to House Appropriations Committee leaders from Reps. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.), David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) to INCREASE funding for refugee resettlement is being circulated with the help of Jasmine Taeb a lobbyist for FCNL.
The letter asks committee leaders to “substantially increase funds” to help the departments of State, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security process refugee applications and screenings.
“The world is watching how the United States responds to the situation in Syria,” the letter reads. “It is critical that our humanitarian and foreign policy priorities align with how we allocate our budgetary resources.”
A total of 112 members of Congress have signed that letter since the Paris attacks, according to Yasmine Taeb of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker group that has been helping circulate the letters.
More here about the various proposals, but I was most interested in the Quakers involvement.
A few years ago (2011) I wrote at some length about the Quakers’ role in the original ‘Sanctuary movement,’ their role in creating CASA de Maryland and how they worked against the state of Israel, here. At that time I learned about how Quakers had played an important part in that disastrous Gaza flotilla incident. And, I bet you thought they were just a bunch of peaceniks!
I was further stunned at the time, that some of us who had organized a Maryland conference including speakers on Islam, were treated to protests outside by a few Muslim activists along with Quaker activists trying to call us Islamophobic and racist.
We Con the World!
In that post at Potomac Tea Party Report I linked this spoof of the classic ‘We are the World’ song. The parody is from Latma TV (and from time to time I watch it to boost my spirits!). The Friends (Quakers!) were one anti-Israel group behind the Gaza Flotilla!
And, so now I have an excuse to post it again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHYcLGiVoG4
Since the pro-Muslim migration Quakers are working so hard in Congress this week, don’t you forget to counter them!
Action Alert: Call your members of the House and Senate at 202-224-3121 and ask them to vigorously oppose the Refugee Resettlement funding contained in the Omnibus Spending Bill that will be voted on by 12-11-15! Don’t stop calling (we will keep you posted as we learn more about when the vote might occur).
Canada now says it will "welcome" 50,000 Syrians by the end of 2016
They have been all over the place with their numbers especially since they realized they couldn’t get 25,000 relocated to Canadian towns by the end of December (less than 4 weeks from now).
So to make it look like Trudeau’s campaign promise isn’t a bust already they are now throwing around the number 50,000 over the next twelve months. (To get to that number they need to be bringing in around 1,000 a week! Good luck with that security screening!)
And, we better be beefing-up our northern border! (Maybe Donald should start adding that border to his campaign speeches!)
See our previous posts on Trudeau’s dumb (and dangerous) idea by clicking here.
Among our top posts for the last couple of weeks is this one about Canadian military men being thrown out of barracks to make room for Syrians.
Now here is the mention of 50,000! (the first 300 arrived a few days ago). From The Desert Sun:
As Canada prepares to welcome the first of 25,000 Syrian refugees, the government suggests that number could double over the next year.
“The number of refugees is likely to be in the order of 35,000 to 50,000” by the end of next year, Immigration Minister John McCallum said.
The first “mass flight” of up to 300 refugees from Turkey and Jordan is expected to arrive by chartered aircraft*** on Thursday.
The new Liberal government made a commitment to resettle 25,000 refugees, along with those privately sponsored by churches and families, by the end of February.
Those coming to Canada are undergoing security, immigration and health checks.
The article goes on to tell us that most of the Syrians will come from UN camps, thus they will be nearly 100% Sunni Muslims just as are those entering the US now.
***There have been rumors of chartered flights bringing large numbers of refugees to the US. Surely someone has a photo if this has occurred!
For new readers, we have 165 previous posts in our Canada category, here.
Texas sues Obama Administration and a resettlement contractor
Update December 5th: Texas already backed down, here.
On Monday we reported that Texas was planning to sue the federal government and the International Rescue Committee, now they have done it.
Everyone wants to know if states have any rights under the federal Refugee Act of 1980, but since, as far as we know, no governors have even tried to test their rights, we can’t answer that.
We need more lawsuits like this one from other governors exploring different legal angles.
The consultation process required by the original Act is an important angle.
From The Hill:
Texas on Wednesday sued the Obama administration and an organization that resettles refugees over plans to bring six Syrian refugees to the state later this week.
In a filing, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission accused the two of violating federal law with its plans to bring the family to Dallas on Friday.
The state asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to block the resettlement and to order the defendants to “comply with their statutory and contractual duties to the state.”
Instead of working with the state to resettle refugees, as the law declares, the federal government and the International Rescue Committee “have left Texas uninformed about refugees that could well pose a security risk to Texans and without any say in the process of resettling these refugees,” the state said in its lawsuit. Texas on Wednesday sued the Obama administration and an organization that resettles refugees over plans to bring six Syrian refugees to the state later this week.
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In its lawsuit, Texas points to the 1980 Refugee Act, which claims that the federal government must “consult regularly” with state and local governments about refugee resettlement plans before the refugees are placed within a state.
For more on Texas, visit our growing archive here. See our David Miliband file by clicking here.