The Door is Closing
At the base of the Statue of Liberty the following words are engraved in bronze
Written by Emma Lazarus
This map would suggest that the door is quickly closing in more than a handful of states. I can logic through why our states are choosing to close the door to accepting refugees, but I wish to remind that those toes we step on today, are likely connected to the asses we will be kissing tomorrow. That lock on the door between "us" and "them" works both ways. If we, as Americans, lock the door, who will open their door for us in the event that we need to seek refuge from our government?
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Written by Emma Lazarus
This map would suggest that the door is quickly closing in more than a handful of states. I can logic through why our states are choosing to close the door to accepting refugees, but I wish to remind that those toes we step on today, are likely connected to the asses we will be kissing tomorrow. That lock on the door between "us" and "them" works both ways. If we, as Americans, lock the door, who will open their door for us in the event that we need to seek refuge from our government?
Comments (14)
What the states can do is perform poorly once the refugees get there. This will come easy for most of the rejecting states because they either have perfected, or are working at perfecting, poor performance in general. Bad schools, gun-controlled politeness, low achievement rates, hook worms, pestilential swamps, governors named Walker, and various other failures.
They might not even notice they left Syria, except for the accents and there being more guns than usual.
Meow!
GREG
America is at war with the middle east in more than one way. Part of this battle is religous. Jewish people will side with Christians faster than they will a Muslim. Of course they are not going to support letting in refugees from a Muslim ruled country. This battle is like cats and dogs.
What makes you think this?
What evidence do you have to back it up?
Although I'm sympathetic to positions critical of those governors in favour of "closing the door" on Syrian refugees, I find your [i]quid pro quo[/I] reasoning peculiar, out of place, naive, and distasteful. Shouldn't implausible scenarios be lower down in your considerations? I don't consider it to be reasonable to expect anything remotely like what has happened in Syria to take place across the pond. And turning it around to make it about the interests of you and your fellow Americans just seems wrong. In comparison to what they face in Syria, you and your fellow Americans are privileged, prosperous, free and secure. That's the reality. That's how it has been for a long time, and that's how it will continue to be, because America is not Syria - not even close.
These governors should favour "opening the door" simply because it's the right thing to do, for humanitarian reasons.
Oh, and you're welcome for my contribution. Fingers crossed it gets chosen to go on the Facebook page. :pray:
This is a particularly idiotic post, suggesting that American immigration policy is controlled by some Jewish alliance, and but for the Jews, the US would cease being xenophobic. Jews are overwhelmingly liberal, much less populous in southern states, and not rural, meaning there is no reason to think Jews have anything to do with limiting Syrian immigration.
Quoting SherlockH
I think it is called a wildly absurd idea with no merit or back up.