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Originally Posted by Robbie
Rochard, my point is...number one: nobody helps our homeless like they do the refugees.
If an agency rounded up the homeless people, gave them a paid for nice apartment with furniture and filled the refrigerator with groceries...THEN let's talk about refugees from another country who have almost zero chance of ever successfully assimilating into our society...and who have been raised to treat women like dogs and HATE and KILL gay people.
Is that really what we want?
I would think that for immigration we would want the best and brightest. Not hateful people who will treat women like non-humans and gays like slaughterhouse animals.
As for where terrorists come from...ISIS has already publicly stated that they would infiltrate the refugees. It's a no-brainer that they are going to do that.
Why on Earth should we gamble on that?
All of this "celebrating" is totally political with no regard to reality.
This is pure b.s. from people who just can't accept how WRONG they were about the election.
But this time, it has National Security ramifications.
Does a federal judge have the right to stop Drumpf's order?
Hell yes. Just like they stopped several of Pres. Obama's orders as well.
But for people here to celebrate and cheer on countries like Iran and Syria over our own well-being is just...dumb.
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We don't help our homeless? Really?
We are giving the homeless free food, free clothes, and a free place to live. I live in a town of fifty thousand people and we have a charity here in town that has handed out three million meals in the past year. The town next to us has a complex of "tiny homes" for the homeless. Another town next to us has the Lazarous project, where they have three large homes for homeless people. Larger local cities are using something called
MicroPADs. Other cities rent out entire apartments for the homeless.
You said refugees have "almost zero chance of ever successfully assimilating into our society". My grandmother was a refugee from Poland and didn't speak any English. My step-father came from Europe and spoke only French. And somewhere along the line, Robbie, you have family members that came to the US and chances are they didn't speak English either. You have to understand that if it was up to you... You wouldn't be an American citizen today.
Do I want someone from Syria coming into my country? Or Pakistan? I honestly don't care. Someone from Syria isn't going to come to the US and commit a terrorist act. I am more likely to be killed by a toaster in a bath tub than I am by a terrorist act on American soil.
I feel very strongly about what happened on 9/11, but this "ban" isn't going to prevent the next 9/11. The people who hijacked the planes were mostly from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, which isn't covered by the ban. This is nothing more than a new president trying to make it look like he is doing something to protect us. He signed a fucking piece of paper and then went on vacation to Florida. That's it.