The entire issue of immigration hinges on one’s reaction to the following news item:
You either believe that violence and beheadings in Haiti and Syria are a disembodied force that occurs in those geographic areas without any human involvement, or you believe that people who are violent in those places will be violent in any other places. The authors of the AP article clearly think the former. The SCOTUS decision recognizes the latter.
People very much are different. This is why it is a big deal that SA has Dutch rather than Germans.
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Completely in agreement. These are such different cultures with different results.
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I think the people rationalizing it are trying to pretend it is just like… the Khmer Rouge or something. Persecuted people running from… the problem is of course that they refuse to define who are the aggressors, so everybody’s eligible to be a refugee, even the ones beheading returnees and leaving them in dumpsters. Who’s vetting to make sure those guys don’t move to Springfield?
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–but just for funsies, if it *was* just like the Khmer Rouge, I know people who made that trip. They escaped from their work camp, with young children, smuggled everyone across the border into Vietnam, got shipped to a refugee camp in Indonesia where they lived for a couple years, finally got sponsored by a US church group who agreed to take responsibility for them and pay their airfare, they went through a tremendous amount of vetting and interviews, and finally arrived in the US, where the sponsor-church-group set them up in an apartment, provided English lessons, helped them find jobs and navigate the paperwork to eventually become naturalized citizens.
If that’s what we were doing with the Haitians, it’d probably be OK. It’s kind of hard to hide the fact that you’re a murderous thug, when you have to live in close quarters in a refugee camp for years before getting a visa.
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Also, since it’s not any particular regime or tyrannical dictatorship that is causing the dysfunction in Haiti, this whole process cannot, can never end. It will be extended indefinitely without any expectation that the situation would improve. This means that we are on the hook for admitting, settling, feeding, and adjudicating Haitians from now on into infinity.
Since we cannot possibly distinguish between the beheaders, the potential victims of the beheaders, and the additional beheaders whom the potential victims will immediately import into our country as part of the family reunification process, this immigration policy simply makes no sense.
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