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Old 10-02-2015, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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I was wondering if Mississippi should accept some of the refugees who have been leaving the Middle East in recent months. We have at least two things in our favor - plenty of rural land and plenty of water.
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Old 10-02-2015, 03:02 PM
 
Location: NE Mississippi
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I was wondering if Mississippi should accept some of the refugees who have been leaving the Middle East in recent months. We have at least two things in our favor - plenty of rural land and plenty of water.
As long as they have been properly cleared and have some skills to offer.
But there are problems. There are large numbers single men who are "refugees" with false Syrian passports and who do not, for some reason, understand Arabic.
https://www.rt.com/news/316570-eu-fa...rian-refugees/

Do you trust the government enough to believe they have done a good job clearing these people?
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Old 10-02-2015, 04:39 PM
 
Location: The South
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No.
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Old 10-02-2015, 05:06 PM
 
Location: PNW, CPSouth, JacksonHole, Southampton
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Absolutely not. And it isn't just about religion. IQ is extremely heritable. And behavioral traits are heritable, too.

Honestly, the Potato Famine should have taught us a permanent lesson about letting people into the country, just because we feel sorry for them.

There is no shortage of room over there. And there's no shortage of money. There is no reason, at all, for us to import ANOTHER population from a nation with an average IQ below 100 (in this case, it's around 85).
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Old 10-02-2015, 08:25 PM
 
Location: Murphy, North Carolina
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Hell. No.
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Old 10-03-2015, 09:35 AM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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Honestly, the Potato Famine should have taught us a permanent lesson about letting people into the country, just because we feel sorry for them.
I hope you're just using satire, like Jonathan Swift.

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Old 10-03-2015, 09:22 PM
 
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Old 10-04-2015, 11:06 PM
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Location: Dallas, TX
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I was wondering if Mississippi should accept some of the refugees who have been leaving the Middle East in recent months. We have at least two things in our favor - plenty of rural land and plenty of water.
Screen them thoroughly for terrorist connections, then I'm for any state getting allotted its fair share according to either population, gross state product, or growth rate. In addition to the usual social services immigrants need - set up psychological support services too (PTSD, and so forth frequently resulting to exposure to war zones). Give them instruction in cultural and civics education, too (yeah, book knowledge of that stuff is only marginally sufficient at best, but it's better than nothing at all).
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Old 10-05-2015, 01:05 PM
 
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No.
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Old 10-06-2015, 10:51 AM
 
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An emphatic NO! We have enough foreigners who haven't followed the correct protocol to get here.
We don't have money to take care of our veterans, our seniors and we want to take on more....?
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