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How many did you except into your home? Or were you happy to let your neighbors pick up the tab?
"prudent" lol
I don't know if you know this or not, but it is not legal for a US family to sponsor refugees. Yes, I've looked into it and no, it is not possible. I have, however, donated to organizations that assist Syrian refugees instead.
This country is a diverse country and will always be a diverse country, so get used to it.
The United States is a nation founded and built by immigrants and African Slaves. And that characteristic of our country will never change, and we'll never stop accepting immigrants that need a safe place to live out their dreams.
The United States had a huge hand in creating these immigrants by destabilizing the Middle East and helping to create ISIS.
What do you mean it will never change? US immigration policies have changed before they can be changed again.
I don't know if you know this or not, but it is not legal for a US family to sponsor refugees. Yes, I've looked into it and no, it is not possible. I have, however, donated to organizations that assist Syrian refugees instead.
Is this a polite way of saying you have no problem making your neighbor for refugee scheme?
Not just no but hell no. I'm pretty disgusted too with the leftist rhetoric that wanting a clampdown on immigration until we can create a more efficient and thorough vetting process is racist or xenophobic. My neighbors to the north and south of me don't tolerate illegal immigration - why should the U.S. be held to a different standard? Why shouldn't WE be the ones to determine what system we will employ?
Is this a polite way of saying you have no problem making your neighbor for refugee scheme?
These are just the facts: there is no legal way for my family to sponsor a refugee family and have them stay in our home. I would be open to it. It is not possible, so we give money and time to organizations that are able to sponsor refugees. Luckily, despite how it may appear from reading on city data, there are far more Americans willing to help refugees from Syria than there are Syrian refugees in the US at this point, so many of the organizations end up turning away willing volunteers.
There have been some efforts to change the law in the US to allow private sponsorship of refugees. Those efforts have all failed to date, and the opposition has fallen along partisan lines, with Republicans generally opposing private sponsorship. Canada, on the other hand, has a private sponsorship program that seems to have worked out well to date. It actually usually makes for a smoother transition for refugees when they are paired with a local family and have someone to help them navigate the new culture.
Not just no but hell no. I'm pretty disgusted too with the leftist rhetoric that wanting a clampdown on immigration until we can create a more efficient and thorough vetting process is racist or xenophobic. My neighbors to the north and south of me don't tolerate illegal immigration - why should the U.S. be held to a different standard?
Refugee resettlement programs are not equivalent to illegal immigration. And I assume by southern and northern neighbors you mean Canada and Mexico. Canada takes in far more Syrian refugees than the US does (25,000 in the past year alone) and the resettlement program there has been largely successful. Mexico has also pledged to take in the same number of Syrian refugees as the US.
I think bringing more of the death cult into the USA is a good thing....The world is overpopulated and this is a good way to control overpopulation .....Too many people is causing global warming and having a death cult is a good way to control it and with these guys machine gunning people it will save the planet and also the whales...and elephants and the red spotted cockroach is endangered too and there won't be as many plastic bags on the roads.....with less people, the world will be a better place.....and we can register them democrat......vote Hillary 2016.....lol
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