Senators urge the US to commit to taking on more Syrian refugees
According to Reuters, John Kerry has promised to make more room in this country for more Syrian refugees. The US has taken in 1500 refugees since the Syrian civil war began and 300 more are expected by next month. So, just like last year’s Ice Bucket Challenge, the Senate is falling for the peer pressure to try and be more charitable than the Europeans.
After attending the meeting with Kerry, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy pushed for lawmakers to pass an amendment to restore $416 million in refugee aid that had been cut from the fiscal year 2016 Senate foreign aid bill.
Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, made an emotional Senate speech calling for the United States to do more.
“Our government is doing what it has sadly done too often in the past. We are ceding our strength and averting our eyes,” he said.
So, let me get this straight; the government makes bad policy in regards to Syria, the civil war goes on years more than it has to, it spawned ISIS, we went back to Iraq, and now we’re going to take more refugees that resulted from bad policy. So, the government makes bad decisions and the taxpayers pick up the check.
Kerry announced that the US will take in 5000 more Syrian refugees boosting our total number of refugees that we take in next year to 75,000, according to Associated Press. Apparently, that doesn’t include the number of migrants from the Mexican border that are also arriving next year.
I’ll bet that Assad had a price that we could have paid for him to leave Syria that would have saved us a lot more money than we are spending because he stayed. Now Russia has a lot to do with what is happening in Syria, but I don’t see them lining up to take in refugees. In fact, according to the
Christian Science Monitor, the Russians have increased their presence on Assad’s side in Syria. Last night, Reuters reported that the Russians deployed a number of naval infantry to fight alongside the Syrian government troops.
And, oh, yeah, according to Reuters, the Gulf States have deployed about 10,000 troops to Yemen. They won’t take any refugees, but they’ll send troops. I’m pretty sure that will result in even more refugees.
Yeah, we need to get out of that line. How many of those countries offered us support when our borders were over-flowing with immigrants? I really don’t care what the rest of the world thinks of us. I’m pretty sure that if those were immigrants fleeing Greece because of the financial conditions there, the Europeans wouldn’t care quite so much as they pretend to care now.
Of course, if those Senators above were to sacrifice an large portion of their pay and retirement packages to the refugee cause, that would help.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
How many legit Veterans in need could be helped with this money they want to hand out to third world types ASAP? Fuckin’ A, we’re not the United States of Welfare despite the pols that are doing their damnedest to make it so.
Meanwhile Saudi Arabia has taken exactly ZERO Refugees/welfare seekers.
We need the names and addresses of these politicians, so that when the shyt hits the fan the way obozo wants it to, we know where to get the traitors!!
Fuck em’ muslim refugees from the mid-east are nothing more than the ones that were in the losing side of a gang fight.
No. Just. No.
And yet sequestration continues for the DoD. What a complete bunch of dipshits.
And how many of these refugees will be settled in the Hamptons, NoVa, Cambridge, Scottsdale, and the like?
Is there anything that is happening now that is reassuring about the fate of the West? Frankly, it seems to me that our elites are solely concerned about their media image (have to be “nice” and “compassionate”) and do not give the smallest damn about protecting the interests of the citizens of their nations. The nations of Europe are going to have a jihadi problem (or I suppose I should say more of a jihadi problem) and the Islamic populations that are now flooding those countries will cause cultural upheaval, but their elites seem to think that anyone who voices even the slightest concern about all of this is the most vile racist.
I don’t know where our own elites believe that they will be able to flee to once the chaos that they are now sewing is loosed on the world. Ace had a sidebar story about a week ago about how fund managers are buying farms in remote areas of New Zealand complete with landing strips, I suppose that that is a plan-if you can afford it.
For years the cultural Marxists (Frankfurt school assh*les) have been working to undermine western civilization in the academy, with the goal of undermining the market driven, democratic nations of the west so that they could take over and impose their imagined socialist paradise. They don’t seem concerned in the slightest that the likely heirs of all their work will almost certainly be the Islamists, whose goals seemingly run almost exactly opposite to those that they proclaim. It’s almost as though they were driven more by what they hated than what they claimed to favor.
^^^^This^^^^You Sir, have fucking nailed it!
Thanks-it’s the only way I can make sense of the otherwise seemingly incoherent times we are experiencing.
So let’s cripple the SIV program, which would give asylum to hard-working, motivated Iraqis who SERVED OUR COUNTRY over there at great personal risk to themselves and their families – cut that down to a friggin’ trickle, and then turn on the firehose for unvetted MAMs from ISISstan?
So frustrating. One of my linguists from 2009 is STILL trying to get to the states – a Chaldean Christian who LOVES America, and has LoRs from me and numerous Army officers, has relatives here ready to set him up with work, but no, screw that guy – he might be productive and patriotic!
I agree with SSG E. Regardless of how many of the current refugee flood we admit, FIRST comes the Iraqi’s and Afghans who risked their lives to work with us downrange. Then we can look at the rest of the ash and trash.
You guys have your hearts in the right place but, the fact is, who in the administration actually gives a shit? Also, those men helped us; thus, they were on the wrong side. I would not be surprised to find their names on a special list of undesirables or featured in a Dept of Homeland Security (Gawd, I hate that name!) alert or video.
I agree AC, but I hear “Fatherland” was already taken.
I stand with you and SSG E. Many of those locals not only risked their lives patrolling with our military shoulder to shoulder, many of them died shoulder to shoulder as well. Those that did not get killed live in peril, abandoned by us, and our State Department has royally fucked many (most?) of them over.
I do not hear oBaMa’s name associated with this Syrian refugee debacle very often. It’s his baby. Four years ago, he determined that Assad had to go. He announced his Arab Spring and encouraged uprisings. They occurred. He had terrorists armed, indirectly, not caring who toppled Addad, so long as he was dead. Remember oBaMa’s silly “red line?” Assad has jumped across it, kicked sand on it and … “Make no mistake. “President Obama believes there must be accountability for those who would use the world’s most heinous weapon against the world’s most vulnerable people. Nothing today is more serious, and nothing is receiving more serious scrutiny.” Yawn. That was Kerry. Egypt. Libya. Syria. Arab Spring. Red Line. And now the genius wants to ensure that Iran (!) has the means to produce The Bomb. Cripes. America is stupid beyond belief first in electing that wrecking ball and, second, in re-electing him. And some people want his veep as the next president. Crazy stuff. Suicidal.
Yes!
But it does make me wonder how differently things might have turned out if Kerry had been allowed his “almost unbelievably small air strike”.
//sarc off
Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.
— Jim Treacher
https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/501493192953319424
As someone who wanted to go into journalism as a teenager hearing about what it was supposed to be, I’d say it all boils down to “what side do you cheerlead for”, and it always comes down to what team the President’s on. Modern journalism isn’t journalism; it’s cheerleading. And it disgusts me.
I beg to differ, 2/17AirCav.
America itself is not stupid, nor are the majority of Americans naive and gullible.
Why else do you think bodaprez’s rating has been dropping since his first term in office?
In a little under 1.5 years, that moron will start getting the blame for all the stupid pet tricks he’s been trying to pull off, and no matter how loud the far left media tries to swing it, it will still be HIS fault that these things have happened.
It will be even worse if Iran actually does build a nuke and tries to use it.
“It will be even worse
ifwhen Iran actually does build a nuke and tries to use it”. FIfy.I know, Ex. You know, like we do, that it’s a matter of time until they set one off. Just pointing out the obvious.
But when they do build it, “oh well you know if both President Bush’s hadn’t sneered at Iran, they wouldn’t have the bomb. So its both their faults!”
Just like the fact that Hillary is still campaigning even AFTER “apologizing” for the whole email thing as if she stepped on someone’s foot. Rather than being in an arraignment waiting to get a bail determination.
The complete line I penned was not that America is stupid but that “America is stupid beyond belief first in electing that wrecking ball and, second, in re-electing him.” How can you possibly disagree with that? Either America is stupid for doing that twice or then it is indeed naive and gullible, having been duped not once but twice by Baracka and Co.
Anyone else notice how the news photos seem to only show military aged males as refugees? When i think refugee the 1st thing that comes to mind is families, women, children, and old people.
This has to be some sort of sinister joke…We’re actually going to import ISIS into our country?
Those assholes have already said they have people in and amongst the refugees. Is anyone vetting these clowns?
Why in the fuck are they not fighting for their country?
I certainly hope I’m wrong, but I really have a hard time trusting people that come out of a country claimed by that false caliphate….especially single males between the ages of 16 and 40.
Stats are 72% adult males invading Europe, many not Syrian at all.
There’s plenty of room in the Secretary’s Georgetown house, his Beacon Hill house, and his Rhode Island docked yacht. I suggest that he start there.
Sure, bring them all in. That way we can fight them here so we won’t have to fight them over there. ISIS is putting their sandals on our ground so we don’t have to put our boots on their ground. It makes perfect sense in some perverted way. They are just what we need, more taxi drivers that can’t read a map!
I have a plan. Offer their families sanctuary if they agree to enlist in a military unit trained and equipped by the US and sent back to Syria to liberate their country. It can be led/supported by SF bubbas. Otherwise, they can stay out.
“So, you are refugees?”
“Yes.”
“How many in your family?”
“Four–uh, three. We lost one. A boy. Suicide bomber.”
“Oh. I am very sorry to hear that.”
“Sorry? How do you think we got the money to get here? He WAS the bomber.”
(7:30 and 10. Until Thursday. Veal.)
Meanwhile, Christians are being beheaded, crucified, set on fire, drowned and 6yr old girls are being gang raped and this President and Administration refuses entry to any of them.
Any question we have the first Muslim President in history?
Well Mr. Heinz has hundreds of millions in his account so he can fund this all himself.