America has always been filled with panty-pissers

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COWARDS PISSING THEIR PANTIES OVER REFUGEES IS NOTHING NEW​




U.S. refugee policy dates to the end of World War II.

During the 1930s and 1940s, the nation turned away thousands of Jews fleeing the Third Reich, even though our immigration quotas remained unfilled.

Politicians justified their actions by arguing that German spies and subversives might be hiding among the refugees, but anti-Semitism was the more likely motivation for American neglect.



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LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE?​



After the war, President Truman urged Congress to authorize the admission of displaced and stateless people from Europe.

Even as Americans became more fully aware of the horrors of the Nazi death camps, Congress resisted.

It took three years to pass the 1948 Displaced Persons Act, which brought in more than 200,000 Europeans (mostly Germans) over the next two years.

The law discriminated against Jewish and Catholic refugees, and Truman was tempted to veto it because it was “wholly inconsistent with the American sense of justice.”

Still, the law officially launched U.S. refugee policy.

Together with the 1953 Refugee Relief Act, it facilitated the entry of almost 600,000 European refugees.


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THEY...THEY MIGHT BE...REDS!​


In 1956, President Eisenhower had to convince a wary American public that it was in the national interest to accept Hungarian refugees.

A Hungarian rebellion against Soviet domination had elicited a brutal crackdown that forced more than 200,000 refugees into Austria and Yugoslavia and destabilized two countries still reeling from World War II.

Opponents argued that communist spies and saboteurs would arrive with the refugee flow and harm the nation.

Eisenhower said the United States had a moral responsibility to the Hungarian rebels and to the European host nations — especially since the U.S. had encouraged the rebellion.

For the next year, Americans saw story after story on Hungarian freedom fighters, comparing them to American patriots and stressing their love of liberty and democracy.

Eventually, 38,000 Hungarians were admitted.


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The 200,000 Cubans who were paroled into the United States from 1959 to 1962 after Castro’s rise to power were predominantly white, middle-class and professionally trained, but that did little to pacify Americans.

Letters to politicians and civic leaders revealed growing anger and frustration.

Over the next five decades, many more refugees from Communism, violence and war came from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Colombia.

White Americans protested incessantly, from the freedom flights from 1965 to 1973 to the 1980 Mariel boatlift and the attempts in 1994 by more than 30,000 Cubans to flee oppression by boat.

Today, Miami is home to one of the most successful Latino business communities in the world, but the demographic shift scared away many non-Hispanic whites, who resented the cultural transformation of “their” city.



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THEY WERE OUR ALLIES AGAINST COMMUNISM, AND PANTY-PISSING AMERICANS TURNED THEIR BACK ON THEM​



Polls in the 1970s found opposition to the continued entry of South Vietnamese refugees fleeing the devastating war in Vietnam and its aftermath.

News stories about the high casualty rates of Vietnamese boat people stranded at sea and about squalid refugee camps did nothing to change public opinion.

In 1979, only 32 percent of Americans surveyed wanted to accommodate refugees, and the government struggled to find people willing to sponsor them.

Americans complained that the refugees were politically suspect migrants who came to mooch off the welfare system. Resentment fueled conflict in many communities across the country.


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9/11 completely changed our refugee policy. In the wake of the terrorist attacks, the George W. Bush administration restructured the immigration bureaucracy.

Refugees now face many bureaucratic hurdles: They must be investigated by national and international intelligence agencies; their fingerprints and other biometric data are checked against terrorist and criminal databases.

They are screened for disease.

They are interviewed and reinterviewed by officials.

In sum, they must prove that they are worthy of refuge in the United States.


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Refugee applicants can expect to wait on average 18 to 24 months for processing and screening, but humanitarian aid workers on the ground report a much longer wait.

Just like other immigrants, refugee applicants are not guaranteed admission.

There is no “waiting list” per se, and the selection process can be capricious.

Even Iraqi and Afghan translators, already cleared to work with U.S. military personnel, have difficulty securing refugee status or special immigrant visas.

If many in this doubly vetted population can’t get visas, those without connections will encounter still greater obstacles.


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This past week’s political rhetoric warns that the Syrian refugee population, dominated by young men traveling alone, poses a risk.

Adult males traveling solo are the least likely to be admitted to the United States unless they can demonstrate persecution.

U.S. resettlement policies favor women and children, the elderly and the infirm, victims of torture, and religious minorities.

The real burden is borne by countries that border areas of crisis.

The Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, near the Syrian border, for instance, is home to 80,000 people.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees refers only 1 percent of refugees for resettlement in third countries such as the United States.

The refugees our nation admits each year are but a drop in the proverbial bucket.


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In 2012, amid Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown, only 31 Syrian refugees were admitted to the United States.

This year, despite the ongoing civil war and the rise of the Islamic State, just 1,682 refugees came from Syria.

Is it possible that a terrorist will arrive undetected in the small pool of admitted refugees?

No system is 100 percent secure. Even tourism can pose a potential threat: The Tsarnaev brothers, responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing, arrived in the United States on tourist visas in 2002 and became legal residents when their parents were granted asylum.

What immigration official can predict that children will be radicalized on American soil?

Denying vulnerable populations — and populations we made vulnerable — the chance to make a case for refuge goes against everything our country claims to stand for.



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I'm not against helping refugees and if they truly need help then it's our duty to do unto others, but given the recent attacks and the fact that Isis has said they are infiltrating the Syrian refugees there should be some extra scrutiny and researching to make sure whoever we bring here is truly in need of asylum.
 
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