About that tired and poor thing
by digby
They’re all a bunch of terrorists as far as the right wing is concerned:
Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz says the Obama administration’s plan to accept about 10,000 Syrian refugees is “nothing short of crazy.”
The Texas senator told a Michigan crowd on Monday he thinks a “significant number” of refugees entering Europe are terrorists from the Islamic State group. He says it would be the “height of foolishness” to allow “Syrian Muslims” into the country.
Germany’s top security official said last week that intelligence services are watching for signs that terrorists are mixing into the flow of incoming migrants but had confirmed no such cases.
Republicans determined to stop further Syrian refugees from resettling in the United States are looking for solutions at the legislative level to halt the administration’s plan.
Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, Chairman of the Senate’s Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, released a statement on Monday that proposes to resettle the refugees in Middle Eastern countries. According to Sessions, the administration plans to resettle 200,000 new refugees in the next two years.
“The U.S. has already taken in four times more immigrants than any other nation on Earth. Our foreign-born population share is set to break every known historical record. Since 9/11, we have permanently resettled approximately 1.5 million migrants from Muslim nations inside the U.S.,” Sessions said.
He explained, “Ninety percent of recent refugees from the Middle East living in our country are receiving food stamps and approximately 70 percent are receiving free healthcare and cash welfare.”
The proposal is actually for only 10,000 Syrian refugees, but who’s counting?
And there’s Trump of course. I’m going to predict that this will end up being a “closing Guantanamo” situation. They’ll win.
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