War, famine, and other turmoil have driven 25 million people from their homelands… and the richest nation in the world contends it can’t take in even one out of a thousand of those poor souls:
The Trump administration intends to set the refugee admissions goal for next fiscal year at 18,000– the lowest level in U.S. history, and released a new executive order that permits state and local officials to block resettlement in their communities. Last year, the administration set an historically low refugee admissions goal at 30,000 – in the face of the worst refugee crisis in global history. For nearly four decades, the annual goal has averaged 95,000 refugees. Today, there are more than 25 million refugees worldwide — more than half of whom are children. Refugees are more than just a global figure; they are families torn apart, children who have witnessed profound violence and people seeking a chance to rebuild their lives and raise a family in safety.
As people who care about refugees, we must make our voices heard and tell both the White House and Congress that the new record-low refugee admissions goal is morally bankrupt. We must return refugee admissions to historic norms and set a refugee admissions goal of 95,000. One way Members of Congress can show their support is by co-sponsoring the GRACE Act (H.R.2146, S.1088), which would set the minimum annual refugee admissions goal at 95,000 and ensure greater accountability [Church World Service, press release, 2019.09.26].
Did you catch that Executive Order? We’ve been able to fight anti-refugee bills from local racists like Al Novstrup and Neal Tapio by pointing out that states have no Constitutional authority to intrude on the federal business of immigration. But now the racist in the White House has ordered the proper federal autorities to resettle refugees only in communities where the state and local governments have authorized refugee resettlement. In other words, one racist Governor or one racist mayor can declare their jurisdictions off limits to people from foreign lands in need of America’s protection.
But what good South Dakota Christian would ever do a mean thing like that?
As long as there are hungry, cold homeless Americans we DO NOT NEED OR WANT REFUGEES
We plan at illegals 15.00 an hour and we get 9.10 how is this fair. They get free health care we don’t. How is this fair.
Janet, my understanding is that we pay the wages the market will bear. Do you have evidence that all undocumented workers get higher wages than minimum wage?
Donna apparently believes America is too weak to help its own people and others. Sad to see such a lack of faith in America’s capacity to do great things.
Admitting refugees will help feed people, since refugees will boost our economy, create jobs, pay taxes….
Moar Drumpf lies about refugees…… https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/2/20894552/state-department-el-salvador-travel-alert-safe
Drumpf says El Salvador as safe as Denmark is one of the biggest lies he has ever told.
We have poor and hungry and Drumpf is kicking 4.5 million off foodstamps and half a million kids off free school lunches. Why? Because he is such a bleeding heart liberal, not!
I suspect Donna knows better than that, Cory. More likely she is trying to assuage the natural guilt she, as a human being, experiences when supporting hateful, discriminatory attitudes toward people in need. She is using the fallacy of relative privation.
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Helping people in need is not a zero sum game in the USA. We have the resources to help refugees in addition whatever other groups we help, especially hungry, homeless people who were lucky enough through no fault of their own to have been born in the US. Most likely, Donna knows she is a much better person than someoine who would normally advocate turning her back on someone in need (as evidenced by her acknowledgment that the homeless deserve compassion).
A genuine hater would simply declare that refugees are
‘illegals” that are less than human and deserve to die – you know, sort of like Trump with his recent comments about snakes, alligators, shooting people, flesh piercing spikes. and an electrified wall, all designed to kill or maim refugees.
The disciples told the kids to get lost and quit bothering Jesus. Jesus said the disciples, or anyone else for that matter, who treated children badly should be drowned. Jesus didn’t say anything about where the children were from, their skin color, clothing, customs or income. I guess none of that was relevant.
The disciples jumped on Jesus for talking to the wrong person because she was a woman and a Samaritan, not one of them. Jesus didn’t care for their comments, nor stop ministering to her.
I think there’s a reason those stories are in the Gospels of Jesus Christ. Of course, if Donna and Janet are not Christians, there is no reason these 2 stories matter to them.
Both Donna Bagget and Janet Luther I take it you do not understand what refugee resettlement or has never met one. In which case, I would give you a tour of the office. If you have not helped at the Banquet, this is the time ladies.
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What’s the origin of the phrase ‘Charity begins at home’? The notion that a man’s family should be his foremost concern is expressed in 1 Timothy 5:8, King James Bible, 1611: But if any provide not for his owne, & specially for those of his owne house, hee hath denied the faith, and is worse then an infidel.
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Donna’s ability to Google somehow fails to address the Christian point: the Samaritan didn’t ask for ID. Jesus didn’t ask for a passport before he started helping people. How do Christians surrounded by wealth justify not helping those in need from other lands?
Donald Trump isn’t following any Christian imperative: at the same time he’s shutting out refugees, he keeps trying to cut food assistance to American citizens.
Charity begins at home….. rich homes. For theyn alone have the necessary amounts of free speech dinero to buy alleged kristian congressweasels to ensure charity comes to those most deserving…. the wealthiest of the wealthy.
That is wingnut kristian gospel in what used to be America.
Another issue raised by Donna’s “charity begins at home” is the meaning of “home.” Does that mean no one living outside your physical walls deserves charity? Or does it mean no one living outside your town, county, state, nation, continent, world, solar system, or universe deserves charity? One’s “home” can legitimately be defined as any of these physical locations.
Donna’s suggestion that hunger and homeless “Americans” deserve help (which they definitely do) implies that she seeks to define “home” as the USA, although none of her biblical quotations seem to support that arbitrary determination. The link referencing home as the “voice of the world” seems to offer more support for helping refugees if one needs biblical justification to help a fellow human being, or that person’s child, who is in need but resides outside one’s “home,” in whatever way it may be defined.
Likewise, while the links Donna references make clear the mandate that charity should be provided to “his owne, & specially for those of his owne house,” the links certainly do not imply either a mandate, nor even offer an excuse, for denying that help to people beyond one’s “owne house.”
Indeed, the repeated use of the modifier “begins” in the various quotes makes it crystal clear that charity ought to be provided to individuals both inside and outside one’s “owne house.”
Wow..you guys are really something else…LOL You hate facts because you are so needy..Needing a pat on the back much? Some of us actually see thru the BS…
Donna, I referred to the words of Jesus Christ Himself, not a colloquial saying. Christ is the cornerstone of “Christ”ianity. The beginning, the end, the center. It’s easy to find text in the bible to say anything. I prefer to look to the words of Jesus for the first and last word. All else is secondary to him. Wouldn’t you agree?
If I remember my history correctly, the highly questionable bible was allegedly written long before there was an America to reside in. So it can’t pertain to charity in America. Now wingnuts have carte blanche to lavish treasure on the wealthy.
Donna, don’t forget the Good Samaritan too.
A lawyer was trying to weasel out of having to care for or about others, so he tried to get Jesus to narrow down the “neighbor” field. Jesus responded with the Good Samaritan story.
We are to care for our neighbor, and that is anyone who is in need. Anyone, even if the religious leadership turns their back on that needy person and walks away. From Jesus’ mouth to the faithful Christian’s ears. There is no wiggle room.
Melania and her kid are refugees, shall we give them the boot Donna Baggett? Ivana as well along with her brood. What do we really know about you Donna Baggett? Is Baggett your married name or is it on the list of bad hombres? The wheel that squeaks the loudest is usually the one with the most issue.