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Experts predict a million refugees might flee the Gaza Strip amid the war between Israel and Hamas, and socialists and far-left lawmakers said America should welcome them.
“Fifty percent of the population in Gaza are children. The international community as well as the United States should be prepared to welcome refugees from Palestine while being very careful to vet and not allow members of Hamas,” said Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a New York member of the Socialist-Democratic “Squad” who remains under investigation for pulling a fire alarm in the House Cannon Office Building earlier this month.
But Republicans have already slammed the door shut on the issue.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said they would oppose Palestinian resettlement efforts here.
“The U.S. is the most generous nation in the world, but we are in no position to accept additional refugees, especially from a region with as high a risk of terrorism, given our nation’s inability to secure our own border or vet those who are already here,” Rubio told The Post.
Cotton said “Iran should take responsibility for any Palestinian refugees caused by its proxy . . . war with Israel. Iran is responsible for the death and destruction — it should be responsible for refugees as well.”
The White House repeatedly refused to say whether it would be open to accepting refugees from the conflict.
originally posted by: wdkirk
No.
Bad idea.
They support and harbor terrorists.
Progressives call for USA To Take Refugees Fro
Not sure what America is banking on.
Palestinians, huh? The ones who are miffed about us giving part of their land to the Jewish people after WW2, and seem to have an axe to grind about it, and are willing to blow up elementary schools and hospitals? Hard no from me.
“If Israel is occupying Palestinian land, can you please explain the basis in international law for Palestinian ownership of this land?” They all likely assume that there was a previous Palestinian state that the Israelis occupied and destroyed, but in reality, there has never been a Palestinian state of any kind, ever, at any point in history. There has been a region known as “Palestine” since 134AD, when the Romans applied that name to the land that had previously been known as Judea, that is, land of the Jews. But “Palestine” was akin to “Staten Island” — it was only the name of a region, never of a people or a nation.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
My response ... HELL NO. They are all steeped in hate of nonmuslims and full of Hamas indoctrination.
originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: FlyersFan
So even bringing over the young children is a hard 'no'?
originally posted by: RazorV66
originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: FlyersFan
So even bringing over the young children is a hard 'no'?
That’s right.
As a taxpayer, I am tired of my money going to illegals and refugees.
originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: FlyersFan
So even bringing over the young children is a hard 'no'?
originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: RazorV66
originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: FlyersFan
So even bringing over the young children is a hard 'no'?
That’s right.
As a taxpayer, I am tired of my money going to illegals and refugees.
So leave the poor orphan children to their grim fates? I suppose donating to the Red Cross to help them is a hard 'no' too?