Hawkeye wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:04 pm
This wasn't considered cruel when Obama was busing and flying undocumented immigrants to different cities around the country. It's not like they had a place to stay in Texas either.
And as EAllusion always insisted, illegal immigrants are a net benefit to the economy. So every sanctuary city should be happy to have them. It's a gift. Be thankful for it.
If you're really worried about these people, why make us have to send them to you by bus or plane. Come get them and put them up in your own houses if necessary. Oh yes, I forgot. The left is only generous with other peoples money, not their own. You've been using these people as political pawns for 70 years! And there votes built you some really nice houses in Martha's vineyard. I see no reason you can't put them in your own houses.
This is disingenuous to an extreme. Obama did not lie to refugees about where they were being taken, record phony addresses for them that were thousands of miles away from where they were settled, or just drop them off on the street without any arrangements for work and housing.
I don't hear any arguments from sanctuary cities or other liberals that they should be exempt from having asylum seekers live in their communities. In fact, that's kind of implied by what a sanctuary city means. But you've shown no evidence whatsoever that the federal government has placed a disproportionate number of refugees in red states or red communities. And the only political games that have been played with refugees has been by the right. Settling refugees in locations throughout the U.S. has indeed gone on for 70 years -- but that doesn't make them political pawns. It's the right that has politicized the whole refugee issue.
EAllusion was right in what he said and he's still right today. You can't refute his claim, so you simply distort it. It doesn't matter how productive a refugee is as a worker if he is dropped without warning on the street of a seasonal community in the off season when there are no jobs. It's just common sense. That's not how refugees are settled in a community.
Neither Obama nor anyone else has forced conservatives to put refugees in their houses. I pay the same taxes you do, and so I pay for settlement of refugees just like you do. by the way, not every house on the Vineyard is owned by a liberal and not every liberal owns a house on the Vineyard.
I get it. You don't want to be an American citizen, with the privileges and the obligations that go along with being a citizen. Tough. It's a big world and you have lots of choices. But don't try to claim the moral high ground when you gleefully celebrate asylum seekers being lied to, being given false information intended to get them deported, and being dropped off without advanced notice in a location without the jobs and homes they were promised all in the name of "pwning the libs."
How in the world did you get to be a Mormon without absorbing basic Mormon values, including the teachings of Christ?