Part of the ugly side of the history of America is its record of nativism and anti immigrant hysteria.
In the 1840s and 1850s, it was anti Catholic hysteria against the Irish and the German immigrants fleeing from poverty and political turmoil. The “American” or Know Nothing Party was formed, had some members in Congress, and had former President Millard Fillmore (Whig) win the state of Maryland (heavily Catholic) in the Electoral College in the Presidential Election of 1856.
In the 1870s and 1880s, it was anti Asian hysteria, mostly Chinese at the time, and often led by Irish who had forgotten the prejudice and discrimination they had faced in an earlier generation,and it led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, courageously vetoed by President Chester Alan Arthur but passed over his veto by a two thirds majority in the House of Representatives and Senate.
In the 1920s through the Second World War in the 1940s, it was anti “new” immigration, to stop the massive wave of Catholics and Eastern European Jews from coming to America, as well as anti Japanese prejudice, replacing the Chinese who had already been banned from migration to America since 1882.
This led to the horrors of Italians, Jews, and other southern and eastern Europeans denied admission to America during the time of the rise and triumph of Fascism in Italy under Benito Mussolini and Nazism under Adolf Hitler in Germany.
The result was the Holocaust, which America could have worked against by admission of refugees, but just like now, it was Republicans, some Democrats, and conservatives who lobbied against children and women and old people being admitted, due to racism and nativism.
It also led to the forced movement of Japanese Americans into internment camps during the Second World War, as an hysterical reaction to Pearl Harbor being attacked by Japan.
In more recent decades, we have seen growing anti Hispanic and anti Latino discrimination, and now against Muslim and Arab refugees, as if we have learned nothing from our past.
America has been a beacon of hope in a difficult world, and we must not lose our image that the Statue of Liberty represents, so we must salute and applaud President Barack Obama for coming out forcefully against Republican Governors and members of Congress, who are demonstrating the ugliest side of the American experience once again!
House passed the bill restricting Syrian refugees. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/house-passes-gop-bill-restricting-syrian-refugees
Carson compares human beings to dogs. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/carson-911-attackers-werent-sophisticated-syrian-refugees-rabid-dogs
Several of my Democrat friends and family are concerned about how secure are we. What people are concerned about is the news about the passport.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/15/europe/paris-attacks-passports
Obama with his stubbornness on Syrian refugees manage to unite Republicans and divide Democrats. The Syrian refugee bill suspends — not even ends — the intake of Syrians fleeing the bloodbath that the Obama administration has done nothing to stop. The bill passed the House with a huge veto-proof majority (289-137) with 47 Democrats joining in support.
In the meantime since the signing of the disastrous Iran Deal, Iran has illegally fired off a missile, nabbed another American, send ground troops into Syria and managed to evade an effective verification system for the nuclear deal. (“The latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear program raises concerns about the U.N. watchdog’s ability to verify Tehran’s compliance with the nuclear deal, according to an analysis . . . published by the Institute for Science and International Security on Wednesday.â€) http://www.thetower.org/2589-latest-iaea-report-casts-doubts-on-nuclear-deal-verification-process/
In other words, knowing the deal was problematic at best, Democrats put partisan loyalty above the national security needs of the country on the single most important issue in decades — and now wind up looking like dupes.
Our troll’s tower.org site is a fear-mongering site, and, therefore, not considered credible.
“The IAEA-Iran agreement regarding Parchin has deviated significantly from well-established safeguards practices, which involve the full physical presence of inspectors on location, the integrity of the samples they take themselves, and the ability of the IAEA to draw definitive conclusions with the requisite level of assurances.†http://www.defenddemocracy.org/content/uploads/documents/Strengthening_Verification_JCPOA.pdf
Defenddemocracy.org is yet again another of our troll’s favorite sites for alarmist rhetoric and fear mongering, which he obviously considers are real sources for news (ROFL), hence why he can’t be taken seriously.
Encrypted cell phone apps is what helped the terrorists in Paris stay under the radar.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/paris-attacks-how-encrypted-apps-help-terrorists-stay-below-the-radar/
So much for the Republican lie that we are being flooded with “illegal” immigrants.
http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/national/study-finds-more-mexicans-leaving-the-u-s-than-coming/article_e419a58e-89f1-55a4-aaa9-851ecf065a62.html
Pragmatic: The article refers only to Mexican Illegal Immigrants. I didn’t know that only Mexicans immigrated illegally to the USA.
LOL! Very stupid troll, isn’t he? 😉 The fact is, the number one demographic that constitutes illegal immigration is Latin-Americans, particularly those from Mexico.
Some online picture tributes to Diesel, the dog that was killed during the raid. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3324782/Twitter-users-post-pictures-pets-paying-tribute-police-dog.html
Thanks for that. Funniest one is the dog’s head on the person’s body.