The Senate defeated a Republican bill on Thursday that “would have curtailed assistance for thousands of Afghans evacuated last month,” Reuters reported (here). All 50 GOP senators voted to “cut off housing, medical, food and other aid for the resettled Afghans after March 31, 2023[...]
Posts Tagged ‘refugees’
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany Plead with Trump to Show Compassion for the Syrians
Jewish Holocaust survivors who fled Nazi Germany and other countries as children have a request for President Donald Trump: “Keep the doors open to refugees.” In a letter to Trump released Monday, more than 200 family members and survivors of the Kindertransport ― a program that sent around 1[...]
November 29th, 2015 - 12:32 pm § in Christianity, Misc.
Fact Check: You’re far more likely to be killed by an American Christian terrorist than a Syrian refugee
“So are there any refugees who have become terrorists since finding a home in the U.S.? Yes — three. That’s out of the 784,000 refugees who have been resettled in the U.S. since 9/11. Kathleen Newland, also of the MPI, pointed this out earlier in the fall, adding that it was ‘worth n[...]
[...] November 17th, 2015 - 10:46 am § in Misc.
When the Jews were the Syrian Refugees
Mark Itzkowitz FACEBOOK Four months before Kristallnacht, 2/3 of polled Americans favored keeping refugees from Fascist lands, mostly Jews, out of the US. Two months after, 61% of Americans opposed a proposal to accept 10,000 Jewish refugee children. The SS St. Louis, carrying desperate Jewish ref[...]