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Happy World Refugee Day

Read the sign, Mikey...

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Today is World Refugee Day.

If you've been fortunate enough to have been born in America, imagine for a moment if circumstance had placed you somewhere else. Imagine if you'd been born in a country where you grew up fearing for your life, and eventually the lives of your children. A place where you finally found yourself so desperate to flee persecution, violence, and suffering that you'd be willing to travel thousands of miles under cover of darkness, enduring dangerous conditions, propelled forward by that very human impulse to create for our kids a better life.

That's the reality for so many of the families whose plights we see and heart-rending cries we hear. And to watch those families broken apart in real time puts to us a very simple question: are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together? Do we look away, or do we choose to see something of ourselves and our children?

Our ability to imagine ourselves in the shoes of others, to say “there but for the grace of God go I,” is part of what makes us human. And to find a way to welcome the refugee and the immigrant – to be big enough and wise enough to uphold our laws and honor our values at the same time – is part of what makes us American. After all, almost all of us were strangers once, too. Whether our families crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we’re only here because this country welcomed them in, and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, how our last names sound, or the way we worship. To be an American is to have a shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us deserve the chance to become something better.

That’s the legacy our parents and grandparents and generations before created for us, and it’s something we have to protect for the generations to come. But we have to do more than say “this isn’t who we are.” We have to prove it – through our policies, our laws, our actions, and our votes.

-- Barack Obama
 
UNCjigga said:
Today is World Refugee Day.

If you've been fortunate enough to have been born in America, imagine for a moment if circumstance had placed you somewhere else. Imagine if you'd been born in a country where you grew up fearing for your life, and eventually the lives of your children. A place where you finally found yourself so desperate to flee persecution, violence, and suffering that you'd be willing to travel thousands of miles under cover of darkness, enduring dangerous conditions, propelled forward by that very human impulse to create for our kids a better life.

That's the reality for so many of the families whose plights we see and heart-rending cries we hear. And to watch those families broken apart in real time puts to us a very simple question: are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together? Do we look away, or do we choose to see something of ourselves and our children?

Our ability to imagine ourselves in the shoes of others, to say “there but for the grace of God go I,” is part of what makes us human. And to find a way to welcome the refugee and the immigrant – to be big enough and wise enough to uphold our laws and honor our values at the same time – is part of what makes us American. After all, almost all of us were strangers once, too. Whether our families crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we’re only here because this country welcomed them in, and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, how our last names sound, or the way we worship. To be an American is to have a shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us deserve the chance to become something better.

That’s the legacy our parents and grandparents and generations before created for us, and it’s something we have to protect for the generations to come. But we have to do more than say “this isn’t who we are.” We have to prove it – through our policies, our laws, our actions, and our votes.

-- Barack Obama
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Trump's version:

Today, its a really big day, we are here to celebrate refugees. As a businessman I have done lots to help refugees by giving them low wage jobs in my hotels and at my golf courses. No one is a bigger friend to refugees than me and its why I have to say we have to do more to take their kids away. Because the Democrats have made me do it. Since they won't stay in their home countries. America is for Americans not people from other countries who are probably murders, rapists, and drug dealers although I'm sure some are good people, but they don't send their best, only the worst in the most bigly ways but I'm a really good friend and we're going to something about it very soon and its going to be tremendous because China is going to stop doing things and we're going to make them pay for the wall that is going to be really beautiful, have we talked about how great it is going to look? We are doing these things because these people need to be stopped from coming into our country because Stephan told me that. You know the Nazi that works here? He is great guy, cares a lot about the white man and he is doing a tremendous job. (Goes on for 15 more minutes)

MAGA
 
imported_tajmahal said:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4283134/canada-migrant-families-children-detention/

"The children are not labelled as detainees by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), but rather as “guests.” Yet, their daily lives mirror those of detainees."
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Good lord but you are an idiot.

Note this from the article. It deals with the issue of parental *choice*:

"It highlights that parents who are detained often face the difficult decision of surrendering their child to foster care or bring them into detention."

Just a bit different from "We're just taking your child off to have a bath" and never bringing the kid back.

This seems just a wee bit different as well:

"In November 2017, the federal government said it was working to stop minors from being detained, with the exception of “extremely limited circumstances.” The directive promised to take every step necessary to act according to the international principle dubbed “best interests of the child.”

And while things aren't perfect:

"According to the most recent statistics available from the CBSA, 155 minors have been kept in detention facilities in the 2017-2018 year already — that includes foreign nationals, permanent residents and Canadians citizens. Five of those children were unaccompanied."

155 minors in at least a year is a far cry from over 2000 in a month.

You are one stupid sock.
 
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