12-30-2016, 09:27 PM
(12-30-2016, 08:57 PM)Dill Wrote: LOL, that is why we are not accepting Christian "refugees" from Israel.
When I lived in Germany I helped an Assyrian (Chaldean) Christian apply for asylum at the US embassy on grounds of political persecution, because Saddam had killed some of his family. But that was in 1987-88, when Saddam was officially not a tyrant, but our bulwark against Iran, and the application was rejected. Germany granted him a temporary residence, but also refused to consider him a political refugee. He was eventually given US Asylum in the mid -90s, after Saddam was ejected from Kuwait. Last I heard he was living somewhere in Chicago.
This is the unfortunate truth of public policy. Everything one segment does can impact another, and so the political dance must be engaged in. When you decide whether to accept a refugee or not it can have an impact on international relations, much more than you'd think based upon the person in front of you.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
