Posted on 08/01/2014 3:43:41 AM PDT by servo1969
Fox News host Tucker Carlson and contributor Kirsten Powers bitterly clashed over the United States’ supposed “moral obligation” to illegal immigrant refugees around the world, with Powers invoking Christian principles and Carlson countering that “this is not a theocracy” and no one has “a moral right to American tax dollars and physical asylum in the United States.”
Carlson — who is also editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller — and Powers appeared on Fox’s “Outnumbered” on Thursday to discuss growing opposition to President Obama’s handling of illegal immigration. As tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children cross the border claiming refugee status, opposition to allowing hordes of asylum-seekers into the country at all has also grown more pronounced.
“Fifty-three percent of Americans believe that Americans do not have a moral obligation to offer asylum to people who come to the U.S. to escape violence or persecution in their home country,” Powers lamented. “That’s un-American.”
Carlson immediately pushed back. “So you’re saying that the United States has an obligation — anyone who’s suffering around the world has a right to come here and be supported by you and me?” he asked.
“Yes!” Powers replied. “Hey, ever been to the Statue of Liberty?”
“So you’re saying — in Congo for example, where there’s been a war for 20 years — every Congolese has a moral right to come here and we have a moral obligation to pay for it?” Carlson continued.
Powers invoked several other American tropes, including the image of a “shining city on the hill.” But Carlson pressed on.
“So I have a moral obligation to share my earnings and my country with people I’ve never met because they are suffering?” he asked.
“Yes, you absolutely do,” Powers said forcefully. “Are you a Christian?”
“I am absolutely a Christian,” Carlson responded.
“Ok, have you read the Bible?” she continued. “Because this —”
“This is not a theocracy!” Carlson went on. “The country is not run according to Christian precepts here!”
“What you’re saying is the U.S. government has a responsibility,” he explained. “Now you may have a Christian obligation. You can give charity money. That’s a massive difference.”
Carlson and Powers continued to fight over whether “every person” suffering worldwide should be welcomed by the United States.
“Does any other country have this obligation, or just ours?” Carlson asked.
“Other countries, of course they can!” Powers said. “But we’re talking about our country! Are you saying that people who have been fleeing persecution throughout history have not come to the United States?”
“No, of course they have,” Carlson said. “But they don’t have a moral right to American tax dollars and physical asylum in the United States. They just don’t.”
Does our obligation end at the border? I mean why not just take over their whole country and rape their resources to feed and cloth and provide 60” led TV’s.
Good article.
They keep saying “children.” Only about 20% are children, the rest are members of various gangs. 0bama has brought the war to us.
I disagree. Her heart is in the same place as her head - up her a$$. And I don't say this without thought.
The reason I say it is that every dollar extracted at gunpoint by the government and spent on these juvenile criminals is a dollar that the parents who actually EARNED it can't spend on their own kids. By robbing the fruits of the labor of the taxpayers, you diminish what they can do for their families and give it to those who have no right or claim to the plundered resources. Is it really compassion to take the bread out of the mouths of the taxpayers' children (figuratively speaking) and give it to criminals? Where is the liberal compassion for those who have to pay?
Hmmmmmmm?
IMHO Kirsten needs to study the scriptures a long time before she begins to lecture American taxpayers on what we "owe" others according to her Christian principles.
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Kirstin needs to post her Residential address at these "refugeee centers" and accept all that show up. Otherwise what she is promoting is the theft of my tax dollars to support ILLEGAL behavior.
Better yet, someone needs to ask her to state for the record how much of her Income she has “donated” to this cause she is promoting? Or is it just her mindset that other people should pay the cost.
Why does Estadoes Unidoes have a greater moral obligation than Mexico (home to the world’s second richest man)?
For a pundit in the tank on the plus side of liberalism, she IS good looking......
Tucker give it up you will never win that argument with a libtard. Because its all about emotions and fairness. Its just not fair to let anyone suffer. Its just not fair to deny people their god given right to flee to America at will.
Most of the founding fathers were Christians whose rallying cry was.”freedom!”
Now they’re trying to.tell us the Christian rallying cry should be “more bondage through higher taxes”.
whatever happened to personal charity? Collectivism destroys real charity.
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