New Hampshire must have the only Democrat governor with any sense.
Posted on 11/17/2015 3:44:52 AM PST by ruination
BOSTON - The Anti-Defamation League said it is "deeply disappointed" with GOP governors, including Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, for refusing to accept Syrian refugees after Friday's ISIS attacks that killed 129 people and injured more than 430 others in Paris.
"This country must not give into fear or bias by turning its back on our nation's fundamental commitment to refugee protection and human rights," Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said Monday, urging governors to keep their doors open during the humanitarian crisis.
"Now is precisely the time to stand up for our core values, including that we are a proud nation of immigrants," Greenblatt said. "To do otherwise signals to the terrorists that they are winning the battle against democracy and freedom."
Baker said he will not allow Massachusetts to accept any Syrian refugees until he learns more about how the federal government plans to screen them. "I would say no as of right now. I'm not interested in accepting refugees from Syria," he said Monday. "I would need to know a lot more than I know now before I agree to do anything."
After the Paris attacks, Baker and fellow Republican governors in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin announced they would not take in refugees trying to escape the violence in Syria, USA Today reports.
The concern, according to the Republican state leaders, is that Syrian refugees seeking resettlement in the United States might include people with terrorist ties. As of Monday evening, only one Democratic governor, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, had joined the chorus of GOP governors opposed to accepting refugees.
President Barack Obama has called on the U.S. to accept up to 10,000 refugees from Syria, where fighting has displaced millions, but Baker and other state leaders remain skeptical. However, the governor did not entirely rule out accepting refugees in the future, if the feds establish an appropriate vetting process.
The ADL, which fights anti–Semitism and promotes fair and humane immigration policies, has called Europe's current migrant crisis "the worst since World War II." The Jewish community is particularly affected by images of Syrians – more than half of the refugees hail from Syria – being uprooted from their homeland "only to find they are unwanted anyplace else," Greenblatt said.
"Many of these refugees are fleeing the same terrorists who perpetrated the horrendous attacks on Paris," he said.
The ADL has joined with several other Jewish organizations to form the Jewish Coalition for Syrian Refugees in Jordan in response to the humanitarian crisis resulting from Syria's civil war.
The U.S. did not increase quotas to specifically help Jewish Holocaust survivors until 1948. Non-Jewish displaced persons including some perpetrators also came to the U.S. in large numbers.
The subject of the survivor biography I am writing reached New York in 1951, eight years after he as a 10-year-old escaped the extermination that wiped out his family and entire community in Poland. Most of that time he was in DP camps in Germany because he couldn’t get into America.
I know. That is the rub. Groups like the ADL typically bemoan the lack of a change.
New Hampshire must have the only Democrat governor with any sense.
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You are confusing the Commandments with the Law. The Law is much more than the Commandments.
The Law only exists to prove to Man that he cannot save himself by adherence to the Law. Salvation comes from Christ Jesus. The Law only leads to failure since God’s standard is perfection and no one has ever perfectly followed the Law. Even thinking a lustful thought is a violation so we were dead before we even began. He who has the Son has life and he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
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Hard to believe the ADL could become more politicized than under Foxman, but by naming as his replacement a former member of both the Clinton and Obama administrations, that appears to be the future. I think aiding refugees in Jordan is a fine, humanitarian objective, though unconnected to the ADL's mission of fighting antisemitism. Advocating the transfer of refugees from Syria and Jordan to the US is far beyond their mission.
Ah yes . . . fighting “bias.” The number one Jewish priority since the Book of Joshua [/sarcasm].
How strange? Israel defends her borders, builds walls, aggressively deports illegal immigrants and doesn't take refugees from Islamic states. You would think they would be a model for the ADL.
Yet America is ridiculed for even considering doing any of these things.
Sure seems like a double standard. I really like Israel, and talk to my Israeli friend on Facebook all the time. Israel has moved to the position that it must remain a Jewish ethno-state.
Something like that is needed here, and was in place until the 1965 immigration reform act. 1965 Immigration Reform: Anatomy of a Disaster"
Not only has the bill failed in its stated purpose, it has realized many of its critics' worst nightmares. Concern mounted that this bill would radically change the ethnic composition of the United States. Such things were still considered legitimate concerns in 1965, in the same Congress that had just passed the key civil rights legislation of the 1960's.The disaster is all around us. Everything we were promised would not happen has.Specific influx predictions that were made seem tragicomic today. Senator Robert Kennedy predicted a total of 5,000 immigrants from India; his successor as Attorney General, Nicholas Katzenbach, foresaw a meager 8,000. Actual immigration from India has exceeded by 1,000-times Robert Kennedy's prediction.
These results were unforeseen by liberals easily led about by their emotions. Others were not so blind. Jewish organizations had labored since 1924 to unweave national origins quotas by admitting family members on non-quota visas. The B'nai B'rith Women and the American Council for Judaism Philanthropic Fund, among other Jewish organizations, supported this reform legislation while it was yet in subcommittee in the winter of 1965. Roman Catholics had the twin motivations of still-evolving social justice doctrine and the potential windfall of a mass influx of co-religionists from Latin America. Other organized minorities pressured for increased immigration to benefit relatives in their homelands. The ultra-liberal Americans for Democratic Action, the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild joined the chorus. Further, the Communist Party USA supported higher immigration on the grounds that it destabilizes working Americans.
The ONLY time the DEMS/Leftists adhere to the Constitution is when it furthers their goals/ideals.
Bring up sanctuary cities, SS/Welfare vs. 5th, 9th/10th. Show them their hypocrisy and they still will emotionally attack.
Oh please! Stop with the knee-jerk preschool “anti-semitic” nonsense!
We’re talking liberal Jews who are their own worst enemy.
You know who I’m talking about...Schumer, Streisand, Dreyfuss....
How would they feel if we knowingly let in Nazi War Criminals?
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
You targeted Jews in general, and the majority thereof, including those in the land Israel. What else is that but antisemitism ? Liberal Jews are not their own worst enemy; their worst enemy is the adversary and his servants, including those professing to worship and adore God while hating the Jews.
No I didn’t, I specified my statement. You took it that way and that’s your problem.
Liberal Jews are they’re own worst enemy. Hug a muzzie all you want, it won’t stop the bombings, stabbings, and killings of your people (as Bibi knows...)
BTW (and I know you don’t care—as a matter of fact, you’ll probably hate me more!), all of my charitable giving is to Jewish Messianic Ministries in Israel & Eastern Europe. Been doing it for years and we’re making A LOT of progress!
Your Messiah, who already came, is coming again. Very soon. He said so in His Olivet Discourse. Same Generation that sees Israel reborn, will see Him Return.
My prayer is that you, your family, and all of your friends find Him.
God Bless!
I’ll take your comments into consideration when you call on Israel to take them in, too. Jihadis want the goyim dead also, you know.
Do these Jews have a death wish? One fact about these invaders - they are all anti-Jewish.
You wrote:
"Most suicidal group of people on the face of the earth besides libs seems to be Jews (reform or atheist)."
Please invite those to whom you send money to visit this thread and publicly rebuke you for antisemitic comments.
Sucks to be the ADL today. LOL!
ADL = Judenrat for the NWO.
All that you quoted is true. And you fail miserably at meeting God’s perfect standard that requires us to follow each and every bit of the Law to the fullest extent. How often do you order your wife to live out of the house when she is on her period?
We need another way that makes us clean in God’s presence and according to his perfect standard. There is only one way.
All that you have quoted merely proves the need for Jesus and the impossibility of following the law.
Maybe they have a death wish for the rest of us.
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