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Why Hasn’t Trump’s Refugee Policy Repelled His Christian Supporters?
The Atlantic ^ | September 21, 2018 | Conor Friedersdorf

Posted on 09/21/2018 4:33:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Refugees are not simply impoverished migrants. A refugee is defined, by a 1951 international convention, as a person who, “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted … is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.”

The maximum number of refugees that the U.S. should accept in a given year is a fraught question. Dara Lind reports that in the final year of the Carter administration, federal officials settled on the answer 231,700. Under Reagan, the answer fluctuated between a high of 217,000 and a low of 67,000. The most common answer under George H.W. Bush was 131,000. Under Bill Clinton, the number ranged between 142,000 and 78,000. Under George W. Bush, the most common figure was 70,000, while under Barack Obama, figures ranged from 70,000 to 85,000 until the last year of his presidency––on his way out, with kids at the border, the figure surged to 110,000.

What the last 6 presidents—three Republicans, three Democrats—have in common is settling on a significantly bigger number than the Trump administration announced this week as its new refugee maximum.

“Trump plans to cap the number of refugees that can be resettled in the United States next year at 30,000,” The New York Times reports, “further cutting an already drastically scaled-back program that offers protection to foreigners fleeing violence and persecution.” (Last year’s figure under Team Trump was 45,000 refugees, though that is misleading in that far fewer refugees were actually resettled in practice—according to a recent article in The Guardian....

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: bible; charismatics; charity; christians; evangelicals; immigration; obama; persecution; refugees; trump
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1 posted on 09/21/2018 4:33:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

well-founded fear of being persecuted by who?

The local gang? Nope. NOT a refugee


2 posted on 09/21/2018 4:35:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hang on! Have the trust funded Maoists that read The Atlantic suddenly (re)discovered Christianity?


3 posted on 09/21/2018 4:35:29 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...and they never will...shh, don’t tell them.


4 posted on 09/21/2018 4:35:43 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Left proclaimed victory in the culture war saying that they crushed the Religious Right Moral majority, now they’re baffled that appeals to morality no longer work and their opponents are nihilists who hold nothing sacred.

This is what you wrought.


5 posted on 09/21/2018 4:37:27 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We are neither blind, nor stupid, we see what had happened in Germany, Sweden, France, Great Britain. Etc. This is not a supposed lack of Christian charity it is about survival.

They would allow killers, thieves and rapists to come in to our country unchecked


6 posted on 09/21/2018 4:38:38 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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Because "refugee" is a lie. Half of these people are not refugees from anything but their own incompetence, corruption, greed, or hatred. They're not coming here seeking refuge. They're coming here demanding we accommodate them, that we change our way of life to make them more comfortable. And a good number of them actually hate us and want to destroy us.

There's nothing Christian about baring your throat to a wild animal so it can rip you to pieces.

I've heard the old saying about opening the door to strangers because people have entertained angels unaware. But the opposite is true too; there's a far greater chance of welcoming in demons.

7 posted on 09/21/2018 4:39:56 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why haven’t socialists been disgusted with Democrats complete failure to help or support black men and women in Democrat controlled cities?


8 posted on 09/21/2018 4:41:02 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Probably because the United States is NOT a refugee camp. It’s our home.


9 posted on 09/21/2018 4:42:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: BenLurkin

They’re trying to wrangle it so that everyone is a refugee.

The only answer to that is that no one is a refugee.

Shut the door and nail it closed.


10 posted on 09/21/2018 4:43:07 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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Works for me.


11 posted on 09/21/2018 4:44:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t recall the part in the Bible ordering us to accept billions of criminal illegals and non-Christians into our homes.


12 posted on 09/21/2018 4:44:36 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Because we know that a lot of violent evil people are abusing refugee status to get in here.

We’re christians. That doesn’t mean “stupid.”


13 posted on 09/21/2018 4:45:09 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My answer to the leftists at The Atlantic is this. When leftists want to “drive religion from the public square,” they cannot then try to justify public policy on the basis of religion. Sorry, you tossed that tool out of your tool box a long time ago.


14 posted on 09/21/2018 4:51:15 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Persevero

Be as innocent as doves, but as wise as serpents. Matthew 10:16


15 posted on 09/21/2018 4:56:26 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Many American citizens are poor.

Let’s help them.

******** countries need to keep their wretched refuse.


16 posted on 09/21/2018 4:57:08 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Friedersdorf of the Atlantic is a dabbler. From time to time he dabbles in religion and gets burned. It is recalled that he famously termed Obama the post-religion President to excuse the President’s attendance at a church that despised America. He can’t win this article’s argument with Christians because they are aware that the Obama refugee program for the Middle East was decidedly anti-Christian. And as for their program at the Mexican border, he had a devil’s compact with Protestant groups looking to cash in on the big bucks, and with the moribund Catholic Church that was dreadfully in need of fresh blood to fill its pews.


17 posted on 09/21/2018 5:04:33 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because Christians are not beciles


18 posted on 09/21/2018 5:06:03 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

God helps those who helps themselves. We prefer they help themselves in their own countries, rather then helping themselves to our country


19 posted on 09/21/2018 5:06:03 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (You can lead a horse to water but you can't make the horse drink.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jesus wasn’t a citizen of the Roman Empire.


20 posted on 09/21/2018 5:07:50 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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