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I don’t understand this. They escaped to a safe haven. And since they are safe where they are, why can’t they stay there, get jobs,and start a new life just like they want to do here. They’ve been there for over a year and they won’t have to move again, relocate their kids in schools or neighborhoods by finding a residence. Therefore, they have accomplished their goal of finding a safe haven. Looking at it the other way, they used to call this having your cake and eating it, too. In other words, once the cake is eaten, it is gone. It can be used to say that one cannot or should not have or want more than one deserves or is reasonable. The proverb’s meaning is similar to the phrases “you can’t have the best of both worlds.”

"why can’t they stay there, get jobs,and start a new life just like they want to do here?" The problem is that you did not read the part of the article where is states that,

Enacted in 1989 to enable Jews and Christian minorities from the former Soviet Union to settle in the United States as refugees, the Lautenberg Amendment was expanded in 2003 to include Iranian religious minorities. Austria agreed to serve as a transit point. The applicants cannot work, attend school or receive government benefits while they wait for the United States to process their cases.

The real question is why would the NYT be advocating for them, which is the issue of the next post.

Oh. I read it. And just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Their intent was to find a safe haven from persecution. They’re in one. And just because a political group says they can, doesn’t mean much to me. We also call Islam a religion, we recognize nazis to vote, we still in many places get away with mistreating black Americans, we turn loose felons everyday that the libs are trying to get voting rights back for, over the last 100 years we have invented words to categorize people so they can be controlled. And every one of those situations was created by politics, not reality.

So telling me a group of people can enter this country already over run with people who can’t pay their bills, can’t find work, and end up a taxpayer problem, when they were trying to find a safe haven they are sitting in because a group of politicians says they can, not that they have to, is not on my hot list.

rwood