Here’s a refugee rescue story on Sunday’s Washington Post front page. Predictably, the Post believes that any diverse person claiming to be a Victim should be welcomed to the United States rather than encouraged to fight for justice at home.
Below, the newsprint headline for the photo below is ‘Becoming Americans,’ after a 15,000-mile journey.
The star of today’s story is Ali Reza Ataie, a 22-year-old citizen of Afghanistan who appears able-bodied yet apparently didn’t want to do the messy work of defending freedom in his homeland. An Afghan could get hurt and besides, there are still US soldiers there [1] carrying the load. Better for Ali to find a soft touch somewhere, preferably in stupid-generous America.
As the Post points out, President Trump didn’t want Ali or his crew moving in, but was forced into it by pre-existing diplomacy. Obama filled the last months of his presidency with jamming in lots of muslims [2] with little screening for jihad [3] tendencies. The batch discussed in the article are the result of Obama’s muslim machinations [4].
Naturally the Post thinks all the foreign newbies are wonderful, with no bad apples among them. But we know that sort of supposition can be ill-informed. Let’s hope America is lucky for once.
The Washington Post story was reprinted by the Houston Chronicle, linked below:
‘Becoming Americans,’ after a 15,000-mile journey [5], Washington Post, October 12, 2019
GRAPEVINE, Texas – On the day that President Donald Trump slashed refugee admissions to their lowest level in four decades, the arrival of a dazed traveler at Dallas’ international airport last month offered a quiet rebuke.
The newcomer was walking the final steps of an improbable, 15,000-mile odyssey. There to greet him were four others who had followed the same epic path to an American life, along with a native-born citizen clutching a hand-drawn, red-and-blue sign: “Welcome to Texas!”
None would have been there had Trump had his way.
In a nearly three-year campaign that has encompassed walls, travel bans and the forced separation of children from their parents, the Trump administration has reshaped vast tracts of the U.S. government’s approach toward refugees and immigration.
But in one of his first attempts to bend policy to his will – an effort to block the arrival of refugees who had been detained by the Australian government on remote South Pacific islands — Trump lost.
“I guarantee you they are bad,” the president said during a testy exchange with the Australian prime minister a week after his inauguration. “That is why they are in prison.”
Now more than 600 of them are in the United States, living freely from California to Georgia and dozens of places in between.
After enduring years locked up by Australia for seeking asylum, they are making the most of their second chance — finding jobs, honing their English and putting down roots in a country half a world away from the one they had intended to reach.
To refugee advocates, their largely successful integration in their new land proves that the president’s loss has been the country’s gain.
[. . .]
As Barack Obama’s presidency came to an end in late 2016, and as the global population of displaced people swelled to record numbers, the administration was looking for ways to accept more refugees. It also wanted to encourage other nations to do the same.
[Refugee point person Anne] Richard struck a deal with the Australians that fall that was intended to accomplish both: The United States would accept up to 1,250 refugees from Nauru and Manus if the Australians took in more people from other parts of the globe. (Continues)