CNN reporter hammers Ted Cruz on Syrian crisis: Should your refugee dad have been kept out of US?
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/cnn-reporter-hammers-ted-cruz-on-syrian-crisis-should-your-refugee-dad-have-been-kept-out-of-us/CNN reporter hammered Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on his hysteria-stoking claims about Syrian refugees by repeatedly asking the Republican presidential candidate about his own father — who sought political asylum in the United States.
Cruz boasted that President Barack Obama had attacked him personally from overseas by criticizing the senator’s call to limit immigrant settlement to Christians only, saying the terrorist attacks in Paris showed why the religious test was necessary.
“What would have happened if your father, who was trying to get from Cuba to the United States, and the political leaders said, ‘Nope, we don’t think so, because who knows? Maybe you could be somebody who could, you know, commit crimes against Americans,'” said CNN’s Dana Bash.
Cruz said the situations weren’t at all comparable.
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Is she new? Hasn't she read the memo about coddling repukes?
We had an exchange student from Costa Rica in 1995. The American history teacher told her class that they always ran out of time, so he was going to start at the present and go backward in time, so the students would cover recent history first. Which the students wanted. A few years later, we hosted a boy from Spain, who also took American history. He pointed out that in his history class at home, the Spanish were the heroes. And this year, I am a liaison for another exchange student and her history class is going to go backward and the kids really like doing it that way.
I helped the student we hosted, and seeing American history 'against the flow' really made some major themes stand out. And learning that whoever writes the history books can influence the view was an eye-opener too
