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In reply to the discussion: Bloomberg Poll: Most Americans Oppose Syrian Refugee Resettlement [View all]ericson00
(2,707 posts)from war zones, and in recent years, only have in circumstances where genocide/ethnic cleansing was threatened (think Balkan Wars, African conflicts, etc). That meaning a group who risks being largely whiped out based solely on ethnicity/race or ethnoreligious grouping. Not the case with Arab Muslims. Thats why I reject the comparison to Jews in 1939 (the history of pograms was known back then even before The Holocaust). We can't just be the dumping ground for the world's refugees not threatened by genocide.
Also, how about the 12 million undocumenteds whose demographic has proven to integrate, not take up radical ideologies, and be economically productive, that Donald Trump would kick out? How about the people who would lose their health care when Trump replaces it with something "fabulous?" The environmental legacy of Obama, which is sterling?