Immigration Watch International (2): Ron DeSantis says US should NOT accept refugees from Gaza because 'they are all anti-Semitic'

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Ron DeSantis says US should NOT accept refugees from Gaza because 'they are all anti-Semitic'

Ron DeSantis on Saturday insisted the United States should refuse to take in any refugees from Gaza, saying they were 'all anti-Semitic'.

The Israeli military has ordered Gazans living in the north of the country to move to the south, ahead of an expected ground invasion.

The tiny enclave, among the most densely-packed territory in the world, is home to two million people - half of them children.

With their land surrounded by Israel and the eight-mile border with Egypt closed amid diplomatic wrangling over letting Gazans out, the people living there are trapped.

DeSantis said they should not be allowed in to the United States.

'I don't know what Biden is going to do, but we cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees,' DeSantis told a gathering in Creston, Iowa on Saturday.

'I am not going to do that. If you look at how they behave, not all of them are Hamas, but they are all anti-Semitic. None of them believe in Israel's right to exist.

'None of the Arab states are willing to take any of them. The Arab state should be taking them.

'You don't fly people and import them into the United States of America.'

Of the seven million Palestinians living outside of their territory, 6.3 million are in Arab countries, according to 2021 data reported by the Washington DC-based think tank Arab Center.

Jordan has the largest population of Palestinians living outside of their homeland, followed by Israel, Syria, and Chile - home to the largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East.

Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt all have significantly larger Palestinian communities than the United States.

Approximately 170,000 Palestinians live in the United States, according to census data.

Jamaal Bowman, a Democrat congressman representing New York and a member of the progressive 'Squad', said on Saturday that the United States should open its doors.

'Fifty percent of the population in Gaza are children. The international community as well as the United States should be prepared to welcome refugees from Palestine while being very careful to vet and not allow members of Hamas,' he said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12631477/ron-desantis-gaza-refugees-not-welcome-united-states.html

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Immigration Watch International (2)

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Ron DeSantis says US should NOT accept refugees from Gaza because 'they are all anti-Semitic'

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