A lot of what you say has merit and definitely demonstrates grace ... however, the scripture teaches wisdom along with financial prudence, and it would be hard to be wise, thrifty, prudent and Godly when spending money to support these refugees and illegals is money this country must borrow at high interest, in order to house, feed and provide care for them. A cost that would be bared by the hosting nation until jobs could be found, and because jobs are scarce in the US, we could be on the hook indefinitely.
Couple of thoughts here:
1.) I'm assuming you actually read the links that you post to bolster your assertions, but I am starting to wonder, since your assertion about how many people are on "welfare" was refuted by the link that you posted. The other link you originally posted (the CNN story) explains that the 10,000 refugees are part of the 75,000 refugee quota for the year. In other words, we have already planned to receive 75,000 refugees and this is part of our prepared capacity to do it - not something that we are doing at the last minute. The only thing we didn't know was the identity of the refugees.
2.) You seem to think that refugees are no willing to work hard and bring no skills to the U.S. As the son and grandson of a refugee family, I can tell you that they worked extremely hard to make a living without taking anything from the government. Moreover, my grandfather started his OWN business using the skills he brought over and did not take a job from anyone else. Healthy economies are always growing and immigrants are often quite entrepreneurial and will create jobs for themselves and others.
3.) You seem to equate thing the reason that refugees are fleeing their country is for jobs. There may be a few like that, but most are fleeing for fear of their lives. This is not about economic betterment, but survival. When my mother's family was trying to immigrate after World War II, the United States didn't want them. Politicians blocked legislation to allow those poor and undesirable European people from entering the country because they would be a drain on the U.S. economy and they might take jobs away from our boys returning from war. So instead, hundreds of thousands of people, maybe more, were marched at gunpoint to countries that had turned Communist or were otherwise under the control of the Soviet Union. When they arrive, women and little girls were savagely raped and most people were shot. If you were lucky, you ended up in a labor camp for decades. My mother's family was very fortunate that they were able to come to the United States and escape that fate, but it is not because the United States was generous. A compromise bill allowed a small number of people to come IF they had a U.S. sponsor (who had to demonstrate a certain level of financial resources) who would ensure that the refugees would not take a penny of government assistance. That was obviously impossible for most, but my grandmother had a relative she had never met who was in the country who generously decided to do something.
4.) A joke among my friends is that if you wait until you think you are financially ready to have a baby, you never will. Babies (and children) are extremely expensive and they don't make much economic sense for a long time. But eventually, they will often end up doing more than you ever imagined. We can always come up with excuses that it does not make fiscal sense to do the right thing. Moreover, people have been coming up with the same excuses throughout U.S. history:
"What means the paying of the passage and emptying out upon our shores such floods of pauper emigrants — the contents of the poor house and the sweepings of the streets? — multiplying tumults and violence, filling our prisons, and crowding our poor-houses, and quadrupling our taxation, and sending annually accumulating thousands to the poll to lay their inexperienced hand upon the helm of our power?" - Lyman Beecher, Leader of the Second Great Awakening, on English immigrants, 1834
"The enormous influx of alien foreigners will in the end prove ruinous to American workingmen, by REDUCING THE WAGES OF LABOR to a standard that will drive them from the farms and workshops altogether." - Opinion article in the Philadelphia Sun, 1854
"Standing behind them are Christian employers of this land, who would rather import heathen willing to work for barely enough to sustain life than retain a brother Christian at a wage sufficient to live as becomes a Christian. We do not want Opium or the Chinese who grow it." - Terence Powderly, Irish-American labor leader, 1892
"We demand the change of the national naturalization laws by the repeal of the act authorizing the naturalization of minors…We demand for the protection of our citizen laborers, the prohibition of the importation of pauper labor, and the restriction of immigration…We protest against the gross negligence and laxity with which the Judiciary of our land administer the present naturalization laws, and against the practice of naturalizing aliens." - statement of principles of the American Protective Association, 1894
"The people of this country are too tolerant. There’s no other country in the world where they’d allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us." - John Dos Passos, early 20th century novelist, on U.S. immigration policy
"They are coming in such numbers and we are unable adequately to take care of them…It simply amounts to unrestricted and indiscriminate dumping into this country of people of every character and description…If there were in existence a ship that could hold three million human beings, then three million Jews of Poland would board to escape to America." -Congressional hearing, 1920
"Now, what do we find in all our large cities? Entire sections containing a population incapable of understanding our institutions, with no comprehension of our national ideals, and for the most part incapable of speaking the English language. Foreign language information service gives evidence that many southern Europeans resent as an unjust discrimination the quota laws and represent America as showing race hatred and unmindful of its mission to the world. The reverse is true. America’s first duty is to those already within her own shores." - Representative Grant Hudson, 1924
If even a small percent of what I say is factual, then proposing to bring these folks here is in fact not a sound Biblical principle.
We already have clear biblical commands to take care of those who are strangers in need. I would gladly pay a little more in taxes to save some lives. But we are not even talking about that. You are opposed to taking in refugees that are already part of the small allotment established in law and in the budget (that is, if you actually read and understood the primary article you linked).
Let me share an example of why bringing them here would be a problem that would be emotionally difficult to end. In order to encourage the adoption of more cats and dogs, the rescue shelters practice leaving their most adorable, most friendly pets in "foster homes!" These folks know that after a few days with the pet at the home of the fostering family the attachment to the pet grows, and 80% of the time, the fostered pet is kept. That's what rge rescue agency is counting on .... AND IN REALITY, that is what this government id counting on by bringing illegals and refugees here. Hoping that Americans will not permit deporting these guexts somewhere down the line. And so far they are batting 1000%..
So you are concerned that refugees will become beloved members of communities? The horror!
I see that you want the refugees eventually deported. Refugees usually seek citizenship, so they would not be deported unless they violated the laws of the United States and/or the terms of their immigration status. Seems to me that this might not be about jobs at all.
This must be stopped if we are to have a nation that is financially stable.
Refugee families are usually the most productive people you can imagine. Back in the 1970s, as the U.S. was pulling out of Vietnam, a large number of Vietnamese refugees escaped death and were resettled in the United States - quite a few in my community. After they got their bearings and worked out some plans, they started their own businesses using the skills they had brought with them. They ended up boosting the local economy and became productive and beloved citizens.
If you stopped assuming that refugees are a drain on the economy, then you might see that they are a net positive to the economic health of a region. Sure, you can find some deadbeats in every community, but they are the exception, not the rule.
So while I want to have heart, 19 trillion dollars in debt tell me we have problems to repair here before we open up more lines of credits than we could ever afford to pay back. The days of living high on borrowed money must end....
I agree that we are in way over our head in debt, but refugees didn't get us there and they won't have much to do with keeping us there - in fact, they will probably help us pay it off. But the talk about the national debt is a red herring in this discussion.
