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Refugees and Illegals .... when will we say. "No mas!"?

poncho

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I don't understand these responses, it looks like you are all from western countries. But here in Europe, when you see the crying children, whose family was killed and house bombed you figure out quickly that it's not politics anymore

It's humanity, ethics and faith. You should not refuse the most fundamental things such as safety, cleanness, and food from these people. All I can say is to come to europe, help people, have a glance and maybe you see otherwise after that.

Seems to me you're the one refusing to see the most fundamental thing in this situation. It's Washington (our leaders) and Europe's (your leaders) policy of destabilizing Syria to overthrow the government there that is creating the hellish conditions that are causing people to flee not only Syria but a host of other nations as well.

If it weren't for the destruction and death caused by the policy of "regime change" that our leaders and your leaders are so consumed with there would be no refugees flooding Europe right now.

Our leaders (your's and mine) have embarked on an insane un democratic quest to overthrow every government that doesn't obey their orders and we are all paying for it. You, me and the people fleeing those countries.

It's fine to have empathy towards others but don't let that blind you to what and who created the conditions these "refugees" are fleeing from.

The best way IMHO to help these people is to stop destroying their countries and let them live in peace.

That's not politics that's common sense and decency.
 
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poncho

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Disagree in the threadRefugees and Illegals .... when will we say. "No mas!"?.

Yesterday at 11:23 PM

I don't mind if he disagrees I'm just confused about how he can disagree with something he can't read?

GERMAN SCHOOL KIDS FORCED TO CLEAN UP AFTER MIGRANTS

Parents in Germany are up in arms over a school project that requires their children to clean up the deluge of trash left behind by the wave of Muslim migrants pouring into the country.

With 1.5 million migrants set to arrive before the end of the year, children are being made to cook, clean and change beds at special asylum centers that are being set up throughout Germany.

A furious parent posted a letter she received from her child’s school outlining the details of the project.

“The Kiel Ministry of Education confirmed the letter was authentic. Already this week, as described above, the schoolchildren from a school in Lübeck had put fresh linen on the beds, sorted out clothing and helped out in the kitchen in an accommodation centre for refugees passing through,”reports Diversity Macht Frei. “This took place in the context of a project week intended to prepare the eighth-graders [age about 13-14] for practical work experience.”

Continue . . . http://www.infowars.com/german-school-kids-forced-to-clean-up-after-migrants/

LiveLeak.com - Migrants Dump Garbage from their Balconies : Augsburg Asylum Center, Germany

 
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Zaac

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I don't understand these responses, it looks like you are all from western countries. But here in Europe, when you see the crying children, whose family was killed and house bombed you figure out quickly that it's not politics anymore

It's humanity, ethics and faith. You should not refuse the most fundamental things such as safety, cleanness, and food from these people. All I can say is to come to europe, help people, have a glance and maybe you see otherwise after that.


They don't represent all of us. If you'll notice , there are several who care much more about their politics than they do about people. They care more about accumulating their stuff and being able to leave their stuff to their kids and grandkids than do about just people.

The GOP mantra should be "Love em until they leave the womb."
 

Zaac

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Yes, absolutely.

I posted a poll about a month ago to see how many people on this board have been refugees themselves, or have family members who have been refugees. No one who participated had been a refugee and very few had family members who have been refugees.

I don't think it is cold-heartedness for most people, but simply ignorance of the plight of refugees in general. When one does not have the problem on their doorstep, it is easy to come up with reasons not to get involved.

Thank you for the report from Europe!


I think it's just par for the course for a large majority of the folks on here and not on here who identify as Republicans. There's little to no empathy for anyone else who does not identify as Republican.
 

righteousdude2

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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


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).


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.


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.


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.


Well, that is what is great about America BB, you and I can have different points of views and live to see tomorrow! God bless and keep on believing!
 
I am not a "liberal counterpart," but I am a person of compassion and Christian calling. Will that do?


Even if that figure is accurate, the issue of a high number of people on "welfare" is not an issue of lack of jobs. But that figure is not accurate according to your own link.




The amount of debt we have accrued has a lot to do with very poor and self-indulgent decisions we have made as a nation, not from helping refugees.

The United States has a very long history of denying refugees entry into the country that are politically undesirable. We prevented a large number of Jews from fleeing the Holocaust into the United States - many of them died, we refused entry into the United States for most "Eastern Europeans" and Russians who sought asylum - and many of them died when they were forced to return to Communist countries.

So what is your solution? Drive them back into Syria and let them die?


Yes, loving your neighbor sometimes strains the budget. How much is a life worth?


So the choice - as YOU have posed it - is doing a good thing for others (loving your neighbor) or maintaining a certain standard of living.

How can a Christian make any choice other than loving one's neighbor?


No. People commit crimes because they are evil. Society doesn't make them do it. (Isn't blaming society a "liberal" tactic?)


With the attitude you have expressed here, are you sure you want him to come?

“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on His right and the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

For I was hungry
and you gave Me something to eat;
I was thirsty
and you gave Me something to drink;
I was a stranger and you took Me in;
I was naked and you clothed Me;
I was sick and you took care of Me;
I was in prison and you visited Me.’

“Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or without clothes and clothe You? When did we see You sick, or in prison, and visit You?’

“And the King will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’ Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!

For I was hungry
and you gave Me nothing to eat;
I was thirsty
and you gave Me nothing to drink;
I was a stranger
and you didn’t take Me in;
I was naked
and you didn’t clothe Me,
sick and in prison
and you didn’t take care of Me.’
“Then they too will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or without clothes, or sick, or in prison, and not help You?’

“Then He will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me either.’

“And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”


Matthew 25:31-46

Wow, you really hit the nail on the head. I was trying to come up with some sort of response, but to be honest I am so terrible at debating. Everything you have said is entirely how I feel. The kindness in my heart speaks volumes when it comes to other people in this world. I don't see borders, but a world full of people and some of them need more help than others.
 

poncho

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Well, that is what is great about America BB, you and I can have different points of views and live to see tomorrow! God bless and keep on believing!

Yeah and now you can give anyone that has a different opinion than you a thumbs down on all their posts. Nothing petty about that right?
 
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Revmitchell

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Yes, absolutely.

I posted a poll about a month ago to see how many people on this board have been refugees themselves, or have family members who have been refugees. No one who participated had been a refugee and very few had family members who have been refugees.

I don't think it is cold-heartedness for most people, but simply ignorance of the plight of refugees in general. When one does not have the problem on their doorstep, it is easy to come up with reasons not to get involved.

Thank you for the report from Europe!

What is ignorance is the danger posed by bringing them here.
 

poncho

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A growing number of women and young girls housed in refugee shelters in Germany are being raped, sexually assaulted and even forced into prostitution by male asylum seekers, according to German social work organizations with first-hand knowledge of the situation.

Many of the rapes are occurring in mixed-gender shelters, where, due to a lack of space, German authorities are forcing thousands of male and female migrants to share the same sleeping areas and restroom facilities.

Conditions for women and girls at some shelters are so perilous that females are being described as "wild game" fighting off Muslim male predators. But many victims, fearing reprisals, are keeping silent, social workers say.

At the same time, growing numbers of German women in towns and cities across the country are being raped by asylum seekers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Many of the crimes are being downplayed by German authorities and the national media, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments.

On August 18, a coalition of four social work organizations and women's rights groups sent a two-page letter to the leaders of the political parties in the regional parliament in Hesse, a state in west-central Germany, warning them of the worsening situation for women and children in the refugee shelters. The letter said:

Continue . . . http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6527/migrants-rape-germany
 

carpro

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They are products of their societies and their religion. They don't change just because you take them in. They just bring their problems to you and you provide them with more victims...your own citizens.
 

poncho

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Asylum seekers are driving a surge in violent crime in cities and towns across Germany. German authorities, however, are downplaying the lawlessness, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiment.

A confidential police report leaked to a German newspaper reveals that a record-breaking 38,000 asylum seekers were accused of committing crimes in the country in 2014. Analysts believe this figure — which works out to more than 100 a day — is only the tip of the iceberg, as many crimes are either not resolved or not reported.

The current spike in crime — including rapes, sexual and physical assaults, stabbings, home invasions, robberies, burglaries and drug trafficking — comes amid a record-breaking influx of refugees from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Western Balkans.

Continue . . . http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6668/germany-migrant-crime-wave
 
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