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Remember THIS when Republicans say we shouldn't take in any syrian refugees. (Original Post) kpete Nov 2015 OP
Republicans are being totally manipulated by ISIS. octoberlib Nov 2015 #1
These republicans are clearly not Christian C_U_L8R Nov 2015 #2
Even Anne Frank was denied refugee status by the USA. ananda Nov 2015 #3
Omg that's not a fact taught to our schoolchildren!!! lostnfound Nov 2015 #7
Were all those saying no just Republicans? The2ndWheel Nov 2015 #4
k and r..no text Stuart G Nov 2015 #5
There is nothing new under the sun. Same anti-immigrant hatred and posturing is alive today.... Fred Sanders Nov 2015 #6

ananda

(28,866 posts)
3. Even Anne Frank was denied refugee status by the USA.
Wed Nov 18, 2015, 10:06 AM
Nov 2015

Fear can be such a powerful tool in getting people to lose their humanity.

http://historybuff.com/anne-frank-was-a-refugee-who-was-denied-entrance-to-the-united-states/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=HistoryBuff.com&utm_content=Anne%20Frank%20was%20a%20Refugee%20Who%20Was%20Denied%20Entrance%20to%20the%20United%20States

According to documents discovered in 2012, Anne’s father wrote numerous letters to U.S. officials pleading for permission to immigrate with his family. Most of these were written between April and December of 1941, in the months following the Nazi’s occupation of the Netherlands, where the Frank family had been exiled.

At the end of 1941, after the family’s pleas were ignored, the Franks would go into hiding for two years, until they were eventually discovered and sent to Auschwitz. In 1945, Anne and her sister Margot died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.

lostnfound

(16,184 posts)
7. Omg that's not a fact taught to our schoolchildren!!!
Wed Nov 18, 2015, 11:00 AM
Nov 2015

Wow. Many of the, read excerpts of Anne Frank as eighth graders -- I did, my son did -- and learn about the Holocaust. But they never mention this, nor talk about the question of policy on immigration of refugees.

The2ndWheel

(7,947 posts)
4. Were all those saying no just Republicans?
Wed Nov 18, 2015, 10:08 AM
Nov 2015

Wouldn't saying remember this when anyone says we shouldn't take in Syrian refugees make more sense?

The world isn't as simple as a picture with some words on the internet. If it were, everything would've been solved by now.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
6. There is nothing new under the sun. Same anti-immigrant hatred and posturing is alive today....
Wed Nov 18, 2015, 10:36 AM
Nov 2015

and will be defeated the same.

The posturing politicians who love hatespeech and their hatespeech-loving fans will again be sent to corner wearing duncecaps.

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