Oregon Governor Kate Brown WELCOMES Refugees In Passionate Facebook Post

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Oregon Governor Kate Brown WELCOMES Refugees In Passionate Facebook Post
Author: Sarah November 18, 2015 6:15 am

All across the nation, governors of many states, both blue and red, are deciding that they don’t want to welcome in any Syrian refugees. They are shutting their doors to men, women and children escaping a war-torn nation that has been riddled with extremism and ISIS.

As American University law professor Stephen I. Vladeck stated:

“Legally, states have no authority to do anything because the question of who should be allowed in this country is one that the Constitution commits to the federal government.”....................


On Facebook, Brown wrote:

‘The words on the Statue of Liberty apply in Oregon just as they do in every other state. Clearly, Oregon will continue to accept refugees – they bring their hopes and dreams to America, and we will continue to welcome them and open the doors of opportunity.”

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1. Thanks, Kate. Refugee Blues by W.H. Auden and a rebuttal...

Refugee Blues by W H Auden (1939)

Say this city has ten million souls,
Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:
Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us.

Once we had a country and we thought it fair,
Look in the atlas and you'll find it there:
We cannot go there now, my dear, we cannot go there now.

In the village churchyard there grows an old yew,
Every spring it blossoms anew;
Old passports can't do that, my dear, old passports can't do that.

The consul banged the table and said:
'If you've got no passport, you're officially dead';
But we are still alive, my dear, but we are still alive.

Went to a committee; they offered me a chair;
Asked me politely to return next year:
But where shall we go today, my dear, but where shall we go today?

Came to a public meeting; the speaker got up and said:
'If we let them in, they will steal our daily bread';
He was talking of you and me, my dear, he was talking of you and me.

Thought I heard the thunder rumbling in the sky;
It was Hitler over Europe, saying: 'They must die';
We were in his mind, my dear, we were in his mind.

Saw a poodle in a jacket fastened with a pin,
Saw a door opened and a cat let in:
But they weren't German Jews, my dear, but they weren't German Jews.

Went down the harbour and stood upon the quay,
Saw the fish swimming as if they were free:
Only ten feet away, my dear, only ten feet away.

Walked through a wood, saw the birds in the trees;
They had no politicians and sang at their ease:
They weren't the human race, my dear, they weren't the human race.

Dreamed I saw a building with a thousand floors,
A thousand windows and a thousand doors;
Not one of them was ours, my dear, not one of them was ours.

Stood on a great plain in the falling snow;
Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro:
Looking for you and me, my dear, looking for you and me.

And the final three verses of his September 1, 1939:

All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

[Waiting For Everyman]

2. She does know, I hope, that the words on the Statue of Liberty

are a POEM, not the Constitution? Because some people seem to not be clear on that, given some statements about it I've seen lately.