Stasi: ‘Where Is Our Humanity?’ As America Shuns Refugees
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We have some nerve shunning refugees when our policies helped create them. Linda Stasi in the New York Daily News:
As cities and countries in the Middle East, Europe and even Canada are welcoming Syrian refugees — one of the most desperate swells of displaced people in decades— the United States is basing a presidential election on which candidate can build a bigger wall and make stricter laws to keep out as many foreigners as possible.
What happened to our humanity? The U.S. is, after all, a nation of immigrants. Not counting Native Americans, our ancestors — maybe even we ourselves — settled here not because we had it so great elsewhere, but because they (or we) didn’t. Because they (or we) had to get out.
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The U.S. and Israel, two countries whose populations were formed by immigrant settlers, haven’t been great either. The U.S. has accepted only 1,500 refugees as the White House waffles while Israel has refused to accept any, although both have contributed humanitarian and medical aid…
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
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