My comments: Another reason to never vote for this man for anything. He’s an idiot, a traitor, and a fool, but then most of the candidates running for president are the same.
REPOSTED FROM THEGUARDIAN.COM
The South Carolina senator and presidential hopeful urges for more support from the US, which has accepted only 1,500 Syrian refugees so far.
Republican presidential hopeful and US Senator Lindsey Graham addresses a Newsmaker Luncheon at the National Press Club on Tuesday in Washington, DC. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Ben Jacobs in Washington and Sabrina Siddiqui in Keene, New Hampshire
South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham became the first Republican presidential candidate to call on the United States to admit more Syrian refugees on Tuesday.
In a speech expressing his opposition to the proposed Iran deal, Graham urged the United States to take “its fair share of Syrian refugees”.
The South Carolina Republican said “we should take the Statue of Liberty and tear it down” if the United States continues its current, limited policies on admitting refugees from the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Graham also called on European nations to “up their game” in addressing the refugee crisis. In a pointed reference to the second world war, he said to Europeans: “It wasn’t that long ago you needed someone’s help.”
Graham joins Democrat Martin O’Malley as only the second of 22 presidential candidates to call for the United States to admit more refugees from Syria.
Marco Rubio, another Republican presidential contender, told reporters on Tuesday he is “open” to allowing more refugees into the United States – reiterating an answer he first provided in a radio interview on Monday.
“I don’t know what the right number is, but we want to be careful terrorists don’t take advantage … to infiltrate themselves among the very innocent people that would also be coming,” Rubio, a senator from Florida, said after a campaign event in Keene, New Hampshire.
He added that Europe would nonetheless face the brunt of the refugee crisis and said the US should lend support to its allies.
“We should be able to offer them them assistance, in creating some places and camps where people can live and be safe while this thing works itself out,” Rubio said.
The US has accepted only 1,500 Syrian refugees so far, and the White House said last week it did not anticipate any changes to its current policy.
Rubio’s comments followed a town hall in which he advocated for a foreign policy driven by “moral clarity” and denounced the Obama administration for overseeing a period of global chaos that contributed to the refugee crisis in Europe.
The senator first addressed the situation in an interview Sunday with the Boston Herald Radio and expressed particular concern for Syrian Christians who have been displaced by the ongoing civil war.
“They would prefer to stay in that region, so I think a better outcome here obviously is that we have to provide for their short term,” Rubio told the station. “But long term, we have to have a precise regional strategy that allows, especially the Christians to go back to their ancient cities, and their ancient populations centers, where they have been for almost 2,000 years, up until recent times.”
Graham also used passionate language to denounce those in the Republican party who have followed the lead of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in calling for mass deportation of all 11 million undocumented migrants in the United States. A vocal supporter of comprehensive immigration reform within the GOP, Graham used powerful, personal language Tuesday to express his discontent with the rightward tilt of his party on immigration.
The South Carolina Republican, who was left to raise his younger sister after his parents died, told attendees that “when they write the history of these times, Lindsey Graham, who is from the reddest of red states, can say the following: I refused to break up families for my political benefit because I know what it’s like to have your family destroyed.”
Graham said that it is important for the Republican party’s political future to attract Hispanic voters. Hispanic voters would be attracted to “the party of limited government, stronger military, faith-based values, but I’d have a hard time getting there if I believe you were going to deport my mother”, he said.
The three-term senator is currently receiving less than 1% of the vote in national polls and is struggling even in his home state of South Carolina.
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How come nobody pressures Mexico to take in Syrian refugees? All those vacancies left by the illegals who fled to the US need filling. Oh yeah, they’d probably cross into the US too, since the border is still not closed. Another question: why isn’t the UN doing something about the refugees? After all, UNWRA has been coddling millions of “refugees” in the Middle East who left Israel in 1948. That’s 67 years ago, so babies among the refugees would be in their late 60’s now. Indeed, many of those “refugees” are now dead and the millions remaining are their descendants. This is the first and only time the UN has supported refugees this long, but no Muslim state would accept these pawns.They’d rather force Israel to make a new state for them, which is preposterous. The original refugees in this group left Israel voluntarily to stay somewhere safe while the Arab attackers of Israel put an end to the Jewish dream of their own nation in their ancestral home. Once the Arabs lost, the refugees weren’t allowed back in. Instead, 800,000 Jews who were kicked out of the Arab countries were given refuge in Israel. That sounds like a reasonable trade-off: the Arab states who kicked out the Jews should have been “encouraged” to take in a like number of Arabs who left Israel. But no, the problem was left unsolved, underlying the current conflict between Israel and the Arabs. Instead of Jordan and Saudi Arabia taking in the homeless Muslims, it is the Jewish state that everyone thinks should solve the problem. But that might lead to stability in the Middle East, and we know no one, including the UN, wants that.
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So we have only imported 1500 Syrian refugees. How many other refugees have we imported — 2 million. Most of those from arab/muslime/islime countries who want to come here and harm us. We can’t import the Christians and if they aren’t Christians then they are pretty much terrorist. From what I read a large majority of those Syrian refugees are actually terrorist coming into Europe and eventually America to do us harm. A journalist was interviewing a man with a small child and he told this reporter that there were a lot of other nationalities but they were all claiming to be Syrian because Syrian’s were welcomed. With this mass migration we are doomed! Oh, and Mr. Graham what about the raft full of men, women and children that arrived on the Greek shore with ONLY young able bodied men on it? What happened to those elderly men, the women and the children? They will be washing up on some shore just like that little boy did. The only difference is the little boys death tugged at the heartstrings, the others are just casualities. As my former boss would say when raising money; “gotta get the babies, gotta get the babies, they raise the money.” May the Lord have mercy.
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The only ‘refugees’ we should be accepting are the Christians who are being persecuted and murdered by the subhuman muslims……
Seems like there’s a perfectly good desert (the Sahara, the name of which, I believe, translates to ‘desert’ in their native tongue) that has lots of elbow room for the muslim ‘refugees’ and their spawn to relocate to. Of course, I imagine they’re not just looking for a ‘refuge’, but rather an established nation and culture to destroy…..
I would also support a movement to relocate Sen. Graham over there, and appoint him Social Director to make them all feel welcome. He could take along a couple hundred democrats to assist him in his new position there.
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Sounds like a great idea to me…and he could take Hillary and Bernie with also….hahahahhaa
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I have an idea. Why don’t all those fun loving muzzie countries in the middle east take them in just like they have welcomed all those poor Palestinians?
Oh yea right. They haven’t let any PLO in have they. Wonder why?
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Exactly, they don’t want them, Jordan is right there and they don’t want them.
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