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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN reporter hammers Ted Cruz on Syrian crisis: Should your refugee dad have been kept out of US?
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/cnn-reporter-hammers-ted-cruz-on-syrian-crisis-should-your-refugee-dad-have-been-kept-out-of-us/CNN reporter hammered Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on his hysteria-stoking claims about Syrian refugees by repeatedly asking the Republican presidential candidate about his own father who sought political asylum in the United States.
Cruz boasted that President Barack Obama had attacked him personally from overseas by criticizing the senators call to limit immigrant settlement to Christians only, saying the terrorist attacks in Paris showed why the religious test was necessary.
What would have happened if your father, who was trying to get from Cuba to the United States, and the political leaders said, Nope, we dont think so, because who knows? Maybe you could be somebody who could, you know, commit crimes against Americans,' said CNNs Dana Bash.
Cruz said the situations werent at all comparable.
randys1
(16,286 posts)election
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)In addition to nutcase criminals like Rafael Cruz, less savory criminals and mental health patients can slip through as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)spanone
(135,874 posts)learn to share, teddy boy
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)'cause Cruz is a Christian and them thar Muslims ain't?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)More hypocrisy.
Vogon_Glory
(9,128 posts)Her questioning was far from the timidity and softball questioning we have all come to know and loathe from the American lame-stream corporate news media.
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Different how? Fidel Castro was far less cruel and vicious than ISIL.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)FTA:
"See, thats why its important to define what it is were fighting, Cruz said. If my father were part of a theocratic and political movement like radical Islamism that promotes murdering anyone who doesnt share your extreme faith or forcibly converting them, then it would have made perfect sense, Cruz said."
randome
(34,845 posts)C'mon, Cruz, think it over. (Not likely, is it?)
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PatSeg
(47,586 posts)were the "Muslims" of that time. The fear tactics have pretty much stayed the same, just the names have changed. You could take a republican political speech from the 50s or 60s and change a few words and it would sound like a speech that anyone of these clowns would give.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Is she new? Hasn't she read the memo about coddling repukes?
SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)Marthe48
(17,018 posts)Take this plane to Cuba and all that?
they were!!! I remember all those hijacking from the early 60s. I even worked with a man who was on one of the planes that was taken to Cuba.
Marthe48
(17,018 posts)I bet Cruz would like to forget!
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)it is so important for all people to learn history from a very young age. Fortunately for me, it was my favorite subject. Unfortunately, so many people I know are rather clueless.
We had an exchange student from Costa Rica in 1995. The American history teacher told her class that they always ran out of time, so he was going to start at the present and go backward in time, so the students would cover recent history first. Which the students wanted. A few years later, we hosted a boy from Spain, who also took American history. He pointed out that in his history class at home, the Spanish were the heroes. And this year, I am a liaison for another exchange student and her history class is going to go backward and the kids really like doing it that way.
I helped the student we hosted, and seeing American history 'against the flow' really made some major themes stand out. And learning that whoever writes the history books can influence the view was an eye-opener too
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)Because I was fascinated with history, I learned a lot on my own, but even then it was biased. Today young people have access to so much information, but sadly many are still embarrassingly ignorant. The missing element seems to be a love of learning. I think our educational system is really failing our kids.
Marthe48
(17,018 posts)There is so much paperwork, way less money, teaching to the tests. Maybe the reason that there seems to be less interest in learning is that people don't think it has value unless they pay for a degree. And the prospect of getting that degree is more challenging now than before. We just have to keep opening windows and hope that we spark interest.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)what it is like for teachers today, especially with "teaching to the tests". It must be so frustrating. When I was young, I was told that the most important thing education can provide is to teach one to think. That appears to be on the bottom of the priorities list these days. I'm so glad my children are grown, though I worry about my grandchildren.