I can't help thinking that the people who are so adamant against allowing the Syrian Refugees
into the United States would have been cheering on Roosevelt's order to intern the Japanese Americans during World War II. They would have been hanging signs in their businesses that said "No Irish need apply." They would have been the ones denying citizenship to immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe and all of Asia. They would have been the ones denying African Americans not only civil rights, but human rights. They would have been the ones saying that the only good Indian is a ... well you know the rest of that. I don't even want to type it.
For those who complain that we should take care of our own homeless (refugees of a failed economy) are right to the extent that we should have been doing that all along. If we stopped trying to make the world over in our own image, we would be able to afford to take care of our own and those refugees too, along with a lot of other things this country needs and wants.
It is sad that this country never seems to learn from experience. We just keep making the same horrible policies over and over with the same predictable consequences.
