{"id":74154,"date":"2015-09-10T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T19:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74154"},"modified":"2023-09-10T03:45:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T11:45:31","slug":"haaretz-911-and-the-american-response-to-syrias-huddled-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74154","title":{"rendered":"Haaretz: 9\/11 and the American Response to Syria’s Huddled Masses\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Allison Kaplan Sommer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With post-9\/11 fear still fresh in their psyches, many Americans believe their \u2018golden door\u2019 must only be opened sparingly and selectively.<\/p>\n

Fourteen years after the traumatic events of September 11, somber memorial ceremonies will take place at what was once known as Ground Zero, now home to the new 1 World Trade Center building with the 9\/11 Memorial and Museum at its base. Not far away, so close that it is visible from the observation deck of the shining new skyscraper \u2013 stands the Statue of Liberty, housing the bronze tablet engraved with the famous Emma Lazarus poem \u201cThe New Colossus\u201d:
\n\u201cGive me your tired, your poor,
\nYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
\nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
\nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
\nI lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
\nOn September 11, 2015, these two neighboring American landmarks are the symbols of an agonizing conflict between the last century\u2019s ideals and this century\u2019s fears. It is what lays behind the United States\u2019 hesitation and lack of leadership in tackling the international humanitarian crisis involving the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Syria for the West.
\nWith post-9\/11 fear still fresh in their psyches, many Americans believe their \u201cgolden door\u201d must only be opened sparingly and selectively, even as they see their European allies showing an extraordinary degree of generosity, welcoming tens of thousands of men, women and children.
\nThe wariness isn\u2019t unexpected. Since 9\/11, one hasn\u2019t had to be a refugee or an illegal immigrant to have a hard time getting in and out of the United States. Anything from receiving entry visas as a foreign tourist, replacing a passport for citizens abroad, to bringing one\u2019s suitcase through airport security has become significantly more complicated and difficult. And it is the fact that above-board immigration is so problematic, bureaucratic, and often futile, that fuels the endless flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border.
\nIt\u2019s not completely new. Despite being a self-described melting pot and nation of immigrants, the U.S. has never been completely welcoming. Even in the heyday of immigration to the US, when Emma Lazarus\u2019s poem was placed on the statute, fears of the dangers of immigration existed. \u00a0There has always been a fear of immigrants threatening the safety of native-born Americans \u2013 bringing crime and disease from Ireland, Italy or the Eastern European shtetls in the earlier part of the 20th century and from Asia, Africa, and Latin America later in the century. Such sentiments still strike a chord, if Donald Trump\u2019s poll numbers mean anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The preservation of anything precious requires saying no. Is a woman bad for believing her “golden door” must only be opened sparingly and selectively? That seems to me like a sane policy. Opening up her “golden door” to any Syrian refugee who wants to enter would be suicide. <\/p>\n

Sweden: Woman Gang-Raped by Gypsies She Allowed in Her Home Out of Pity<\/a>
\nA woman in Ornskoldsvik pitied three Romanian beggars and decided to invite them to her home. But instead of showing gratitude, the Roma raped her.<\/p>\n

It was on Saturday that the woman came in contact with the three men at the Travel Center in \u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik. She invited them to her home so they could sleep, shower and eat there.<\/p>\n

In her home during the night the Roma decided to gang-rape their host, according to the police report. She had, according to the police made \u200b\u200bno sexual overtures.<\/p>\n

On Sunday the police arrested three men. They have been charged by the prosecutors and we have been interrogated. Forensic Detectives have been at the scene and conducted an investigation, says Mikael Ahrtzing on police V\u00e4sternorrland for Fria Tider.<\/p>\n

Police are quiet about the suspects, but according to the district court, the three Roma people in their 20s and residents of Romania. Just last week, the local newspaper published \u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik Allehanda published a major report on the Roma clan Begging at the Travel Centre in \u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik. The article interviewed one of the now arrested the men, who told about their situation.<\/p>\n

The men are suspected of aggravated rape.<\/p>\n

It is the circumstances of the rape that makes us see it as rough, says Mikael Ahrtzing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A majority of citizens of every country in the world “believe their ‘golden door’ must only be opened sparingly and selectively” just as people around the world are careful about who they invite into their homes. <\/p>\n

A poem, not even one by Emma Lazarus, does not constitute a sane immigration policy. Why would any country want the world’s refuse? That’s nonsense. <\/p>\n

There has never been a time (prior to the past 50 years) when America sought the world’s refuse to become immigrants. Until the 1960s, immigrants to the United States had to be whites of good character<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can’t have nice things if you allow anyone in any more than you can have a nice home if you invite anyone in. To preserve a nice home and to preserve a specific culture, you have to practice exclusion. Orthodox Judaism and Israel, for example, are very picky about who they allow in. Would Allison Kaplan Sommer want to house a bunch of Syrian refugees in her home? How would she like them on her block? How come she says nothing in this column about the moral imperative for Israel to take in Muslim refugees? Why would any other advanced nation want to admit people with an average IQ of 83<\/a>? If you want to know what Syrians will do to your country, look at Syria. They are going to replicate that disaster wherever they go. <\/p>\n

There’s no country in the world that has successfully integrated blacks and Muslims and gypsies<\/a>. Why would any country want to import that dysfunction?<\/p>\n

When you encourage illegal immigrants, you get more of them. <\/p>\n

A solid majority of Americans have not wanted more immigration for more than 150 years, but rarely has their will counted for much as against the elites determined to flood the country with cheap labor. <\/p>\n

Despite being a self-described melting pot and nation of immigrants, the U.S. has never been completely welcoming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No individual and no country in history has been completely welcoming. Has Israel been completely welcoming? Through its history until the 1960s, the United States of America saw itself as an explicitly white country<\/a>. It did not see itself as a “melting pot” of various races. <\/p>\n

There has always been a fear of immigrants threatening the safety of native-born Americans \u2013 bringing crime and disease from Ireland, Italy or the Eastern European shtetls in the earlier part of the 20th century and from Asia, Africa, and Latin America later in the century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These fears were based on the facts. WASPs are the best behaved citizens.<\/a> People from Africa and Latin America often reproduce the dysfunction and poverty of Africa and Latin America when they move to first world countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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