Syrian Refugees

If it is a similar situation to the illegal aliens from Mexico, then I'm guessing the state will have to foot the bill and not the feds.

Why don't we just give $1b to Jordan and have them absorb the refugees....seems cheaper and more humane.

Maybe we should have denied refuge to The parents of Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz because cuban refugees are obiously in cahoots with Fidel Castro.

Im glad our country made thoughtful policy then....by people who weren't fear mongering bigots like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz today

I don't remember Cuba threating to kill innocent Americans on the street at that time, nor downing passenger airlines, nor shooting up concert theaters with heavy metal bands at that time.....were there even heavy metal bands then?

Accepting refugees is America is a good thing as long as we are doing our "fair share" and we properly vet these refugees so they are not a threat to American citizens.

I find it odd that 72% of the refugees entering the EU are men......maybe this is the new liberal "war on women":

Liberal War on Women

Are the women not in danger in their homeland? Or are women's lives not a "worthwhile" as men? Or have all the women been killed? Or is it just the men are better fighters to send over?

Inquiring minds ask questions like this.......the gullible folks don't care.

Your memory sucks.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was Castro's attempt to point long range missiles at US targets and it almost started a nuclear war. But other than that - no civilians were threatened.

And in the midst of that our country accepted refugees from Cuba - like the parents of the two aforementioned Senators who are too stupid to learn from their own family's experiences. And lets be honest, Jphelan, you won't affiliate either one of those Senators with the ideology of Fidel Castro like you affiliate Syrian refugees with ISIS. You should ask yourself why that is. You might learn something about yourself. Have a great day!

PJ, you're changing the subject again?

PJ is arguing that Catholic Cubans are the same as Muslims? How funny.

You, Marco, and Teddy can slap your knee and make Muslim jokes on Hillary's inauguration day. Promise to send me that photo.

The memory of Wikipedia is better.....Marco Rubio's family came to America in 1956 and the Ted Cruz family came in 1957 --- not exactly during the middle of the Cuban missile crisis which occurred around in October 962. Can YOU provide proof the USA accepted Cuba refugees during the crisis or is it possible President Kennedy though it prudent to take a "pause" with the inflow of refugees from Cuba? Did they let those refugees get around the naval blockade? The would be the "humanitarian" thing to do.

Rubio
Cruz

Keep rewriting history - rather than learning from it. That's what our President does and it shows your motives and / or your stupidity.

I like Wiki too! You said something about JFK halting the Cuban refugees? And you accuse me of rewriting history? You can add thjs to the long list of things you need to correct yourself on - along with your bogus claims about the Clinton Foundation finances.

And, like I said, you don't affiliate Cuban refugees with Fidel Castro, Jphelan. Have you asked yourself why that is yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_exile

"The first wave occurred after the Cuban revolution of 1959 led by Fidel Castro. A lot of the refugees came with the idea that the new government would not last long, and their stay in the US was temporary. Homes, cars, and other properties in Cuba were left with family, friends, and relatives, who would take care of them until the Castro regime would fall, however, this was promptly stopped by the Castro government, with the forced confiscation of all properties belonging to anyone leaving the country.

Between November 1960 and October 1962, over 14,000 children, mostly Catholic although some were Jewish or Protestant, ages 6 to 17 were sent to the U.S. by their parents in Operation Peter Pan. These children were taken out under the care of the Catholic Church and placed in foster homes throughout the U.S until they could be reunited with their parents. Their parents sent them into the U.S in order to keep them from the alleged communist indoctrination and forced induction of boys into the Cuban armed forces and girls into the Alphabetization Campaign.

The second wave began in 1961 amid the nationalization of educational institutions, hospitals, private land, and industrial facilities. Additionally, the Castro government began a political crackdown on the opposition either incarcerating opponents or perceived opponents or executing the same. At this point, after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Castro had gone from a self-proclaimed non-communist freedom fighter to a self-proclaimed Marxist–Leninist.

There was a smaller wave of refugees in 1965 from the Cuban port of Camarioca. Cuban exiles from Miami brought friends and relatives to Key West by using small leisure boats. No detailed history has ever been written on the Camarioca boatlift and no exact list of refugees is known to exist.

From December 1965 to early 1973, under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, the twice daily "Freedom Flights" (Vuelos de la Libertad) from Varadero Beach to Miami were the only way to escape out of Cuba. It became the longest airlift ever to take political refugees and transported 265,297 Cubans to the United States with the help of religious and volunteer agencies. Flights were limited to immediate relatives, with a waiting period anywhere from one to two years.[3]
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