Are they really that dense?
That they can't tell the difference between a perpetrator and a victim of violence ...
between the instigators of crime and the refugees from it?
According to the latest broad-brush generalizations coming from this Florida congress person, apparently they are ... that dense.
Immigration News 2014: Florida Republican Rep. Rich Nugent Says Unaccompanied Minors Are 'Gang Members' Raised in Murder, Rape Culture
by Scharon Harding, latinpost.com -- Jul 22, 2014
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"Listen, if you're 14, 15, 16, 17 years old and you're coming from a country that's gang-infested -- particularly with MS-13 types, that is the most aggressive of all the street gangs," he explained [Florida Republican Rep. Rich Nugent]. "When you have those types coming across the border, they're not children at that point. These kids have been brought up in a culture of thievery, a culture of murder, of rape, and now we are going to infuse them into the American culture. It's just ludicrous."
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David Koeller, who will be challenging Nugent as the Democratic Party representative, has expressed disgust at Nugent's comments.
"It sickens me that lives of these children are being defined by such hateful rhetoric by Rep. Nugent," Koller told FNL. "All Latino children are not gangsters as he broadly implicated. We should be addressing the situation [at the border] rather than using rhetoric to instill fear and create hate and dissension. I don't believe that is in the spirit of America. America is a very inclusive country."
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Better check your rhetoric Mr Koller -- "America
is used to be a very inclusive country."
It's gotten so insular in this country that much of the conservative hate-filled segment of the nation, don't even 'include' our duly elected black president, as being a 'legitimate' American (in their opinion).
Their views on inclusion have become that dense. To great shame to our once open 'doors, open arms' immigration policy. Especially for "Refugees" of political and social violence.
Some Republicans, those filled with slightly less Hate, realize they are exposing their flanks on this humanitarian crisis -- especially if they leave for their summer vacations, once again having DONE NOTHING about the gathering 'clouds of misery' ... still reaching America's once-hopeful borders, by the thousands.
So rather that let this crisis "bite them" this next political season -- they have decided to Do-Something about hot button situation, instead. (Or at least pretend they are doing something about it.)
House GOP seeks cover with slimmer border bill
by Deirdre Walsh and Dana Bash, CNN, cnn.com -- Jul 25, 2014
Washington (CNN) -- House Republicans are fashioning a scaled-down bill to address the southern border crisis that would provide less than $1 billion [Senate Democrats want $3.7 billion] and include an immigration policy change that most Democrats strongly oppose.
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The chief policy aim is to alter a 2008 law to make it easier to deport children coming to the United States from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Currently, they are permitted to stay in the country until they receive a hearing. That can take months or years.
Those who maintain they face threats of sexual abuse or violence would stay in United States and receive a hearing within seven days.
The Obama administration has indicated that it is open to making some tweaks to the law, but many congressional Democrats oppose changes and reject the GOP's move to attach that provision to the border money.
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Here's a dense question for these would-be {cough} Humanitarians?
How in the world are you going to provide 'Refugee Status' Hearings for tens of thousands of likely refugees [fleeing gang violence] -- when you routinely block judicial confirmations; when you routinely block the funding of America's most pressing problems (like VA modernization);
when you routinely 'nod and wink' at your own member's blatant racism and stupidity -- that would have us interchange the role of 'crime victims' and the role of 'criminal overlords' ... without so much as a wince of remorse, or a shred of basic human compassion?
Short answer: Their would-be short-cut solutions won't work; as per usual.