Nearly 500 turn out in Kalispell, Montana to hear
presentation about refugee program. Posted by Ann Corcoran on February 25, 2016
Wow! Incredible news!
Incredible turnout! Thanks to an attendee for sending the photo! We’ve been reporting recently about
plans underway to make Montana the 49th state that could see Syrian (mostly
Muslim) refugees resettled there through the UN/US State Department Refugee Admissions
Program. Click here for one recent post about a
demonstration by citizens of Big Sky Country to send a message to
Washington—thanks, but no thanks!
Here we learn
from the Daily Inter Lake how interested people of rural Montana
are in the issue. The presentation was put on by the Flathead Valley Act for America (like them on facebook!).
An estimated 460 people turned out Tuesday in
Kalispell to hear a Bozeman-based immigration speaker detail the reasons he
believes settlement of refugees in the United States is a drain on national
resources and potential threat to homeland security.
Paul Nachman said immigrants often don’t
assimilate and are a drain on state resources. He pointed out that the two
brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings were children of parents
who were granted asylum from war-torn Chechnya.
In making his
case that the vast majority of those granted asylum or refugee status are not
actually in danger, Nachman pointed out that one of the bombers and their
parents had traveled back to the area they had fled from in the years leading
up to the bombing.
Nachman said
the purpose of the United States is stated in the Preamble to the Constitution.
He focused on the part that says the people of the United States will “secure
the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
“So what the United States is about is
benefiting the citizens of the United States, not rescuing the rest of the
world from its distress,” Nachman said.
Nachman is a
volunteer in a physics group at Montana State University and has a doctorate in
astrophysics and astronomy. He has written online articles about immigration
issues.
His talk was hosted by the Flathead County
chapter of Act for America, a national group working to promote security and defeat
terrorism.
Caroline
Solomon, Flathead Valley Act for America chapter president, said Tuesday’s
event had been planned months in advance and was not scheduled because of
demonstrations in Missoula and Helena this month over possible resettlement of
Syrian refugees in Montana.
The protests
did seem to help heighten interest in the Kalispell event — it had to be moved
from Sykes’ Diner to a larger conference room at the Red Lion Hotel Kalispell.
Collapsible panels were removed to expand the room from the 275 seats
originally put out for guests. There is more, continue reading here.
For our
complete archive on Montana, go here. This post is also filed in our
‘Pockets of Resistance’ category, here.
Are you ready! Those
who want to colonize Montana with third-worlders have planned a “march against
hate” for March 1. Read all about it here.
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