Guest opinion: I made my calls! Posted by Ann Corcoran 9/21/16
Editor: From time
to time we post guest columns and other comments which we think are important
to highlight. And, as you know if you’ve been following RRW for the last few
weeks, we have been nagging you to call your members of Congress, Senators too,
and tell them to defund the Refugee Admissions Program in the on-going budget
battle.
This is from one of our readers, Merrill McCarthy, who did call and has
reported here (below) what she learned in the process.
Speaker Ryan
holds the future f your towns in his hands! He is the decider. He will decide
if the Babin initiative is placed into the Continuing Budget Resolution or not.
He will be responsible for the demographic make-up of your towns for
generations to come. Tell him politely, but firmly, what you think by going
here: http://www.speaker.gov/contact
It is not too late, both ACT for America and
NumbersUSA are urging calls to cut the funding for refugees from
terror-producing parts of the world.
One of our readers reminds us to NOT miss
letting Speaker Ryan’s office know what you think as well.
Here is what one
caller learned (and suggests):
I made my calls
today to Speaker Ryan and others in the House to encourage them to follow the lead of Babin and Brat.
I have been
making calls on various issues since the early days of the Tea Party
and today was different. With the exception of Speaker Ryan there was most
often a staffer on the other end of the line instead of voicemail or the
dreaded message the mailbox was full.
The staffers
seemed to be receptive and they listened. Nobody tried to hurry me off the
phone. At first I felt sad that having such an easy time getting through meant
there were not a lot of other people calling, but then the thought occurred to
me that they were actively taking the pulse of the callers. Most everyone would
agree that the attacks on our soil in the last couple of days are an ominous
sign of how quickly we are moving toward the new normal of European style
chaos.
I told the
staffers that we must halt refugees from areas that are hotbeds of terrorism or
from areas that are so disrupted that there is no way to vet their people. It
is irresponsible to open the door that allows even one terrorist to slip
through the cracks.
We also need
leadership to develop sound public policy on the refugee question. For too long
vested interests of the UN and the VOLAGs have been running the show. The time
has long since arrived to put our citizens first. That does not mean we abandon
the refugees. There is a solution that helps both US citizens and refugees by
working to establish safe zones so people are able to stay in their home
countries to ride out the storm.
This helps the
US by eliminating the burgeoning costs of a program spending money by the
billions to bring refugees here and provide them with all types of ancillary
services and accommodations, including ongoing welfare and entitlement
programs. And for what? Many seem to resist assimilation and more and more we
are seeing homegrown jihadis. Let’s stop importing and growing terrorists.
At the cost for
every refugee we help here, we could help 12 in the home country. Isn’t that a
far more compassionate approach? Is it not better policy to help people stay
and rebuild their own country, rather than leaving things so unstable that an
ongoing vacuum is created? It seems rather cruel to pull people out of their
culture, traditions, climate, and kinship and allow the UN to disperse them to
the four corners of the wind.
And we have a
responsibility to take care of our own first. We have veterans, the elderly,
the poor and the disabled. We hear of children in this country going to bed
hungry. These are the people we should be helping first. Instead we have
refugees squeezing our own people out of jobs and affordable housing and
draining taxpayer dollars with ongoing entitlements.
This is the
time for leadership and a new paradigm in refugee policy. More and more people
are waking up to the detrimental nature of what has been going on in the dark
for decades. Once examined, the only thing that makes sense is helping the
refugees in their own regions. It is better for them and it is better for the
US citizen.
Now is the time
to call Congress and stress there is an alternative to business as usual on the
refugee question. Let’s reframe the argument. Help 1 or help 12? It seems like
an easy argument to make. Keep calling! They are listening!
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