09-01-2021, 01:56 PM
Wow. Great digging, deckeda!
Your Twitter link from Joaquin Castro also brings up the irony of the GOP’s response to their insistence that all Afghans that help us should be rescued from Afghanistan, and brought to…anywhere but their own districts/states.
But in fairness, they were only following the cues of their glorious orange leader:
…which is putting the GOP into a bit of a logical bind (not that that’s ever given them pause before). How do you criticize Biden for not evacuating enough Afghanis who helped the US, without actually accepting these brown Muslim folks needing financial assistance into your communities?
Your Twitter link from Joaquin Castro also brings up the irony of the GOP’s response to their insistence that all Afghans that help us should be rescued from Afghanistan, and brought to…anywhere but their own districts/states.
State and congressional GOP lawmakers visited Fort McCoy [in Wisconsin] last week, including U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, who said on WISN-TV’s ‘UpFront’ he believes the majority of those refugees will arrive “for the right reason,” but remains worried “if somebody slips through and commits an act of terror.”
But in fairness, they were only following the cues of their glorious orange leader:
Former President Donald Trump claimed that the Biden administration could be bringing terrorists from Afghanistan to the US by evacuating Afghan refugees.
“…we can only imagine how many thousands of terrorists have been airlifted out of Afghanistan and into neighborhoods around the world," Trump said on Tuesday.
…which is putting the GOP into a bit of a logical bind (not that that’s ever given them pause before). How do you criticize Biden for not evacuating enough Afghanis who helped the US, without actually accepting these brown Muslim folks needing financial assistance into your communities?