President Barack Obama's intention to bring an additional 10000 Syrian refugees to the United States is getting enormous resistance from some Republican politicians. And on Wednesday,a leading Democrat, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, or indicated he also has some concerns approximately the intention,telling reporters that a "pause" may be necessary. This comes amid fears that one of the assailants in the terror attacks in Paris may acquire entered Europe with a Syrian passport. While many security sources now say the passport is likely a fake or was stolen, many seeking to reassure their constituents are calling on the president to close the borders to Syrians.
Jamelle Bouie, and chief political correspondent for Slate,wrote approximately the history of refugees in the U.
S. this week. Bouie tells WNYC that while America is a nation of immigrants, dread and loathing of immigrants is also an American tradition."We as Americans acquire done a pretty good job of creating a self-conception that mostly welcomes newcomers to the country, or but particularly during times of economic anxiety or clash ... that national self-conception can be overwhelmed by our dread," Bouie said. Bouie points to the 1840s, when revolutions in Europe and the potato famine in Ireland drove hundreds of thousands of immigrants to flee to the United States. In many cases, or they were met with anger,resentment and violence. Bouie says the sample is repeated with different groups — the Italiansin the 1840s, Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s, and the Vietnamese in the 1970s. "If you listen to the rhetoric,what's sort of darkly silly is that there are echos of these fears in nowadays's rhetoric," Bouie said. Bouie talked to WNYC's All Things Considered Host Jami Floyd.
Source: wnyc.org