Following the Paris attacks of last week that killed 132 people, 25 Republican governors have voted to ban Syrian refugees from claiming asylum in the US.
This is because, as Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told Fox: ‘It makes no sense whatsoever for us to be bringing in refugees who our intelligence cannot determine if they are terrorists here to kill us or not.’
He said: ‘Those who are fleeing persecution should be resettled in the Middle East in majority Muslim countries.’
Just a little info about Ted Cruz: he was born in Calgary, Canada, to Cuban refugee parents. And a little info about terrorism – more than 86% of the people killed by Islamist extremists are Muslims!
Anyway, along with President Obama slamming the GOP’s efforts to be as hostile as possible to people fleeing war and turmoil, other people are chipping in with attempts to derail the dreadful nimbyism of the far right.
Some people have dug up footage of Ted Cruz saying, less than a year ago, that he would accept Syrian refugees. The idea is to show just how flippant he is in his convictions. Others? Well, the Daily Caller did a list of ‘Syria-sly’ Syrian refugee women ‘we’d take immediately’.
Yep, the headline was ’13 Syrian Refugees We’d Take Immediately’ and included photos of – undoubtedly beautiful – Syrian women taken from an Instagram account.
The account has now been closed but the Daily Caller’s piece remains. Because nothing says ‘refugees welcome’ better than the implication of a country full of boners waiting to enjoy cherry-picked hotties, right?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.