Friday, February 26, 2016

Hundreds show up for Kalispell (MT) refugee talk

Hundreds show up for Kalispell refugee talk - Daily Inter Lake: Members
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.
...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.
...After the event, Solomon said that most people came out because they wanted to learn about the refugee resettlement issue and how to speak out against bringing people into the country without proper vetting.
“I think they are ready, in an intelligent and humane way, to express their feelings and what they are standing for,” Solomon said.
The Obama administration announced in September that it intends to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States..."

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