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| Flashback: Jerry Brown, Biden and other Dems refused to accept Vietnamese refugees |
| 2018-01-28 |
| h/t Instapundit [WorldTribune] Some liberal Democrats are fighting back tears when discussing President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Muslims from seven nations. But in 1975, leftist Dems went to great lengths to keep Vietnamese refugees (even orphans) out of the United States. Trump issued the order, the White House said, so that a better system to vet refugees coming from those nations can be put into place. The Democrat complaints in 1975 appeared to center on the fact that the refugees were escaping communism, an ideology, analysts say, liberals did not find that objectionable. Leading the effort to ban the Vietnamese refugees was California’s Gov. Jerry Brown. Other prominent Democrats calling for the ban were Delaware’s Sen. Joe Biden, former presidential "peace candidate" George McGovern, and New York Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 The boat people were refugees from Communism, ergo, they were bad people. Kind of like nowadays, where the only acceptable type of foreign bad guys in movies/TV are Eastern European. How dare those icky Slavic Untermenschen overthrow those wonderfully progressive regimes back in 89-91? |
| Posted by: charger 2018-01-28 13:06 |
| #4 As a friend of mine from that era once said, "When you were born in a cave you don't want to return to your roots." |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-01-28 12:16 |
| #3 So it was Kennedy and LBJ who got us into that war, LBJ who fucked it up beyond all recognition, Nixon the Republican who negotiated an end to it, Carter and the Democrats who reneged on promises to send arms to the South Vietnamese thereby leaving them defenseless and then Democrats who did not want to accept the refugees. I guess irresponsible would be one word for it. But if you look at those refugees, those boat people, and their children now you find fully assimilated, high achieving and productive American citizens. You cannot say the same for some of those other folks who have been joining us lately at the behest of Democrats. Kinda makes you wonder if Brown, Biden, Carter, et al. knew even then which way the Vietnamese refugees would tend to vote in our elections. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-01-28 10:59 |
| #2 The Dems are hypocrites about immigration. I can't believe it. This can't be true. They care about children (sarc). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-01-28 10:07 |
| #1 Leading the effort to ban the Vietnamese refugees was California’s Gov. Jerry Brown. Other prominent Democrats calling for the ban were Delaware’s Sen. Joe Biden, former presidential "peace candidate" George McGovern, and New York Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman They left out Jimmy Carter. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2018-01-28 09:50 |