But we aren’t addressing our own poverty and overcoming it are we, and people are going to object to refugees they perceive being put ahead of the poor and downtrodden of this country. That maybe wrong but it is the reality, NIMBY is the acronym I believe. I’m not remotely arguing that’s right.
So there’s a million empty homes.. what do you propose, putting refugees in them, who pays for that. And why them ahead of our own homeless, it’s not gonna be voluntary housing supplied by private landlords without some reward is it.
It’s a very small cross sample but I haven’t heard one member of the public voice the opinion that we should allow refugees in if the topic has come up. And unfortunately the main reason is the problems we already have is the “excuse” they use.
Something clearly has to be done but I’d argue not open borders.