pbrower2a
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« on: January 24, 2017, 10:56:05 PM » |
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Political refugees usually leave for the right reasons, and if they can't return they start acting like good citizens.
Does anyone have any problems with the various waves of Jewish refugees to America (even in colonial times) from those fleeing the Inquisition to those fleeing Nazism and Communism? Mexicans escaping the dangerous Mexican Revolution? People simply choosing our side of the Iron Curtain?
If they don't leave, their American-born children have every cause to assimilate economically, if not by religion or culture. But being different isn't a crime in America (at least until this year); such may be a source of legitimate achievement.
Question: will America generate something that it has practically never pushed upon the world: political, ethnic, or religious refugees?
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