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Solved: Refugees Settled in Blue States
President Trump appears to be trying to wiggle out of a deal made by his much more humanitarian predecessor to accept 1,250 refugees from one of our staunchest allies: Australia. This is consistent with his anti-refugee policy, a policy which I agree with. However, I actually think this is an opportunity to simultaneously keep a promise to a loyal ally and test out a new experimental refugee policy. It’s simple: settle these 1,250 refugees (and a few thousand more) in blue states, where they will be loved and cared for.
Now that our liberal celebrity superiors are publishing much funnier PSA’s about how mean the new refugee policy is, it’s clear that their hunger for sanctimonious self-satisfaction can only be sated by hundreds, no thousands, of refugees. We would be cruel to deny them this satisfaction. So here’s the plan: we keep our promise to Australia and immediately grant these poor refugees and a few thousand more (let’s make it 10,000 total) asylum in blue states. Let’s start by building a refugee camp near Malibu and settling 1,000 refugees there. To ease the burden on the American taxpayer and give liberal millionaires ample opportunity to demonstrate their moral superiority, I propose a homestay program in which the refugees stay with the liberal millionaires, maybe in their pool house.
Those celebrities who have voiced particularly loud opposition to the refugee policy (yes, you, Susan Sarandon) should of course be given first preference for refugee homestay placement. Furthermore, the world must know how well this new program is working and how generous and wonderful the celebrity millionaires are for opening up their homes to these huddled masses. Therefore, the Department of Homeland Security will, on a weekly basis, release the names of all celebrity millionaires who agree to accept homestay refugees and publicly shame those who cruelly decline to accept them. DHS will monitor the new refugee camps and homestay program closely, including crime statistics and complaints from both celebrity millionaires and their new refugee guests.
A reasonable objection to this policy might be that cultural differences between third world (primarily Muslim) refugees and celebrity, California millionaires will create conflict. Pish posh! Surely, any cultural differences can be bridged by joint teach-ins. Celebrity liberals and refugees can learn about each other’s culture together. For example, in one lesson, refugees can learn that in southern California, women walking around in public wearing revealing clothing are just expressing their sexual liberty. Celebrity liberals, in turn, can learn that some Muslim men express their sexual liberty by sexually assaulting and robbing scantily clad women, who in the Muslim tradition are almost certainly prostitutes who deserve no mercy. Mutual understanding will no doubt result.
I propose that this blue state refugee re-settlement program be instituted nationwide. Rich liberals from West Palm Beach to Manhattan to Hyde Park to Aspen to Georgetown (yes, Democratic Senators, you can participate too!) should be allowed to show their magnanimity, or hypocrisy (as the case may be). This way, America’s best citizens can enjoy more culturally enriched lives; refugees will thrive; our allies will be happy; and those of us who are skeptical of third world refugees will be proven hopelessly racist and small-minded in our rape-free, little flyover hick towns. Everyone wins!
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I wish that it were possible to elevate this beyond even the exalted status of the Main Feed. I don’t suppose that the NY Times editorial page would consider it?
This is the moment when I wish the wizards of arithmetic would step up. Let’s put away all of our ideas, and let’s take out our rulers and calculators. The town has X jobs available, X classroom desks, X doctors, X police officers, and X housing units. When we are at capacity, we close the door. If we are careful with our budgets, we will have money left over to send to countries that are experiencing crises. Or we will build a new city or a new town here.
We can’t keep cramming more and more people into our existing housing stock.
I suppose not. The veneer of virtue must be protected at all costs.
I say send this to Trump immediately. Sounds like a great plan. Better than them sleeping on sewer grates for one night.
That video is hilarious, well, at least the first 90 seconds was. That’s all I could handle.
As for settling refugees in Malibu, that’s a little close to home. Have some mercy on the poor, lost souls like me who live
behind enemy linesdeep in the heart of lefty-land but can’t stand the progs. Just keep therefugeesrapists, murderers, and terrorists out, OK?As a resident of New York State, I suggest we start with 10 or 12 refugees each to the homes of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (he doesn’t live in the Governor’s Mansion), Mayor Bill DeBlasio, and Sen. Charles Schumer (his large apartment in Brooklyn).
I see a sitcom (or perhaps a reality show) here somewhere, perhaps produced by Judd Apatow and written by Rob Long. Big Hollywood star (Sarandon) opens up multimillion dollar estate to an extended family of refugees (exasperated parents, kids, grandma) and hijinks ensue (washing clothes in the Olympic pool, etc.).
The trophy wives and their hot daughters are gonna love their new guests.
Can I recommend the California 12th US District . Hell, take a couple of thousand males from Non-Christian Syria and let them loose on the population of Nancy’s backyard. Set them up for a couple of weeks and let entropy take its course.
OK Mea culpa. My parents taught me better. But I did grin a bit at the thought of the incredible plastic queen whining about some evil Republican plot.
Seriously, the whole pro-refugee movement is delusional. Liberals have to literally be assaulted by reality to change their minds.
In the spirit of Obama’s deal with Australia, perhaps we could take some of the Rotherham defendants off the Brit’s hands and settle them with our more enlightened Hollywood types. Close interaction with Meryl Streep will undoubtedly work miracles in rehabilitating them.
Hollywood is too close to Orange County. Send them to Northern California.
That is an issue I have with this stuff. There is always a lot of not in my back yard in this. The guys that make the decisions never have to live with their decisions or their consequences. If the boys and girls in DC want these camps then move the refugees to their DC neighborhoods. If the powers in California want to support these actions then to the same.
I think Obama’s now has four homes. There’s the one in Chicago, the house he’s renting in DC, and the homes in California and Hawaii. That’s a lot of square footage that he doubtless acquired to be used to house refugees. Put five in each and he’s made a big dent at resettling the clock boy wannabes who wanted to enrich Australian society.
Yes! Like the Beverly Hillbillies, only it would be the Bel-Arabs.
This works for me.
… to Georgetown (yes, Democratic Senators, you can participate too!)
You are hilarious. But I do think Trump should do it. Liberalism crashing into reality is so amusing.
I absolutely love your idea… But here comes the
But…
I live in Central Texas in a County next to sanctuary county of Travis County.
The problem with your idea is Illegals don’t stay put. The invasion of my county has caused me to move as far away from Travis County as I possibly could, short of buying a farm out there on the edge. I’m a City Boy so that’s not happening.
Every low-rent house, every low-rent apartment complex, is filled with Illegals. Go to any coin-operated laundry and you’ll find dozens. Stop by any 7-11 in the morning and all the “day-laborers” are there, waiting to take a job that should go to an American. It is bad – really bad.
So those folks you put there would just spread outward as fast as their feet and hitchhiking thumbs can get them out. It is hard for an Illegal to get a job in a stagnant economy, which is an alias for a Democrat-controlled State. So they’ll head to a State where jobs are plentiful, AKA a Republican-controlled State.
Vote with your feet, good buddy. You’re welcome in the big red wall.
The idea is to propose the policy and watch rich liberals either show their hypocrisy or shut their sanctimonious mouths.
We have a title!
This is an issue that commentators have noted through the recent presidential election – who bears the cost of large-scale refugee influx, or of immigration? To the stereotypical wealthy “liberal,” immigration means more maids and cooks and ethnic restaurants. But, those wealthy “liberals” live in places different from where the refugees and immigrants (and their cliques and gangs) would live, and will not be competing with them in the labor market.
Welcoming lots of refugees and immigrants may be the right policies, but too many of the people advocating for those policies are well insulated from the potential social costs of such policies.
Yep I live in Travis County.
Yes! It would be fun to watch their reaction to the mere proposal and get it all on tape. Oh the soundbites.
Send ’em to Chicago. They’re used to dodging in a war zone already. They’ll fit right in.
I’m open to starting this policy on a small scale, maybe just 100 refugees in a nice quiet liberal neighborhood. I would also add a voluntary affidavit of support option. Rich liberals can do what I and all other US citizen spouses who sponsor a spouse for permanent residency have done: sign an I-864. It basically says that if the intending immigrant has no money, the US citizen spouse has to support them.
The failure of a limited pilot program like this would serve as a political victory to Trump. If no one offers to help the refugees when given different options for doing so, then Spicer or whoever speaks for the administration can just refer to the undeniable proof of liberal hypocrisy that the program’s failure represents.
This is sheer genius!
Sadly, you’re two steps behind the Obama administration when it comes to strategic placement of refugees to score political points if Refugee Resettlement Watch is to be believed.
The Left has a head start on resettling them in the heartland. Bel Air? Not so much.
You’re exactly right, I used to live in Louisville, Kentucky and it was refugee city. We had Cubans, Somali’s, and tons of Bosnians. If anyone in blue states complains about the new refugee policy, we got the numbers to prove that we’ve born the brunt of it. It’s only fair for the blue states to take some of the burden.
Go for it! The entire Bluetopia as a safe zone…Travel permitted, but restricted to aforementioned zone, please/thanks.
I wonder whether there ever will be American refugees?