It
subsequently emerged that the victim, 39-year-old Grant Chisholm, a
member of the Bible Believers group, was hit with “something metallic”.
“They almost killed me tonight,” Chisholm told the Oregonian.
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Despite their outrage over President Donald Trump’s executive
order barring refugees from seven primarily Muslim countries, numerous
far-left Democrats once opposed admitting refugees fleeing the collapse
of South Vietnam.
While citizens of South Vietnam sought
refuge in the United States following their country’s defeat by
communist forces from North Vietnam, many liberal Democrats opposed efforts by Republican President Gerald Ford to admit them.
The
group of Democrats included then-Governor of California Jerry Brown
(who currently serves as the state’s governor), then-Delaware Senator
Joe Biden, former Presidential candidate and South Dakota Senator George
McGovern, and New York Representative Elizabeth Holtzman.
“As a rookie governor when Saigon fell in 1975 and the U.S. was
flying Vietnamese refugees to America, Brown was outspokenly opposed,” reported the Los Angeles Times in 2015.
In
particular, Brown said in 1975: “There is something a little strange
about saying, ‘Let’s bring in 500,000 more people’ when we can’t take
care of the 1 million [Californians] out of work.”
His
administration even attempted to block planes carrying Vietnamese
refugees from landing at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco.
Julia Taft, who directed Ford’s Task Force on Indochinese refugee resettlement, told author Larry Engelmann in his book, Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam, “The new governor of California, Jerry Brown, was very concerned about refugees settling in his state.”
“Our biggest problem came from California,” Taft said during an interview
with NPR in 2007.”They didn’t want any of these refugees, because they
had also unemployment. They had already a large number of foreign-born
people there.”
“They had – they said they had too many Hispanics, too many people on welfare, they didn’t want these people.”
In
his attempt to settle Vietnamese refugees, President Ford also met
resistance from many liberal Democratic members of Congress.
Liberal
New York Representative Elizabeth Holtzman opposed helping the
refugees, arguing “some of her constituents felt that the same
assistance and compassion was not being shown to the elderly, unemployed
and poor in this country.”
Delaware Senator (and, most recently,
Vice President of the United States) Joe Biden tried to stall passage
of the refugee bill in the Senate, complaining
that he needed more details about the refugee situation because the
Ford administration “had not informed Congress adequately about the
number of refugees.”
Pennsylvania Representative Joshua Eilberg,
the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and
International Law, accused President Ford of acting “with unnecessary
haste” in organizing the airlift of orphans from collapsing South
Vietnam.
South Dakota Senator George McGovern, who was decisively
defeated by Richard Nixon in the 1972 Presidential election, went so far
as to introduce a bill to assist refugees who wished to return to the
country, despite its occupation by North Vietnamese Communist forces,
suggesting most of the refugees “would be better off going back to their
own land.”
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President Trump took to Twitter Monday to defend his
temporary migrant ban from 7 countries known to host radical Islamic
terrorists who have stated their intention to use the refugee crisis to
gain entry to the US.
Trump noted that the problems with
the travel chaos at some airports are not because of fallout from the
ban, but rather due to a Delta computer outage:
Trump
added that Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has informed the
President that “all is going well with very few problems”
Trump rounded off the second tweet with the words “MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.”
The
President issued a third announcement declaring that there is “nothing
nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country.”
Trump stated that he was carrying out policies he had promised during his campaign and urged detractors to “Study the world!”
The
President also defended the fact that the 90 day ban was not announced
ahead of time, saying it would have provided advance warning to
terrorists.
Trump’s
aides have praised the restraining order, which bars the admission of
Syrian refugees and suspends travel to the United States from Syria,
Iraq, Iran and four other countries.
One official told reporters “It really is a massive success story in terms of implementation on every single level.”
During
a press briefing, the official who asked to remain anonymous, urged the
media to stop “false, misleading, inaccurate, hyperventilating”
coverage of the “fractional, marginal, minuscule percentage” of
travelers who were “set aside for further questioning”.
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Senator Chuck Schumer cried crocodile tears when he publicly
criticized the Trump administration’s travel ban, President Donald Trump
alleged Monday.
“I noticed Chuck Schumer yesterday with fake tears,” Trump said. “I’m
gonna ask him who is his acting coach. Cause I know him very well. I
don’t see him as a crier. If he is, he’s a different man. There’s about a
five percent chance that it was real, but I think they were fake
tears.”
At a Sunday press conference, the New York senator
surrounded himself with children and delivered a watery-eyed testimony
calling the travel ban “mean-spirited,” and “un-American.”
“It was implemented in a way that created chaos and confusion across the country,” he stated.
“This is one of the most backward and nasty executive orders that the president has issued.”
“Tears
are running down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty tonight as a grand
tradition of America, welcoming immigrants, that has existed since
America was founded, has been stomped upon,” Schumer said.
On
Friday, the Trump administration enacted a travel ban halting flights
from seven nations which the Obama administration had identified as
terror-prone countries.
THE BACKLASH AGAINST TRUMP FOR
HIS IMMIGRATION DIRECTIVES:
Sean Spicer Interview: Trump Won't
'Apologize For Putting Safety of This Country First'
Trump Copy’s Obama Muslim Ban, Media Flips
Why People are Protesting the Travel Ban
Feminists Chant Allahu Akbar, Call For Trump
to Open Borders; Converting to Islam
Acting attorney general tells DOJ not to defend
Pres. Trump's travel ban
Published on Jan 30, 2017
WASHINGTON IN SHOCK! TRUMP JUST FIRED
THE 1 PERSON
OBAMA DIDN’T WANT HIM TO
FOR BETRAYING AMERICA
Published on Jan 30, 2017
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| This is HUGE! Trump just fired the acting attorney General! In a
statement released by the White house moments ago regarding the
Appointment of Dana Boente as Acting Attorney General they declared,
“The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department
of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the
citizens of the United States. This order was approved as to form and
legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel.”
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