As I've pointed out before, Shepard Smith is perhaps the only real journalist at Fox News. Two days ago Shepard Smith said that Donald Trump has no evidence to back up his claim that asylum seekers from Central America are accompanied by a mix of "criminals" and "unknown Middle Easterners." Put another way, Donald Trump's scare mongering on the topic is based on a lie.
For the record, the United States granted almost 85,000 people asylum in 2016, with the leading countries of national origin for refugees being the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria and Burma. Included in this number were about 20,000 who were granted asylum, with China, El Salvador and Guatemala the lead asylum nationalities.
Refugee seekers are usually those who are living outside of the U.S. and seeking official recognition because of "persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion."
People seeking asylum are either in the U.S. already, or have arrived at a point of entry into the U.S., and are suffering threats of persecution and violence.
In any event, it's interesting to see so many Christians in the United States turning their collective backs on refugees and asylum seekers who are seeking protection in the United States. The Bible I know is full of stories of persecution and violence against the poor and destitute, which our Christian nation seems to have forgotten about ...
Just saying.
- Mark
For the record, the United States granted almost 85,000 people asylum in 2016, with the leading countries of national origin for refugees being the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria and Burma. Included in this number were about 20,000 who were granted asylum, with China, El Salvador and Guatemala the lead asylum nationalities.
Refugee seekers are usually those who are living outside of the U.S. and seeking official recognition because of "persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion."
People seeking asylum are either in the U.S. already, or have arrived at a point of entry into the U.S., and are suffering threats of persecution and violence.
In any event, it's interesting to see so many Christians in the United States turning their collective backs on refugees and asylum seekers who are seeking protection in the United States. The Bible I know is full of stories of persecution and violence against the poor and destitute, which our Christian nation seems to have forgotten about ...
Just saying.
- Mark
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