Last week Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declaring that the Lone Star State would not be taking in any more refugees in 2020.
“At this time, the state and non-profit organizations have a responsibility to dedicate available resources to those who are already here, including refugees, migrants, and the homeless — indeed, all Texans,” the Governor wrote. “As a result, Texas cannot consent to initial refugee resettlement for FY2020.”
“This decision does not deny any refugee access to the United States,” Abbott points out. “Nor does it preclude a refugee from later coming to Texas after initially settling in another state.”
Naturally, the left-leaning media has ripped into Abbott for “going against America’s values”, or whatever emotional rhetoric they use to demonize a man speaking for his voters. Sadly, even the Dallas Morning News has condemned the governor, which is why I feel the record needs to be set straight in regards to how Texans really feel.
You see, I’m the type of Texan who gets irked when my great state gets misrepresented by the media, and this editorial from my hometown paper, The Dallas Morning News, definitely doesn’t speak for the people of my fair state.
Here’s what they write (with a bit of my own editorializing):
It was with some shock and not a little shame that we learned Texas is the first state in the nation to opt out of the federal refugee resettlement program.
(The only SHOCK was finding out Texas had been taking in so many refugees in the first place, and that this hadn’t been done years ago)
The news came Friday in a letter from Gov. Greg Abbott to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and it stated, in stark language, that Texas is not willing to extend itself “after accepting refugees all these years.”
This is a departure from an American spirit of helping refugees fleeing war and persecution, whether from Vietnam, Cuba, Africa or beyond.
This is not a question of seeking to enforce border laws, something this newspaper supports. This is about creating space for people with clear and approved asylum claims, and we are sorry that in his letter Abbott chose to conflate Texas’ border struggles with the decision to reject refugees.
Rest assured my fellow Americans, Governor Abbott is not “conflating” anything. Republicans aren’t stupid, in spite of how much the media portrays them to be. They see how the shifting demographics in other states have radically changed their politics, and Texas lawmakers have the balls to say “not up in here.”
Liberals want Texas to become the next Virginia. They want a huge influx of immigrants (legality doesn’t matter) to ultimately turn the state blue, and obliterate a Republican’s chances to ever win in the Electoral College.
They understand how these people tend to cluster, and that’s how we end up with people like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib in Congress. That’s just reality.
They’ll use rhetoric like “we need to take care of these people,” but do they ever ask “why?”
Why us? Why is it that people from the other side of the globe, with plenty of other “Western” countries between us, HAVE to come here? Why don’t these people who claim to “care” go over there and help these people in their countries?
That last one is a bit ridiculous, but you get my point. The left has some strange notion that the United States exists to hold refugees because… well, it’s in a poem on a statue, or something like that. Someone wrote “give me your tired”, slapped it on the Statue of Liberty, and now people are under the impression America HAS to take every last refugee, and we should all be thankful for the pleasure.
Then, they have the gall to mistakenly tell the story of Jesus, referring to him as a refugee while living in a land that was under Roman rule at the time, making him a CITIZEN. Of course, liberals misquoting scripture is pretty much on-brand. I’m just trying to help them out…
Governor Abbott speaks for a lot more Texans than the Dallas Morning News does when it comes to this issue. Fortunately, the governor is the one with the power.
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