Burmese refugees

You’ve probably heard of the boatload of Jewish refugees within sight of the lights of Miami, turned back.  Many of those refugees died in German concentration camps because the U.S. wouldn’t accept them.

Today refugees from Myanmar, also known as Burma, are being towed back out to sea by Thailand and Indonesia.

The refugees, including children, will die.  Surely the U.S. could take them in.  Look at refugees we have taken in the past who were a plus for the U.S.  Hungarians in ’56.  Cubans fleeing Castro.  Vietnamese in the 70s.  Hmong in the 70s.  Aside from the humanitarian aspect, we benefit from refugees.

Where are our Republican Presidential candidates who tout their Christian beliefs?  Where is our president?  The U.S., greatest nation in the world we are told again and again, can afford to take in a few thousand Burmese refugees who will otherwise die. 

We live in a cruel world that seems to have learned no lessons from the past.  Why don’t the anti-abortion fanatics in the U.S. worry about children who are already born?  Where is Sen. Toomey?  Where is Barletta?  I am so tired of this evil.