Amarillo area Our Town briefs for Aug. 7, 2022
Amarillo area Our Town briefs for Aug. 7, 2022
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Amarillo area Our Town briefs for Aug. 7, 2022
Has there been any outreach? >> i'm just another slug on the planet. >> you are a sitting member of congress of course zip think he did very little reaching out to anyone. certainly doesn't look like it's been drafted carefully. even just on the process of this very bad, tiff order. -- executive order. >> why did they have to put out a statement late last night to say, oh, yes, we will allow them to come back into their country. this is a country thank goodness based on law and both the spirit and the letter of the law says that we honor commitments and contracts that we've entered into with i...
Good to go, however i think word has gotten around so many people are perhaps canceling their flights altogether because they don't want to go all the way to the united states and be turned around. i have been in touch with people in iraq, for instance, who were turned around. keep in mind, when people have a refugee visa to the united states, for instance, they have sold everything, and they sold their homes and all of their possessions and they quit their jobs and now they are discovering that trip to the united states is not going to happen and they have to go back and try to reconstruct li...
The united states which so many people look to as a beacon of freedom has suddenly slammed shut its doors. i haven't had time yet to speak to any syrian refugees because i've been on the phone with iraqi friends who are extremely distressed about this decision. i spoke to one kurdish man who in fact was planning to go to the airport but was told by the airport authorities that because he and his family who have received a refugee visa that they cannot board their plane. they had go with their bags, go back to their homes and they are utterly shattered by this. other iraqis i've spoken to have ...
Security. the threat does not come from refugees. there have been more than 700,000 refugees brought in since 9/11. three have been arrested for terror related processes. they are not going to send them in on a refugee visa. >> do we know that? >> yeah, it takes -- >> look at the hijackers of the airplanes on september 11 terrorists. they were on student and tourist visas. 15 of them came from our country ally number two, saudi arabia. we need to question these policies. if we want our children for the next 15 years to live what paris lived in these days we need to continue repeating the same ...