In 1998 Hurricane Mitch wallopped Honduras. We gave temporary protected status to thousands of Hondurans here illegally and put them on a path to citizenship.
We are STILL accepting refugees from Hurricane Mitch. It's never stopped. People are still coming here illegally and claiming that they arrived prior to 1998 and want TPS.
How can we, as a compassionate people, look at those who have suffered from a natural catastrophe and not be moved enough to adopt entire nations? How can we? We better START! There are tsunamis, earthquakes, storms, all the time. Right now the impetus is to murder off as many of our own children as is possible so that we can be a virtually childless nation and take in those of other countries.
It's times like this when Iran gets at least a modicum of respect for saying "We take care of our own" when they had their massive earthquake.
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