Politics Archive
Archives for November 2015
Alexander Hamilton or Aaron Burr? Hillary Clinton or Ross Perot? How do you choose?
It’s complicated.
The United States has offered refugee status to 1,869 Syrian immigrants in 2015. Of those refugees, 1,651 live in the states where governors currently say they will no longer allow Syrian refugees to enter.
It’s about weighing the good and bad of prohibition versus legalization.
The story starts in 1989, in Afghanistan.
In 1939, 900 Jews sailed across the Atlantic to escape from Hitler. America turned them away.
Bonus evil scientist metaphor thrown in for free.
Takei was one of 120,000 Japenese Americans interned because of how he looked.
The US has resettled fewer than 0.05 percent of all Syrian refugees.
As in, he says internment was a good thing.
Where do refugees in the US come from?
Here’s what the survey found.
For the nonprofit organizations in charge of helping refugees settle in the US, life is about to get a lot harder.
It’s not a quick process. At all.
Banks are now wary of dealing with remittance companies — and poor people are paying the price.