Who Pays? Where Does the Airfare Come From? UPDATE

[Old Grafton]

Right now there is much whining that the Pore an' Starvin' are being locked out of the US even though they had tickets to fly, are stranded in Nairobi, etc. You can't ride on top or bottom of a train to get here from there, a rusty Liberian fishing smack can't make it across the Atlantic and so on. So they have to fly, and not in Cessna 150's either. Even peasant class air tickets are damn costly, and I find it hard to believe that shiploads/boatloads/tens of thousands of refugees dumped by pirates all over the Mediterranean coastlines have enough scratch hidden from their smugglers to buy a ticket on an airliner. A few percent, maybe, but the vast numbers being tossed around? Who's funding this? Evil Soros? Charles Schumer? (Ha! HE wouldn't bail out his mother.....)

[Denis]

The Saudis...?

[Jered]

If they're worried because they can't afford an airfare to get home, they shouldn't be allowed to come here in the first place.

7A1. 275. We cancel your visa or you can't come for five years.

[Jericho941]

Most people who leave the country for business or vacation budget enough for the return trip, not necessarily having to fly back to that destination for a reason.

The problem with the travel ban wasn't just that it was "no Muslim refugees from x or y" but it also shut out US permanent residents, among others.

[Netpackrat]

They appear to have clarified that legal permanent residents are allowed back in.

[Old Grafton]

I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear--I understand that if greencard holders and legal residents have any brains they'll have round tickets, passports jajajaja... etc--I'm talking about the supposedly desperate-at-all-costs-stranded-in-Europe/Africa-I-gotta-get-to-'Merica-from-this-shithole-war-zone-etc.-where-we're-all-starving-so-we-can-vote-Hillary hundreds of thousands the libs all want here for Kumbaya. Who's paying for all that airfare?? Some Somali goatherder bringing in his four wives and eleven chilluns has enough dinars for sixteen economy-class tickets to the promised land? I call bullshit. These refugees aren't all stowing away in steerage on Carnival Cruise Liners to get here--Somebody is fronting this; who is it?

[skb12172]

Sometimes churches. That wasn't enough to turn me away from Jesus. It has turned me away from most organized religion.

[Jericho941]

Yeah, if the government itself isn't bringing them in, it's usually churches (and synagogues, and mosques) and NGOs.

[Vonz90]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/44 ... cale-small

Since we are only talking about impacting a few people, I am not sure I get the point of this (politically). I would rather use that political capital for something longer lasting with a wider scope of impact.

The refugee cutback is probably a better play both because it is easier to defend (not that it is inherently a better policy, it is just easier to defend politically) and it has a wider impact.

I am assuming there is going to be a second step here; "the extreme vetting" etc. It will be interesting to see where it goes.

[Vonz90]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/44 ... s-generals

Disturbing info.