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On 2017-01-12 12:07 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-01-12 12:00 PM, wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:30:46 -0500, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>
>>>>>
>>>> I would like to see proof of that last statement, definitely not true
>>>> of either refugees or immigrants in NS. I wonder though why it
>>>> surprises me that you would say it.
>>>
>>> Are you serious? You know that refugee claimants are eligible for
>>> welfare and for health care. The guy lost all his fingers. He is going
>>> to have a hard time finding work. You know they won't turn him down now.
>>> What is so hard for you to understand about that?
>>
>> That does not constitute proof. You assume he doesn't want to work.
>
>
> I didn't say he had come here just to live off our welfare system. He
> and his friend entered Canada illegally across the prairies in winter
> and got lost and almost froze to death. He has lost all his fingers and
> a couple toes and he may yet lose his arms. That is going to make it
> difficult for him to find work.
>
>
>
>> He most likely does, he will maybe need some help to polish up his
>> speaking and be shown the ropes, but after that, most go on to work.
>
> What is he going to use to pull on those ropes? He now has no fingers,
> and he may not even have arms.
>
>
>>
>> They covered items recently about two of the refugee families who came
>> to NS from Syria - one in Antigonish is successfully operating a
>> chocolate making business but still needs translation by one of the
>> kids! Another one I can think of set herself up as an online
>> translator and is doing very well, not in the least concerned that all
>> help ends around now for most of them. Did you even know that even a
>> refugee only receives help for one year??? So much for languishing
>> for all their life on our welfare system.
>
>
> Great. Being refugees themselves, maybe the guy with the chocolate
> factory will offer a job to the one with no arms.
>
>>
>> It's so simple for people to parrot the common misconceptions about
>> refugees and immigrants.
>
> Who is parroting misconceptions. I specified someone who almost froze to
> death while sneaking across the border illegally. He is the author of
> his own misfortune. I also pointed out the surge in Mexican refugee
> claimants within the first month of the lifting of via requirements for
> Mexicans, the visa requirements that had been put in place because we
> were getting so many refugees claims from visiting Mexicans.
>
>
Just to clarify: those two illegals were NOT Mexican, but a pair of African
gays who faced persecution at home.