The dilemma faced by the world as hunger, poverty, wars, overpopulation and political misery abound is huge and relentlessly increasing https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-immigration-by-country. Historically, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have been the places where people could still find opportunity and 'o…
The dilemma faced by the world as hunger, poverty, wars, overpopulation and political misery abound is huge and relentlessly increasing https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-immigration-by-country. Historically, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have been the places where people could still find opportunity and 'open spaces' up till now.
Mr. Hartman and others are touching heartfelt strings with bringing up the idea of a proposed airlift of Ukrainian families to the US, along with, of course, more in place support. However, in order for this to work it would be fair to ask for a wave of volunteers to sign up to teach all our children in well funded schools. Many of the passionate supporters of our open borders are liberal males, and it would be really nice to see more male teachers in our schools - we are currently at about 20-25% https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/sept2019/building-gender-balanced-workforce-supporting-male-teachers.
An airlift would be a remarkable humanitarian action by America; Mr. Hartman is correct. But, as always, promises are often easy to make, but difficult to keep. We should, ethically and morally, be prepared to meet the social and educational costs and staffing implied.
Mr. Hartman's citations:
Now Russia is set on repeating the Holdomor. We can’t let them.
I began suggesting we should consider something like the Berlin Airlift for Ukraine several months ago on my radio program. It was kind of a throwaway comment, though, as I had not heard any serious discussion of anything like it from any persons in power or any scholars of the contemporary situation with Russia and Ukraine.
Then yesterday William Taylor (former US Ambassador to Ukraine) and David Kramer (former Assistant Secretary of State) published on op-ed in The Washington Post calling for the United States to lead western nations in rebooting the Berlin Airlift, this time for Ukraine.
“These actions,” they wrote, “intended to freeze a civilian population to death until they surrender, are the definition of a terrorist, genocidal regime: amoral, criminal, barbaric. … In addition to providing Ukraine with missile defense, anti-drone, and antiaircraft systems, the United States should organize and lead a major public and private, international humanitarian effort to help the Ukrainian people make it through the winter.
“We should send massive numbers of portable generators, fuel, repair parts for electricity generation and distribution nodes, blankets, winter clothes, camp stoves, plastic sheeting, building repair supplies, internet connection devices, other communication networks, and food. We should send these supplies by rail, road, sea and air.”
They’re right, and if President Biden has the courage President Truman did, he’ll take their advice. Leaving millions to starve and freeze to death is nothing less than complicity in the genocidal war crime Russia is currently committing.
The dilemma faced by the world as hunger, poverty, wars, overpopulation and political misery abound is huge and relentlessly increasing https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-immigration-by-country. Historically, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have been the places where people could still find opportunity and 'open spaces' up till now.
The global climate changes are now driving massive numbers of people in a tidal wave towards all the borders of the Western countries https://research.cornell.edu/news-features/migration-forced-climate-change. And in more and more cases neighborhoods, schools https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/25/6-facts-about-english-language-learners-in-u-s-public-schools/and urban areas in the developed countries are becoming places of strife and lower economic circumstances for everyone - and it no longer looks like a win-win solution.
America's past, and present, is replete with successfully adding millions of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/largest-immigrant-groups-over-time, however, with an increasing mass of illegal immigrants and young people who are not present legally the US is sitting on a political time bomb that may cause incalculable harm in years to come https://immigration.procon.org/us-undocumented-immigrant-population-estimates/.
Our well-meaning US federal education system is funding up to 12 years of English and academic support for all the children of our immigration wave https://ednote.ecs.org/how-states-allocate-funding-for-english-language-learners/ - and our schools are in desperate circumstances.
We are short 600,000 teachers and federal and state funding are keeping teacher salaries too low to attract enough qualified teachers https://www.weareteachers.com/teacher-shortage-statistics/. Thus, should legislators choose to support increased inflows of immigrants, asylum seekers or refugees, perhaps it would be timely first to look at whether we have the will to fund our schools adequately to serve both current students as well as the children we invite https://www.americanprogress.org/article/k-12-education-needs-federal-stimulus-funding/.
We are funding our immigrant children at 150% of our support for native-born children, and we have millions of native born children https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/10/census-tool-provides-access-to-child-poverty-rates-every-united-states-school-district.html that need the same level of support just to learn to read at grade level.
Mr. Hartman and others are touching heartfelt strings with bringing up the idea of a proposed airlift of Ukrainian families to the US, along with, of course, more in place support. However, in order for this to work it would be fair to ask for a wave of volunteers to sign up to teach all our children in well funded schools. Many of the passionate supporters of our open borders are liberal males, and it would be really nice to see more male teachers in our schools - we are currently at about 20-25% https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/sept2019/building-gender-balanced-workforce-supporting-male-teachers.
An airlift would be a remarkable humanitarian action by America; Mr. Hartman is correct. But, as always, promises are often easy to make, but difficult to keep. We should, ethically and morally, be prepared to meet the social and educational costs and staffing implied.
Mr. Hartman's citations:
Now Russia is set on repeating the Holdomor. We can’t let them.
I began suggesting we should consider something like the Berlin Airlift for Ukraine several months ago on my radio program. It was kind of a throwaway comment, though, as I had not heard any serious discussion of anything like it from any persons in power or any scholars of the contemporary situation with Russia and Ukraine.
Then yesterday William Taylor (former US Ambassador to Ukraine) and David Kramer (former Assistant Secretary of State) published on op-ed in The Washington Post calling for the United States to lead western nations in rebooting the Berlin Airlift, this time for Ukraine.
“These actions,” they wrote, “intended to freeze a civilian population to death until they surrender, are the definition of a terrorist, genocidal regime: amoral, criminal, barbaric. … In addition to providing Ukraine with missile defense, anti-drone, and antiaircraft systems, the United States should organize and lead a major public and private, international humanitarian effort to help the Ukrainian people make it through the winter.
“We should send massive numbers of portable generators, fuel, repair parts for electricity generation and distribution nodes, blankets, winter clothes, camp stoves, plastic sheeting, building repair supplies, internet connection devices, other communication networks, and food. We should send these supplies by rail, road, sea and air.”
They’re right, and if President Biden has the courage President Truman did, he’ll take their advice. Leaving millions to starve and freeze to death is nothing less than complicity in the genocidal war crime Russia is currently committing.