The Left Just Found A Type Of Refugee They Actually Hate

Fifty-nine refugees. In terms of raw numbers, when you consider the scale of America’s refugee resettlement operation over the years, it’s a rounding error. Last year alone, according to the most conservative estimates available, something like 100,000 officially recognized refugees arrived in this country as part of an explicit, government-sanctioned resettlement program. Fifty-nine refugees isn’t even close to one half of one percent of that figure. It is an astronomically small number of people, in context. Under the Biden administration, four times that number of refugees entered the United States every single day, from places like Africa and Central America and the Middle East. Even if the media wanted to cover every batch of new arrivals, they simply couldn’t do it. They were arriving too quickly, and from too many countries. So instead, they’d just tell us that all refugees are good, and that must we accept them without any questions because a crappy poem on the Statue of Liberty says so. And of course, if you compare 59 to all of the unofficial refugees — all of the illegal immigrants who the media treats as refugees and “asylum seekers” — then 59 represents something like .00002 percent of the total. It’s not even a rounding error. It’s a microscopic number of people in comparison.

But just for the sake of argument, if you had to imagine a hypothetical scenario where 59 refugees somehow *did* get the media’s attention — and triggered a massive outrage cycle in the process — what do you think might be the reason? What would it take for CNN, MSNBC, and all the networks to lose their minds over 59 refugees who are resettled into this country by the federal government? What kind of heinous terrorist attack would those 59 people have to be plotting? What Chinese-developed bat virus would they have to be carrying? How many Kanye West lyrics would they have to sing on the plane, in order to make the national news media, for the first time in recorded history, demand that the plane full of refugees be turned around and sent back to where it came from?