Here’s an interesting conundrum. As Jews in Britishland are becoming increasingly (and justifiably) afraid of, well, being Jewish in Britishland, you have this mindset:
Truth is, I don’t know a single Jewish family in London who doesn’t speak openly and often about leaving. These are dyed in the wool Brits, who love this country. But they are watching the England they know disintegrate around them.
If ever there’s a group of people crying out for refugee status, therefore, it’s this lot.
Ordinarily, of course, there is always the option for them to move to Israel — and if ever there was a raison d’être for the state of Israel to continue to exist, this is surely it — but what about those who don’t want to move to some piece of desert in the Middle East? (In my opinion, not an unreasonable position.)
Well, for those who would prefer another option, how about right here in the U.S. of A. (you know, the huddled masses of people yearning to breathe free business)?
I mean, in the main these are wealthy and successful citizens, unlikely to require any welfare assistance and perfectly capable of buying their own health insurance, unlike some immigrant ethnic groups I could name.
Now granted, there are several downsides for us to throw out the welcome mat for this lot. For a start, they are mostly of the Lefty persuasion (like so many Jews are in this country, inexplicably), and we have to ask ourselves whether we want more of that kind of person coming here. (We don’t — well, I’m pretty sure that most conservative Americans, i.e. most of us, feel that way — and it has nothing to do with them being Jewish.)
We could overcome this issue, however, and make the change less jarring by resettling this bunch in a state where the government is more like the one they’d be leaving behind, e.g. Chicago’s northwest side (the “N. California Avenue axis“) where many Jews (Reform and Orthodox) already live, but with a stipulation of ten-year residence there before they can relocate to Florida.
If not Chicago, then I would suggest Detroit’s Boston-Edison area, with the same 10-year residency requirement. Okay, Boston-Ed is right next door to Dearbornistan, but unlike in Chicago, these new settlers would be able to buy guns to protect themselves. (If they don’t want to own those nasty gun things, they deserve everything that happens to them.) Detroit probably needs a chapter of Lox And Loaded, anyway. And given that, like Chicago, Detroit is a reliably-Democrat stronghold already, the appearance of a score or so thousand more Democrat voters there wouldn’t make much difference in the grand scheme of things.
Or if they refuse the offer, we could just say, “Enjoy that Middle Eastern desert thing, guys.”
