Happy Republican debate day!
With Donald Trump as the clear frontrunner and Marco Rubio as the “establishment favorite” of the Republican Party, it’s the perfect time for a Trumpocalypse Throwback Thursday to the time Republican Congressman Bob Dold attended the conference of a “leading anti-Muslim hate group.” Trump has said he would ban all Muslims from coming to America and Marco Rubio has said he would not only close down mosques but “any place” that Muslims gather or get “inspired.”
Disturbingly, Dold has refused to denounce Rubio’s comments, despite ruling out supporting Donald Trump for nearly identical hateful rhetoric.
Capitol Fax: Dold hit for signing NRCC contract, appearing with anti-immigrant blogger
Representatives Bob Dold (IL-10) and Peter Roskam (IL-6) joined a group of more than a dozen Members of Congress today at a conference featuring the founder of Refugee Resettlement Watch, a blog the Southern Poverty Law Center has determined is funded in part by groups with white-supremacy and hate group ties.
“The business of hate has no place in our legislative process, let alone even gaining an audience with Members of Congress,” Church World Service President and CEO, the Rev. John L. McCullough said. “I would have thought better of these men and women elected to leadership.”
As the world continues to wrestle with a panoply of humanitarian needs unfolding as Syrians flee violence, Church World Service has called on the U.S. government to break its silence and dormancy by opening the door to 200,000 refugees in the coming federal fiscal year, including at least 100,000 Syrians.
“The U.S. has been staggeringly silent in this crisis, and we must do much more,” CWS Immigration and Refugee Program Director, Erol Kekic said. “Our lawmakers on Capitol Hill should be giving time to crafting a U.S. plan, joining the rest of the world in a response. Instead, these members are giving valuable time to groups who would turn their backs on people in need because of fear and hate.”
Representatives Dold and Roskam were part of an invitation-only event with Ann Corcoran, the founder of the blog site that promotes anti-refugee and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Since 1946, Church World Service has supported refugees and others displaced from their homes, in addition to providing sustainable relief and development solutions to communities that wrestle with hunger and poverty.
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