10,000 is a great start but we should take millions from the Middle East and Africa.
There is a lot of land in our country that is underutilized, most of it in red states, literally thousands of small communities that are dying because of declining population. HUD could resettle these refugees all across the country instantly changing the demographics and reversing the decline of rural areas in the south, Midwest and western states. In a few short years these backwards dying red states would turn blue. Schools, businesses, farms and mosques would sprout up all across what now is a barren land and turn what we call 'fly over country' into a modern multicultural 21st century society. Think of it as a sort of 21st century homesteading replacing the decaying 19th century white Christian culture with refugees from our American imperial misadventures. I see it as one way to right one of the fundamental wrongs of the American experiment, let's bring these people here and let them have a turn at the American dream, it's the right thing to do, it's the American thing to do. One of the main reasons I supported President Obama in 2008 was because he had big ideas, a far reaching vision of how to transform America and right the wrongs of our history. We have a chance to change America forever, I hope we as a country are brave enough and generous enough to take this chance.
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