The Compassion Compact: A Model of Governance


(Please read the prior post for context.)

https://opinionbytammy.blogspot.com/2026/10/prologue-senseless-sparrow-there-was.html

Was Sahra Noor ever really downtrodden or was she part of a powerful African clan?

https://nypost.com/2026/10/17/us-news/ilhan-omars-sister-skips-book-tour-event-following-raid-on-progressives-dc-home/

https://www.facebook.com/GardenPartyBooksMN/posts/author-sahra-noor-will-be-at-the-university-of-minnesota-rochester-on-thursday-o/1416151104060861/

Will the political construct of a powerful Somali war criminal unravel? 

https://ibloga.blogspot.com/2026/10/is-this-true_01563424986.html

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16216713/Federal-agents-dumpster-diving-Ilhan-Omar-DNA-sources-reveal.html

The Omar family is the trending story of the day.  But they are not the real story behind the headlines.  Because when a refugee steps foot on our sovereign soil, an American fledgling falls to the ground. 

America has 35 million who live below the federal poverty line.  I prefer to call it below the federal poverty rut, because the majority of these individuals have no means to improve their lives.

Fallen fledglings.  Not all of the fallen are at fault.

A 2018 study by FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) estimates the yearly cost to resettle one refugee is $15,900 dollars, or $80,000 the first five years.  Administrative costs and high usage of welfare programs like SNAP and MEDICAID are causative concerns.  In general, the neutral cost of the refugee is not achieved for at least a decade.  For a full decade, the citizen subsidizes or fully supports the refugee.

What about the refugee who arrives at age forty and only becomes self-sufficient at fifty?  How many years remain for this individual to contribute toward what was taken from the wallet of the taxpayer?

16.8 million Americans experience deep poverty.

What if?  What if the United States took one full decade to engage in a Compassion Compact with the U.S. citizens?  Care for the fledglings?  Focus on Americans who live in deep poverty? 

What if? What if we divested ourselves of the romanticization of the Refugee Resettlement narrative and considered it greater nobility to care for our own?  Create the new narrative:  Each nation.  Faithful steward of their own.  It may suck that you live in Somalia or Sudan.  Your nation does not care for you. They have not embraced a Compassion Compact with you. That is your concern.

The senseless do not understand that cruelty steps into the shadow of mercy every single day.

Let's say your neighbor - a rather lackluster young adult - pulls into his driveway with a new Subaru for his mother.   You smile at the man.  What a merciful son!  Five miles away, a man leaves his job and faces a unique cruelty.  His Subaru has disappeared off the parking lot.  One gained from that for which he did not work.  One suffered loss, through no fault of his own.  But it might have been the fault of his company to refuse to secure the perimeter of their footprint.

Our elected representatives flunked basic math.  They never learned order of operations, and to solve for what is in the brackets first.

(16.8 million American poor) - (arriving refugees) = x.

We need to solve for "X" for a decade; see if we can nudge the needle for Americans mired in deep poverty. 

Europe's projection of "nobility" has been crushed in recent months. 

Overwhelmed by their own leader's foolishness, the citizen fledglings now join forces with the refugee population to destroy a nation:

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16218361/Moment-French-rioters-attack-shopkeeper.html

Ceuta?  It should have tossed Spain off the cliff into the jaws of revolution weeks ago.

England?  Their nobility is reduced by accepting a new Muslim female member of Parliament who dressed for the occasion like she went dumpster diving for her hijab. Your Parliament now applauds Islam - that thing which is destroying your core values; Yeoman Warders joined by tribal wanderers. Let's see how noble ya'll feel in a decade.

But for America?  We are changing the narrative under President Donald J Trump. And may the moratorium on Refugee Resettlement continue for a decade.  The fledglings will be fed. Compassion for our own must prevail.

  



  


 




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