Kulturkampf

[benji]

Imagine believing that diasporas that date back many many decades (Iranians to 1979 at latest, Cubans to 1959, Lebanese likely in the 1980's, the Italians before WWII) had easy means of exporting their wealth as they fled their countries to take low level immigrant labor positions. The Lebanese are about the only ones who could have theoretically participated in modern digital banking, but you'd have to learn about the status of things in Lebanon before you could say if they actually had access. These dudes are so ignorant they have no clue that even in mostly peaceful non-refugee situations there are whole large nations in the Americas where mass access to modern banking didn't happen until this century. That's why the historical narrative of such people is coming to the states with nothing but the shirt on their back because in most cases that was true. (Their currency would have been useless so there was no reason to bring it.)

They have to condemn these people because they can't handle the cognitive dissonance of supporting authoritarian regimes. They'd rather attack those who flee them than stop supporting authoritarian regimes.