Is any western state, including US talking about stopping immigration of Russians and banning

[Samrob]

Russians from entering their country? Have we talked about inviting Russians in the US to go back where they came from?
Have any states and localities taken a hard look at the Russian enclaves that have sprung up within their borders in the past 30 years?

[BGBD]

1. I know three native Russians

living in the US. They all hate Putin.

[elleng]

2. No.

[Samrob]

3. I new several Iranian families living here. They hated their leaders too but that didn't stop us

banning them or at least threatening to.

[herding cats]

8. I knew several (still do) Persian families who were terrified people might link them...

As being Iranian. I hate to see thoughts like this one expressed. My next door neighbors as a child escaped Afghanistan, on foot, and immigrated here in the 80's. They were the subjects of threats after 911. They'd lived here since I was a child and escaped while Russia was occupying their former home decades before.

This type of thinking has never makes sense to me.

[Celerity]

4. Yes, by all means, let's revisit Japanese internment camps-adjacent mentalities. Nothing says

American 'best in class' morality like collective retaliation against a group of people simply due to origin.

This board sometimes.

[elleng]

7. Thanks

[crickets]

11. Another thank you. nt

[onecaliberal]

5. Uhm, no! 🤦🏼‍♀️

[JI7]

6. Russian people don't want war including the people actually in Russia. Russian people are good and

mostly oppose Putin. THey were some of the ones most opposed to Trump because they should see what was happening .

[Ocelot II]

9. I should hope we are not like that. The idea stinks of what happened

to Japanese-Americans during WWII.

[AlexSFCA]

10. what would the purpose of it? Xenophobia?

Russians who immigrated to the west did so not out of love for Russia or Putin, it’s the opposite. Many have jewish heritage by the way. By far, the most stupid idea I’ve heard on DU today. I bet putin would love for all russians around the world to be “sent” back.

[Celerity]

20. No, not sarcastic, they said the same things in another thread

They said to seize all Russian property, as in all of it, not just that of oligarch Putin-backers) and that the US should deport any pregnant Russian woman back to Russia.

[qazplm135]

12. I would not tell anyone to leave

I would temporarily stop all Russian immigration, business, and travel yes.

[Thunderbeast]

13. STOP!

That's just wrong. Most Russians who came the the US were escaping the tryanny of Putin and his predecessors. My own grandparents escaped Czarist Russia (Belarus) in 1903.

They are among the hardest working citizens amongst us. My financial advisor is a young woman who escaped Kyiv as a child.

[herding cats]

15. Well said.

My thanks. ❤️

[brer cat]

16. +1

Sometimes I can't believe what is posted on this board.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

[Sunsky]

18. Wow. Nt

[MaryMagdaline]

19. Let them drain their population further

Not a brilliant idea to start WWIII when your population is shrinking. The educated ones will flee to the West. More and more of a brain drain.