Internal Refugees is not just a good name for a punk band...

...it's a real thing. Increasingly, most of America looks like,  or is well on its way to looking like,  this:

Here in Portland, it's mostly all new and grand in our little Pacific Northwest prosperity zone. We don't have run-down buildings. We just have rundown homeless people everywhere.

Why here? Because:

a) many people can't afford to pay the rent, and once you hit the streets, it takes enormous lift to pull you off;

b) this being a prosperity zone, homelessness pays better than it does in, say, Baltimore or Detroit, so local homeless tend to stay while homeless from elsewhere tend to come here to enjoy the relatively good begging, and;

c) while it's wet around here, it doesn't get too cold nor too warm.

Homeless is as homeless does:

Homeless Portland 

"The Trump administration wants to cap the number of refugees admitted into the United States to the lowest number since the resettlement program was created in 1980. A State Department proposal released Thursday would put a cap on the number of refugees at 18,000 for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. Of those refugee admissions spots, 5,000 would be set aside for persecuted religious minorities — an attempt to bolster President Donald Trump’s heightened focus on global religious freedom — and 1,500 would be set aside for nationals of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, who are seeking asylum in the United States in far greater numbers."

There would be a wise, if cruel, logic to this in that refugees from where we create mayhem are likely to have a significantly higher proportion of souls angry at USA and willing to do mayhem within. And most refugees derive from our mayhem (including global warming, of which USA is the official avatar). Just sayin'. I ain't buying the logic, but that's cuz I'm a bleeding-heart liberal at the core.

But that logic doesn't apply to refugees from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, nations we have grievously scarred, nations known for producing criminal gangsters of exceptionally violent nature uncommonly adept at besting our oh-so-brave-and-brilliant constabulary as they play Home Soldiers in their used tanks and Operation Desert Storm (that was a recent war, wasn't it? or just a fashion tag?) bulletproof superhero costumes.

If one chooses to assume, however briefly, that there is method to this particular madness, then I suggest the rabid conspiracy notion that this is some kind of steroidal Operation Paperclip on krokodil.

But surely there's a positive logical rationale to this that someone can share with us?