British PM arrives in Lebanon to meet officials

Many Americans have volunteered to take refugees into their homes, and donations to aid groups have soared.

While immigration is generally great for a country’s economy in the long run, taking in truly massive numbers of refugees can be quite taxing, especially for a small, poorer country such as Lebanon. “This is nothing new“, Christine Baer, congregational resource developer for Church World Service in Lancaster, said Friday.

Resettlement, however, would not provide a long-term solution to the Syrian crisis; the flood of refugees out of that region will likely only escalate as conflicts in Syria and Iraq continue. In the decades since, more nonprofit organizations – on local, national and global scales – have formed to help facilitate the process.

“This is one of the highest death tolls caused by rebel shelling on regime areas in the city”, said Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding that more than 150 people were injured by dozens of mortars and rockets.

“I have had enough and I want to go to sea to Europe like the people who sink. It always has been”.

The White House said last Thursday that it hopes to scale up the number of refugees the United States welcomes from war-torn Syria in the next fiscal year. “That underlines the importance of other countries supporting the refugee camps and supporting people who remain in Syria”.

The United States, Canada, and Europe could be doing so much more to help. To sit back while other nations shoulder the burden generates more anti-American sentiment that we can’t afford.

Aid agencies, speaking to reporters on a conference call, said an outpouring of public emotion after media photographs of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi lying drowned on a Syrian beach, had boosted their fundraising.

“There is layer upon layer of security and health screenings”, she said.

They added that the number of Syrian refugees accepted by the United States since the beginning of the conflict is “unacceptably” low.

Those who make it, Baer said, are “a drop in the bucket” compared to those who don’t.

“Until we have such a mechanism in place, we should not be bringing anybody in”, Carson said.

“While the United States is the largest donor of humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees, we must also dramatically increase the number of Syrian refugees that we accept for resettlement”. More than four years into the war, hundreds of thousands of families in Lebanon are living in flimsy plastic sheeting shelters like the one he sat and posed for photographs inside.

Fewer than 1 percent of the world’s refugees resettle in another country, she noted – often spending decades in refugee camps first.

Britain has also promised £100 million to help Syrian refugees in several countries, with up to 29 million pounds going to Lebanon.

President Obama on Wednesday pledged that the USA would cooperate with European nations struggling to handle an influx of refugees from Syria.

Oceans of distance have not kept the US from deep and troubling involvements in the politics of the Middle East. This is no time to look away and neglect a moral responsibility.