Rand Paul: US needs to be careful accepting Syrian refugees

The main cohort consists of Syrian refugees, the largest refugee population on earth.

Cameron was widely criticized for saying on Wednesday that he did not think the answer was to take more and more refugees but to bring peace and stability to the Middle East, hours before the harrowing image emerged. “But in this respect, Syria needs the full support of the global community”.

Britain has accepted 216 Syrian refugees under a special government scheme over the past year and around 5,000 Syrians have been granted asylum since the conflict there broke out in 2011 – far fewer than countries like France, Germany and Sweden.

Mulcair accused the Conservatives and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander of simply tossing out the number of 10,000 refugees that Canada is committed to resettle. Southern countries like Greece and Italy want other countries to take them in.

“This is the worst refugee crisis, the most serious one since the Second World War”.

She added: “It is time for a national mission on this. We have a responsibility to act”.

Mr Ammon added: “Everybody knows how we feel about it and I think it’s nearly self evident”.

She said: “That has to start with the Government and its targets”.

“I was very distressed when I saw it myself this morning, of that poor boy lying dead on the beach”, he said. They’re professionals who have left their jobs and homes behind, and laborers whose neighborhoods and industries have collapsed in wars.

“David Cameron’s natural instinct is to walk by on the other side and that’s why he’s shaming the country”.

Mr Cameron spoke amid desperate scenes in Hungary where thousands of migrants have gathered at Budapest’s Keleti railway station in the hope of reaching Western Europe.

MP for Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi tweeted the image of the young refugee with a clear message.

Facebook guides refugees earlier than they even depart Syria, stated Muhammed Salih Ali, head of the Izmir-based mostly Association for Solidarity With Syrian Refugees.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was shocked by the ” awful” discovery in Austria.

“We have an open legal door now to half a billion people“, he told the BBC. It is the delicate sensibilities of established opinion that require diplomacy to be privileged as an unimpeachable virtue, and further require the United Nations to be understood as the sole means by which disasters of the Syrian kind are prevented, or at least resolved. “These are big challenges but we will meet them”.

The Government has faced pressure to take in more refugees.

The time has come for the EU’s citizens to draw a line in the sand.

On the streets of London, views on the issue varied.

“We should take people fleeing persecution and those plainly in fear for their lives. America’s got to be known as the country that can keep its word”, Christie said.

“But we must not become a magnet or pole of attraction for economic migrants“.

The PM instead insisted that the problem must be tackled at source. Of course intervention has not worked in Iraq or Libya. Mohammed, his spouse Batouol, their 10-month-old son Fahad and Mohammed’s brother and two sisters fled Syria and go to and discover work and asylum.

She also specifically asked Ukip leader Nigel Farage to join in the debate and help solve the crisis.

“Many that come are from Eritrea, Somalia, Nigeria, the Gambia or Senegal”.

The Conservatives have said their approach balances humanitarian assistance with a military effort against radicals rampaging through Syria.

“It makes you a person seeking a better life and it is hard to argue against that. We should be looking in the region of thousands rather than hundreds”. More than 3 million refugees have poured into Turkey and Lebanon, where refugee camps are becoming increasingly overcrowded and unlivable.