Syrians are fleeing Assad bombs not Isis
According to the German-Syrian charity Adopt a Revolution who carried out the study, it is the first major survey amongst Syrian refugees in Germany. She accused the European Union for their selfishness, saying “if refugees made up 2.6% of Europe’s population, the refugee crisis would be over”. “We must balance a very real threat with the potential propaganda value here”. The Moscow office of the United Nations Refugee Agency warned him against doing any business in Russian Federation without documentation.
At Lifeline Syria, a grassroots group launched in Toronto this summer to resettle 1,000 Syrians, the number of groups offering to financially support resettled refugees has shot up from 50 to 300 over the last month.
A Jordanian government official told me that increased fighting in the Southern parts of Syria has prompted the kingdom to step up its scrutiny of incoming refugees.
President Barack Obama has directed his administration to admit at least 10,000 Syrians in the fiscal year that began this month. This convention stated that a country is obligated to take in refugees if they are subject to genocide or direct physical violence inflicted by the regime in power.
But that’s easier said than done. After receiving tens of thousands of people, however, the richest country in Europe reinstated border controls in order to slow down the influx of refugees and to press its European neighbors to share the burden. Numbers matter. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports that since 2011, 429,000 Syrians have applied for asylum in Europe. It can take up two years to approve an application, according to the State Department. UNHCR conducts rounds of interviews, first establishing identity and taking biometric data and later digging deeper into previous lives.
But not all solutions will come from Europe – and there is no legal or moral reason why they should. Yungk helped start the Iraqi program in 2007 and now focuses on Syrians. We’re seeing it now because it is in the media but this has been going on for four-and-a-half years.
Canada used to be renowned for our humanitarian admissions of refugees.
“There’s really not a way to game that system”, he said. And I was surprised (though I probably shouldn’t have been) that for many Syrians, the defining element of their identity is sectarian rather than national, and therefore they’re more concerned with the divides among Alawites, Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds than the divide between Arab and Jew.
“We have one life and one death”, he said.
Candidates move on to a security screening, and background checks lengthen the process.
Welcome to refugee land – the United States of America! These benefits are even greater when rich countries, especially those with declining populations, take in refugees.
‘Sending Fighters Into The Masses’. But it would not have happened without a public shaming of the kind that affects even the most powerful of political leaders.
Numerous refugees – particularly those from Iraq and Syria – are well-educated and are not among the most impoverished. Goodlatte was set to host a hearing on the crisis’ security impact on Wednesday, but it has been postponed.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the U.S.-led coalition has killed nearly 3000 people, including 162 civilians. The question is; what is the best, most effective way to help. Most of the evidence suggests that refugees, like economic migrants in general, work hard and contribute more in taxes than they consume in social services. As such, it makes sense for our government to place the considerable emphasis it has on helping those who have taken refuge in countries bordering Syria – particularly when money spent in this way goes much further than resettling people in distant lands.
Sen. Ben Cardin urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to boost funding for the agencies involved. And make no mistake, Islamic State and other enemies of the West are planning to exploit this chaos. There is no evidence of that happening yet, however, he acknowledged. I know that Aylan’s family’s tragedy is one devastating story among so many.
Sen. Ben Cardin called this week for more funding for processing refugee applications and Sen.
The women, interviewed by American video journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem, all live in a refugee camp in Syria, having left their home cities and villages during the four-year civil war.
Another man, said to be a former Assad soldier is pictured sitting with three rifles, a hand gun and grenades, and in another picture is photographed with a child on one of the migrant trains heading through Europe.
As she headed to a recent meeting with European ambassadors to discuss the refugee crisis, Sen.
Adopt a Revolution spokesman Elias Perabo said that the results show clearly that Syrians want to return – although the essential precondition was the removal of dictator Bashar al-Assad. “People think of resettlement as this golden door for everybody”, he said, “but for many people it’s a last resort”.