‘Welcome home,’ Syrian refugees told in Canada

Bringing Syrian refugees to the US has become an especially contentious issue.

The warm welcoming for the refugees stands in stark contrast next to the opinion of many governors in the USA who have been outspoken about banning refugees entry into the country.

Air Canada has also said it would cooperate with Ottawa to transport Syrian refugees to Canada.

By far the sponsors have raised funds close to 20, 400 dollars for each family, reports the New York Times.

By the end of the month, Youssef said another 19 of her relatives will have arrived in Canada as part of the federal government’s plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by February.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was at the airport to greet the families, saying “welcome home”.

The first Syrian refugee family to disembark at Toronto Pearson International Airport makes their way into the Canada Border Services Agency’s processing area on December 11, 2015.

The flight arrived just before midnight carrying the first of two large groups of Syrian refugees to arrive in the country by government aircraft.

That’s the message one little Canadian girl wanted to send to her new Syrian friends.

Canadians eager to show their support for the newcomers weren’t deterred by the fact that they couldn’t do so face to face.

“Canada has been so welcoming”.

That promise helped sweep him to power in October’s election.

The new Liberal government’s refugee policy has faced scrutiny in the wake of the 13 November attack in Paris that killed 130 people, which sparked fears in the U.S. and Canada that Islamic State militants would enter the country among new intakes of refugees. Even before the conflict, Canada has been opening its doors to asylum seekers. In the 1990s, Canada took in 5,000 people from Kosovo; in 1972, it flew 5,000 people from Uganda; 60,000 Vietnamese were airlifted in 1979-80.

He suggests dozens more planeloads of refugees will arrive in the next few weeks to meet the target.