RE: Refugee crisis
July 25, 2016 at 11:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2016 at 11:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We already absorb three and a half times the number of refugees that have been placed on our docket from Syria yearly. It's already funded with our tax money, and non-voluntary. What we've been asked to do isn't anything that we don't already do. Strangely, we balked at the notion.
At our current rate of intake...making Syria a priority would see us able to absorb those 100k refugees you've suggested (5 times the amount we've been tapped for, btw) over the course of a year and a half...but realistically it will take longer to process them (and we'd have to exclude all other seekers). So call it three years. We'll still have contributed only a tiny smidgeon to the overall take...and countries in far more vulnerable positions than ourselves, who offer refugees much more, will have absorbed more. For historical reference, we absorbed nearly 150k from the Balkan wars, in one year, without batting an eye. The whole situation is embarrassing, on a national level.
Just trying to give some context that seems to be missing from media discussion of the subject. It's treated like a big deal, when it's actually not. Can't imagine why...
At our current rate of intake...making Syria a priority would see us able to absorb those 100k refugees you've suggested (5 times the amount we've been tapped for, btw) over the course of a year and a half...but realistically it will take longer to process them (and we'd have to exclude all other seekers). So call it three years. We'll still have contributed only a tiny smidgeon to the overall take...and countries in far more vulnerable positions than ourselves, who offer refugees much more, will have absorbed more. For historical reference, we absorbed nearly 150k from the Balkan wars, in one year, without batting an eye. The whole situation is embarrassing, on a national level.
Just trying to give some context that seems to be missing from media discussion of the subject. It's treated like a big deal, when it's actually not. Can't imagine why...
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