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Yeah... the US realllllly doesn't need anymore refugees to take care of. A bunch of new folks looking for work isn't in the best interest of Americans.
Unemployment 7.6%
welfare including food stamps 8%
This does not count disability or SSI
We simply can not afford more.
Doesn't the UN say, as the US is a signatory party, that refugees are supposed to go to the nearest safe country, and not go "asylum shopping"?
Overflow. The UN is having a special meeting.
We took in Iraqi refugees.
There's just too many these days to shuttle off to other countries close by.
There's wars in almost every ME country now.
From my OP link:
Jordan and Lebanon each have taken in about 500,000 refugees and Turkey has more than 375,000, according to the U.N. refugee agency. It predicts that the total number of refugees will double to 3.2 million by the end of the year.
How many millions upon millions of third world hordes are we going to allow in this country when we don't even have enough good jobs and resources for our own people and the social welfare system is taxed enough already.
Completely nuts. I could see if this was 17-1800's America with tons of resources and untapped fertile land but it's not. It's 2013, the health system and every other social welfare system is working at maximum capacity and we have a huge under and unemployment problem as seen by the LPR among other things. And all our government wants to do is give amnesty and asylum to 10's of millions of people who can't even speak the language so how in the world can they find employment and contribute. They'll just be a further strain on a weak economy.
Nuts.
It is nuts, I agree. We are becoming the flop house to the world at the expense of our own citizen's beings.
Thousands of children fleeing the horrors of wars and conflicts worldwide [now and in the past] were not needed here. Fleeing Starvation. Fleeing persecution, disease, hunger, misery...Are never needed.
We dont need any of them.
Yet you defend illegal alien Latinos every chance you get. What's up with that? Or are you being sarcastic?
Overflow. The UN is having a special meeting.
We took in Iraqi refugees.
There's just too many these days to shuttle off to other countries close by.
There's wars in almost every ME country now.
From my OP link:
Jordan and Lebanon each have taken in about 500,000 refugees and Turkey has more than 375,000, according to the U.N. refugee agency. It predicts that the total number of refugees will double to 3.2 million by the end of the year.
We really need to start implementing an exit visa program for refugees. I can bet you at least half of them will stay here beyond the time that the wars are over.
What worries me is you have 1.6 million displaced people looking for someone to blame. The sins of their corrupt government are soon forgotten. Many with little or no education. They fall prey to the radicals and now we are stuck with just say 1% of them who are twisted.
There is some concern though but the experts tell us not to worry..80% are wounded women and children.
Now the big question..do they get in front of the illegals waiting on amnesty or behind them ?
Rice and Powers are big advocates of the refugees and may have swaying power.
And why do we tell refugees that cars are not provided to them ?
Is there some kind of urban legend circulating in these countries that we give away cars ?
U.S. considers taking in Syrian refugees - latimes.com
A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian families.
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According to a State Department publication aimed at refugees, "Cars are not provided.... Most Americans value self-reliance and hard work. They expect newcomers to find jobs as soon as possible and to take care of themselves and their families."
Well, there is plenty of room in Texas, and the climate resembles the climate in ME.......
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