Obama refugee show at UN next week: Will it be
a bust? by Ann
Corcoran, 9/13/16
After wading
through the many paragraphs on what is expected to happen (not much) with the
United Nations Refugee shindig on the 19th in New York, we come to the important section about Obama’s
special propaganda show on the 20th. We expect him to use the gathering
to lecture and guilt-trip Americans into “welcoming” even more of the third
world to live in your neighborhoods.
I have to laugh
at one thing a few paragraphs into the article (below). Only countries willing to help are invited.
So this is what I want to know, if Ethiopia is on the list, does that mean they
plan to keep more of their people at home and not transport them to America as
refugees?
With hopes already dashed that anything
substantial will come out of the UN summit, some are looking to the Leaders’
Summit on Refugees that President Barack Obama will convene on the margins of
the General Assembly the following day to deliver more tangible outcomes.
But while there are relatively few unknowns associated with the UN
summit, the leaders’ gathering on Tuesday, 20 September is one big unknown.
The stated aims of the leaders’ summit are: to
double the number of refugees who are resettled or admitted through other legal
channels to third countries; to increase funding for humanitarian responses by 30
percent; and to increase the number of refugees in school and who are granted
the legal right to work by one million each.
Only states willing to make “new and
significant” commitments have been invited to attend. The list of attendees has not been
made public but it’s expected that between 30 and 35 countries will
participate, including the co-facilitators, which are Canada, Ethiopia,
Germany, Sweden, and Jordan. US State Department officials have also been
tight-lipped about what the new commitments will consist of.
“The indications we’ve had is that it’s been a
struggle to get commitments,” said Julien Schopp, director of humanitarian
action at Interaction, a US-based alliance of international NGOs [and
resettlement contractors I told you about here—ed] that has been leading the call for the
leaders’ summit to be more inclusive of civil society – a call that has largely
gone unanswered.
If countries do make substantial new pledges,
one major concern is: whose role will it be to ensure they are actually delivered
on, particularly given that the event is being hosted by an outgoing US
administration?
“We’ve seen it
in the past three years from the World Humanitarian Summit to the London
pledging conference on Syria – everyone arrives with something that looks good and
sounds good, but when you look at delivery six months later, there’s not much,”
said Schopp. Even if the leaders’ summit does deliver, Liebl points out that it’s a
“one-off event”.
If you are new
and don’t know who
Samantha Power is, check our archive here. See especially how she was
tired of advocating
for Christian Iraqis and wanted more excitement while in the White House. So
she, Hillary and Susan Rice thought that ousting Libya’s President General
Gaddafi might be fun, too bad the girls’ plan unleashed a migrant invasion on
Europe.
Comments
The best
solution for the refugees is to house them in camps in other Muslim countries
in or near their home countries. Is this hard?
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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