Why are we permanently resettling refugees who say
their real wish is to go HOME? by
Ann Corcoran 3/2/17
Is this Muslim family really in any
danger? “Syrian refugee Firas al Ahmad, 30, looks out of the window at his
father’s house in Irbid, Jordan, the day before he left for the United States.”
© UNHCR/Houssam Hariri
That is one of the key questions you
should all be asking the Trump Administration as they sort through the millions
of refugees to find those they will admit to America. (Trump says his
Admin. will admit a whopping 50,000 this year!) Nayla Rush, writing at the Center for
Immigration Studies asks, how is the UNHCR picking the “lucky few?”
98.6% of the Syrians
entering the US now are Muslims In the case of the Syrians, in FY15,
FY16, and 5 months in to FY17 we admitted a total of 19,826 Syrians to the US.
19,562 are Muslims, mostly Sunnis. That means that 98.6% were Syrian
Muslims (via Wrapsnet). Why so few Christians?
Here is Rush at CIS: The United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) recently shared on its website the story of a Syrian refugee
family who was resettled from Jordan to Dallas. The 30-year-old
mechanic, Firas al Ahmad, his wife Samira and their three children fled to
Jordan at the end of 2013 when the fighting intensified near their home. The
family struggled there for over three years due to the “lack of legal work
opportunities” and welcomed UNHCR’s offer to resettle in the United States.
Once their application approved, they sold their furniture and moved out from
their apartment to stay with Firas’ dad in the Jordanian city of Irbid.
The family is filmed there the day
before departure. Firas explained on camera: “I’m leaving because of my kids,
for their future. I hope they can get a good education, and have a better life
than the one we had … The hardest thing is leaving family members behind. All
of them but especially my father.” (Firas’s brothers, aunt, and father left
Syria with them.)
Samira too was emotional: “Syria is
everything. They say, a nation is like a mother. What’s our worth without our
mother?” She then burst in tears. Firas reiterated: “Syria is everything, it is
everything to me. The minute the war is over I will go back. Even now I wish it
would end today, before we leave, so that we could go home.”
In the text, UNHCR underlined the
following: “Resettlement programmes in the United States and other developed
countries are designed to offer a lifeline to the most vulnerable refugees,
including children at risk, survivors of torture and those with medical
needs.”(Emphasis added)
How does this apply to Al-Ahmad’s family? As far as we can tell they do
not seem to suffer from any specific vulnerability. By their own admission,
they fled Syria because the fighting was getting closer; and they accepted the
resettlement offer to give a better life to their children, not because they
could not stay in Jordan.
As a reminder, the refugee
resettlement program was set up to provide “resettlement to a third country in situations
where it is impossible for a person to go back home or remain in the host
country.” (Emphasis added.) Also, resettlement is one of UNHCR’s
“durable solutions” – resettled refugees in the U.S. are required by law to
apply for a green card (permanent residence) in the United States one year
after arrival. They can apply for U.S. citizenship five years from entry.
But does the Al-Ahmad
family want to stay in the U.S.? Do they wish to become American citizens, or
is their loyalty first and foremost to Syria? If their true will is to go back
home “the minute the war is over,” why resettle them in the U.S. to begin with?
Rush provides more cases, continue reading here. It is not about
humanitarianism! I can answer the question about why we are permanently placing Syrian
refugees (who would prefer to go home) in to your towns and cities—three
reasons (have sympathy for these Syrians being used as pawns!):
~The
resettlement contractors are paid by the head to drop off refugees who are
essentially paying clients and they want to keep their little federally-funded
fiefdoms going.
~The Libs
want reliable Democrat voters (especially in red states!).
~The
UNHCR is working day and night to erase borders and dilute Christian nations
with Muslim migrants.
I don’t think the Syrians are going
to make good meatpacking workers (cheap laborers), so I won’t list that as a
reason in this case (for Somalis, Burmese yes, for Syrians probably not).
If the Trump Administration is at all serious about reforming the UN/US
Refugee Admissions Program they would get the UN out of our immigration
decisions and stop funding the so-called ‘religious’ (politically
liberal) charities doing the resettling. Of
course, this story makes the argument for the Trump “safe zones” concept!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/why-are-we-permanently-resettling-refugees-who-say-their-real-wish-is-to-go-home/
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