The United Nations High Commission for Refugees
(UNHCR) is responsible for the refugee mess. The US needs to quit the UN and
stop funding it, stop refugee access to US welfare and send all refugees back
to their home countries.
UNHCR meets in Switzerland: Gap widens between numbers of needy people and welcoming countries, by Ann Corcoran 6/26/18.
What else is new! I’ve been following this issue for over ten years and I have never seen the UNHCR report anything but doom and gloom—more people than ever (every year!) need to be resettled in a better country than the one they left. Nothing changes while the US taxpayer foots most of the bill!
And,
heck, we haven’t yet reached the “migrant apocalypse” stage yet.
I’m
putting this out in case any of you want to read what the UN has to say about
the “widening gap” in its latest report, this time for 2019.
Here
is a bit of their press
report: UNHCR Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2019 - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today warned of
a widening gap between the number of refugees in need of resettlement and the
places made available by governments around the world.
In
its Projected Global Resettlement Needs
2019 report tabled at its annual forum on the
subject in Geneva, UNHCR said the number of refugees who need a solution in
third countries had grown to a projected 1.4 million in 2019, while the number
of resettlement places globally had dropped to just 75,000 in 2017. On these
figures, it would take 18 years for the world’s most vulnerable refugees to be
resettled.
Increasing opportunities for refugees to move to third countries is a
key objective in the new comprehensive approach to refugee situations agreed to
by 193 UN Member States in the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants
in September 2016, and
a central plank of a new global compact on refugees to come before the UNGA by
the end of 2018. [That
September 2016 meeting was Obama’s doings.—ed]
When
they say “move to third countries,” that means the migrants have removed
themselves from where they say they were being persecuted and (presumably) have
filed for asylum in the country on the map below.
Share
responsibility for global displacement? Because they can’t govern themselves,
because they are always fighting among themselves for religious or tribal
reasons, it becomes our responsibility?
UNHCR
continues…“Resettlement
is not only a critical lifeline for some of the most vulnerable people on the
planet, it’s also a tangible way governments and communities can better share
responsibility for the global displacement crisis. We urgently need more countries to enter the ranks of
resettlement states and for those already on board to find ways to increase
their programs,” Grandi said.
Top 10
government donors *Donor USD 1/30/18
United
States of America $1,450,360,238
Germany
$476,918,668
European
Union $436,036,986
Japan
$152,359,773
United
Kingdom $136,219,370
Sweden
$111,958,945
Norway
$98,941,956
Canada
$81,879,293
Netherlands
$75,711,468
Denmark
$58,370,565
We give
more than the next seven countries combined!
Yikes! Nearly 1.5 billion big
ones! They couldn’t exist without us! And, we get bad-mouthed when we
slow the flow in to the US! http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/donors.html
We
don’t really need the UNHCR! We could choose to spend our money where and how
we wish to take care of those real refugees that we decide are the most
deserving.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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