Unlike immigrants, who choose to come here, refugees are brought in by the host country, which is then responsible for their relocation, resettlement and well-being. They can’t be deported. Immigrants can be.
The Muslim refugees happen to misuse this privilege the world over. I don’t know of any Vietnamese (or any other group) misusing this status, either.
Well, in my response to you, I was concerned with *words*.
When you post on this very thin and limited medium, nobody knows who you are or what’s in your heart - or even what’s in your mind. They can only figure your meaning by parsing your WORDS.
When we use words here, it’s important to know exactly what they mean and how they may be interpreted - if we want the meaning that we wish to express to be understood as fully as possible.
I’ve known ‘refugees’ from all over the world - East, Middle East, South America, Africa. They all have different stories; and as a designation of a PERSON, refugee doesn’t indicate to me any particular ethnic group or any set of privileges that such may enjoy. (When Hurricane Katrina hit, and the US news reporters referred to people escaping the devastation as ‘refugees’, some of the Black people I work with resented that the term was used. They didn’t really understand the meaning of it, either.)
And I’m sure we have some Muslim ‘refugees’ here who have NOT abused the ‘privileges, while others of other ethnicity certainly HAVE done so.