Posted on 03/10/2022 4:58:50 PM PST by Ennis85
In the week following Russia’s indefensible invasion of Ukraine, more than 1 million people have fled the country. The lines of refugees at the Ukraine-Poland border stretch for miles. Children cry in the freezing cold as wait times reach 60 hours. Refugees discuss the relatives they had been forced to leave behind — sometimes without knowing whether their loved ones are alive or dead. And the United Nations predicts these refugees could be followed by millions more — potentially resulting in “the biggest refugee crisis this century.”
As Ukrainians seek safe harbor, they fortunately have received an extraordinary outpouring of support from the international community. The U.N. Refugee Agency, the International Rescue Committee and other organizations have sent emergency teams and resources. People around the world, including in Russia, are taking to the streets to condemn the invasion — and donating to organizations offering direct aid to the Ukrainian people. The United States has pledged $54 million in humanitarian aid to Ukrainian refugees, with Congress considering an additional $2.9 billion as the situation escalates.
Though these efforts are vital, they also draw attention to our country’s cruelly inadequate infrastructure for aiding refugees from Ukraine and beyond. Instead of welcoming refugees with open arms, current efforts hold them at arm’s length.
While the United States has offered aid to help other countries welcome Ukrainian refugees, our own annual refugee cap remains at just 125,000. Worse, the United States resettled only about 4,400 refugees in January — a pace well below even the Trump-era annual cap of 15,000.
And the U.S. approach to other recent refugee crises has been abysmal. In Haiti, over the course of just a few months, tens of thousands fled a calamitous earthquake, a deadly tropical storm and an explosive political climate following their president’s assassination.
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I would take 10,000 Ukrainians over even a single Afghani.
Get ready for a few hundred thousand Vindmans.
Every time America plays with a turd, we get crap on our fingers. Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan. El Salvador, etc etc.
Vindman and commie Katrina again, still.
I’m sure fish lips Katrina will open her Upper East Side mansion to hundreds.
“Imagine there’s no countries”
Who cares what Katrina venden Heuvel says?
She’s a former editor of the leftist rag “The Nation.”
She just lost her husband recently.
A person is entitled to an appropriate mourning period. But if she is back to work, she is fair game for appropriate criticism.
Don’t forget the new arms race after the fighting ends. General Dynamics will sell north of 5000 M1 Abrams in the next five years.
Why would there be Ukrainian refugees when the Ukrainians are annihilating the Russian Army? And when the Russians aren’t being systematically wiped out by the Ghost of Keeeev, the rest of them are sitting in their tanks freezing to actual death!
Some of the best sardines come from Poland. Say goodbye to them at the supermarket. Between the attack and the bombing of nuclear storage facilities in the Ukraine nothing in Poland’s fishery waters will be edible for a hundred years.
No. Stop.
Build the wall, close the borders. Full stop!
Civilized Ukrainians are better than the feral savages that usually get the refugee label.
I am volunteering to sponsor a hot Ukrainian refugee.
Let me hear those balalaikas rigging out come and keep your comrade warm.
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