Posted on 09/04/2015 11:52:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A human rights group has called on the United States government to step up its outreach to Syrian refugees and resettle 65,000 people before the end of 2016. While the U.S. has said that it will accept between 5,000 to 8,000 refugees, the International Rescue Committee said that is far from enough to really help Europe in its migrant crisis.
"Not only are Syrians resorting to desperate measures to seek a better life for themselves and their families in Europe, but they are dying in the process," IRC president David Miliband said in a statement.
"The U.S. has historically been the world leader in recognizing the moral obligation to resettle refugees," Miliband added. "As the German government calmly says that it expects 800,000 refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, it is vital for the U.S. to step up its response."
Close to 4 million Syrians have fled their country due to the four-year-old civil war, but the vast majority of them are stuck in neighboring countries and waiting for Western countries to help them relocate.
The flow of refugees is overwhelming European borders, however, with U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage calling it a crisis of "biblical proportions."
The refugees have been met with different responses throughout Europe, while some U.S. politicians, such as Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., have called on President Barack Obama to do more to help.
"The United States has a moral obligation to assist countries that are hosting Syrian refugees, but we also have a national security interest in maintaining stability in this critical region," Durbin said in a letter.
"Moreover, at this delicate moment in relations between the United States and the Arab world, offering safe haven to more Syrians refugees will send a positive signal about our concern for the suffering of innocent civilians."
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Tell these people to stand up and go home and fight for their country, what ever side that may be. If they will not fight for their own home what good will they be to another country as a refugee? Their wives and kids are no safer running away than standing and fight.
They should send them to Turkey. Or Saudi Arabia. Or Egypt. Or Algeria.
Can we trade 65,000 Syrian Christians for 65,000 Muslims already In the US ?
We’d love to help you, but we’ve already taken 20 million and we’re full....
Let Turkey and Saudi Arabia take them in.
Before the end of 2016,,, of course!-)
Nah, but we will send you a few illegals to help you out.
Christian Syrians -yes
Muslim Syrians - no
They keep telling us about 1.6 billions Muslims in the world in 57 Muslim nations. That’s where these should be sent. A million or so refugees among 1.6 billion would scarcely be noticed and they’d be so much at home culturally.
Our idiot Western ‘leaders’ should take that stance and not back away from it.
Odd how the Syrian refugees become a global problem.
You won’t get to decide which ones (Christian or Muslin) 0nama will accept.
Why not????? Let us ask the people sliding in to the US on the Mexican border if we should take 65k non-Latino immigrants. Wanna bet what the answer will be?
Mexico is largely depopulated as half their citizens are in the US, try there.
Only 65,000?
Add two zeros to the end, and Obama will be happy to comply. Yeah, there are only supposed to be 20M Syrians, but that’s just a minor detail to King Obama.
Who are they to demand anything?
I demand they wash my car.
Just who are the unaccountable, unelected idiots in the International Rescue Committee? How many syrian (and other) “refugees” have they personally taken-in? Most likely, they are rich socialists who live in protected compounds. Losers. Degenerates. Idiots.
They can suggest but they have no right to demand we take even one of those Muslims. We already have to many immigrants from enemy nations. We should take only those we want to migrate here - who make positive contributions to this country and do not drain our resources.
Has anyone demanded that the US act to “end” the civil war in Syria by “taking out” Assad?
No?
Why not?
Think of all the refugees who could then GO HOME and live their lives in peace...
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