Posted on 10/05/2016 12:07:16 PM PDT by Lorianne
The burden of the global refugee crisis is being unfairly shared, with just 10 countries hosting the majority of refugees, humanitarian groups said, urging wealthy nations to step up their response.
Fighting in Syria, Afghanistan, Burundi and South Sudan has pushed the total number of refugees to a record 21.3 million in 2016, according to the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR.
Fifty eight percent of refugees recognized by UNHCR have found shelter in one of only 10 neighboring countries: Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"The responsibility of protecting refugees is very unequally distributed," UNHCR spokesman William Spindler told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a statement on Monday.
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Well “humanitarian groups” should take them home with them then!
Accepting unlimited basket-case refugees from basket-case countries is nothing but the importation of violence, poverty, disease, and want. I am all for a hand-up to countries as they struggle but not for the importation of their problems to make them our own problems.
Hey, neighbor, you’re not taking in your fair share of terrorists.
Easy solution.
Tell them to stay and fix their countries - or die.
Yes. We don’t have magic land. Wealth cones from morality, law, culture, industriousness. Anything possible here is possible in those places if they embrace the ideals our wealth was built upon. We are not merely lucky. The ideas work because they are based on reality and not how we WISH reality worked. Their choice so far is to cling to ideas that fail, have always failed, will always fail.
Well stated!
The refugees are ethnically, culturally, and religiously the same as other Arabs. Seems to me the responsibility should be fairly distributed amongst the Arab nations, first and foremost.
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