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Where will Afghanistan’s refugees go? --- With the West committing to take limited numbers and regional borders difficult and dangerous there are few good options
asiatimes.com ^ | August 24, 2021 | Tazreena Sajjad

Posted on 08/24/2021 6:22:53 PM PDT by elpadre

Images of thousands of Afghans desperately trying to flee their country following a hasty US withdrawal have provoked an international outcry.

As of August 22, 2021, some 6,000 US troops were working to evacuate US military, American citizens and Afghans who are approved for Special Immigrant Visas. SIVs are a special program to protect Afghans who risked their lives working for US troops in Afghanistan.

Germany, France, Italy and the UK are conducting smaller evacuation efforts for their nationals and some Afghans.

The pace of these poorly planned evacuations has been slow. They are taking place amid chaos in Kabul, where crowds are being confronted by violence from members of the now-ruling Taliban and US forces and facing checkpoints that are near-impossible to pass.

Shaharzad Akbar, who leads the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, called the situation “failure upon failure.”

As a scholar specializing in forcible displacement and refugees, I see this harrowing scene unfolding within a broader context of Afghanistan’s long-standing displacement crisis. This includes an unequal sharing of refugees between the developed world and economically disadvantaged countries.

A muted US role

The US Refugee Act of 1980 standardized the procedures for admitting refugees – people who have fled war, violence, conflict or persecution – and put in place a rigorous vetting process. But over the past 40 years, US acceptance rates for refugees worldwide have fallen significantly – from 200,000 admitted in 1980 to less than 50,000 in 2019. (article with chart continues at link)

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1 posted on 08/24/2021 6:22:53 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: elpadre

Plenty of room in the Saudi Arabian desert.


2 posted on 08/24/2021 6:25:26 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: elpadre

These evil 3rd century Savages are not wanted anywhere .
Ask a swede about these Gabbing rape sociopaths .


3 posted on 08/24/2021 6:25:33 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger )
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To: elpadre

These evil 3rd century Savages are not wanted anywhere .
Ask a swede about these Gang rape sociopaths .


4 posted on 08/24/2021 6:26:00 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger )
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To: elpadre

Much like the people flowing over the border, they will melt into the USA. Until they commit a crime.


5 posted on 08/24/2021 6:28:57 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: elpadre

Delaware can take them all so they can fondly remember the man who brought them all. It would be a better memorial to Joe’s corrupt and inept career than naming the train station in Wilmington after him.


6 posted on 08/24/2021 6:33:31 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: married21

Plenty of room at the Obozo estate on Obozo island.


7 posted on 08/24/2021 6:41:11 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: elpadre

Is China running out of Uighurs yet?


8 posted on 08/24/2021 6:46:03 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: elpadre

President dumbass and dumberass should have thought of that before starting this and ending it

You can decide if bush or Biden is dumberass..


9 posted on 08/24/2021 6:46:10 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: elpadre

At least 700 can fir on Obama’s compound. Ive seen the houses of the rich and famous in Malibu. Lots of room there. Anyone who holds up a “refugees welcome” sign probably has a couch.


10 posted on 08/24/2021 6:52:52 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: married21

What I’m thinking.


11 posted on 08/24/2021 6:59:20 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: elpadre

Who cares? Neither the US nor the world owes them nothing.

There’s a reason the country is like the land that time forgot. No one wants them. Iraqi’s, Jordanians, Egyptians and “Palestinians” are pretty low on the pecking order. None are lower than the folks from Afghanistan.

Austria’s Afghan Refugee Problem: Will it be Our Problem Soon?

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2021/07/16/austrias-afghan-refugee-problem-will-it-be-our-problem-soon/?fbclid=IwAR37Ku5IPTUsYhdtgJsv2WAfZV9qvlkt4mFk7oaUsSUS0BhGRyIIZfb4xIM

Coming soon, to SmallTown, USA. Courtesy of about 10 Governors, quite a few of them “Republicans”.


12 posted on 08/24/2021 7:17:00 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: elpadre

There is plenty of room in Beverly Hills. And eastern Long Island. And Fairfax County. And ....


13 posted on 08/24/2021 8:00:51 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: elpadre

There’s 43 million people there. 40 probably want out


14 posted on 08/24/2021 8:53:59 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: married21

Exactly.

There are, I understand, 57 Muslim countries.

Start shipping them there.


15 posted on 08/24/2021 10:19:15 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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