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They Adopted Refugee Families for 12 Months. Then Came ‘Month 13.’
The New York Times ^ | MARCH 25, 2017 | Jodi Kantor and Catrin Einhorn

Posted on 03/25/2017 5:52:28 AM PDT by Johnny Diamond

One year after Canada embraced Syrian refugees like no other country, a reckoning was underway.

Ordinary Canadians had essentially adopted thousands of Syrian families, donating a year of their time and money to guide them into new lives just as many other countries shunned them. Some citizens already considered the project a humanitarian triumph; others believed the Syrians would end up isolated and adrift, stuck on welfare or worse. As 2016 turned to 2017 and the yearlong commitments began to expire, the question of how the newcomers would fare acquired a national nickname: Month 13, when the Syrians would try to stand on their own.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: canada; refugee; resettlement
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To: jch10
There are many wealthy Syrians and others from middle Eastern countries, shouldn’t they be the main ones sponsoring the refugees?

LOL! Good luck with that. The wealthy Syrians don't give a rat's patootie for their poor, and you'll never convince them otherwise. It's Allah's will for them to be in that miserable state, yadda yadda.


21 posted on 03/25/2017 6:26:24 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: billorites

Feel bad all you want. Adults need to take responsibility for their home and loved ones.


22 posted on 03/25/2017 6:26:49 AM PDT by healy61
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To: polymuser
For past immigrant/refugees, they wanted to become part of their new land and society, and parents pushed assimilation for the success of their children. I am very doubtful that is true for muzzies.

Not for muzzies. Their culture pushes conquest, not assimilation. Hence their kids grow up wanting to kill infidels.

23 posted on 03/25/2017 6:28:14 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: PLMerite

No, they expected to come to Canada and take over. They will.

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Yep. And they’ve been taught from birth that the infidels are to pay their way while taking over.


24 posted on 03/25/2017 6:28:20 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Twotone

If these self-righteous phonies weren’t collecting Syrian refugees they’d be living in tiny houses with fifty cats each. This stupid liberal women will long gone and the unassimilated, hostile refugees they bought in will be changing their hosts culture and nation for years to come. And not for the better.


25 posted on 03/25/2017 6:28:53 AM PDT by jmacusa (Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
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To: Johnny Diamond

This must be an updated story that the Times posted at least a month ago. What I remember from the original story was that Dad - given an apartment, a job and lots of social services - was getting that kind of jihadi-anger we all love and admire because his daughter was taking ballet lessons and wearing those skimpy leotards and mom had a good job and was serving lousy meals to the family. I think she was even wearing frocks rather than a full-on burka.


26 posted on 03/25/2017 6:30:27 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: polymuser
Or the Lithuanians in the later 1920’s escaping the Russians..... They got off a ship with almost nothing and got to work. Worked hard, learned the language, obeyed the law, went to church, were good and productive Americans. And were very thankful for the opportunity, not whiners, not one bit.

I think you are on to something there.

Islamic work ethic and Christian work ethics are vastly different.

27 posted on 03/25/2017 6:33:56 AM PDT by Popman
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To: polymuser

In addition the cost of healthcare should be factored in. However, look at it this way: In several years there will be two more votes for the Left and within two decades four more will sign on. That is what this is all about.


28 posted on 03/25/2017 6:33:58 AM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Johnny Diamond

What happens when one of the male refugees separates his female sponsor’s head from her shoulders because she (unknowingly) slighted him/his religion? Or, uses his camel “prod” to welcome her to his world of “submission”?


29 posted on 03/25/2017 6:34:51 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Twotone
Trying to drop someone from a backward nation with no education & no skills into a 21st century nation was always foolish.

Liberals have long believed that backwards people would prosper by osmosis if simply dropped into the middle of functioning neighborhoods and schools. They've been at it for over fifty years now, always with the same dismal results; the newcomers fail, become frustrated with their inability to adapt, lash out in violence and crime and ultimately bring down everyone around them. Yet liberals will never let go of the belief that only white people can save these people from themselves.

30 posted on 03/25/2017 6:36:32 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Yep.

Papa is taking money out of his bank account so he can game the system, cry poverty and scam welfare money.


31 posted on 03/25/2017 6:36:45 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Popman

If they got of in the 1920’s, their sons joined the military or were ashamed they were not accepted. That alone is a huge difference from the current system. Military service inculcates patriotism and ending the conscription means that new immigrant sons, by and large, will not serve. The will love the country in the same way Julian Castro or Charlie Schumer love America; not at all.


32 posted on 03/25/2017 6:37:10 AM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Johnny Diamond

36 and he left his father and other family in Syria? Coward.


33 posted on 03/25/2017 6:37:29 AM PDT by boycott
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To: polymuser

Muzzles never assimilate.

They only colonize.


34 posted on 03/25/2017 6:37:56 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Johnny Diamond

“But the Hajjes could not read or write, even in Arabic.

After a year of grinding English study, Mr. Hajj, 36, struggled to get the new words out. He longed to scan a supermarket label or road sign with ease and had grown increasingly upset about his second-grade education, understanding how inadequate it would prove in the years to come.”

Just what Canada needed, a bunch of illiterate morons that don’t speak English.


35 posted on 03/25/2017 6:39:02 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: Twotone

These liberal do-gooders feel they have to reach out to help others while overlooking millions in need right here in North America. A lot of them do things like this to let the world know how good they are.


36 posted on 03/25/2017 6:42:19 AM PDT by boycott
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To: MSF BU
The will love the country in the same way Julian Castro or Charlie Schumer love America; not at all.

They look at us as sheep ready to be sheared. ..

37 posted on 03/25/2017 6:43:47 AM PDT by Popman
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To: Twotone

>>Trying to drop someone from a backward nation with no education & no skills into a 21st century nation was always foolish.

Don’t forget, in many of these countries, they have plenty of education - it’s just that the education was in madrasas, and most of what they learned was memorizing the Koran. Which speaks loudly to your “no skills” and “foolish” points.


38 posted on 03/25/2017 6:46:14 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
The useful idiots just assume that illiterate rural Syrian refugees can seamlessly become productive middle class urban Canadians in only 12 months. You cannot transfer people from the stone age to 21st century western civilization in 12 months or even 12 years. It simply isn’t possible.

Perhaps the real objective is to drag western civilization 1500 years backward. Liberals like the idea of universal 3rd world standards (except for themselves personally).

39 posted on 03/25/2017 6:49:18 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Johnny Diamond
A few weeks later, Mr. Hajj asked the sponsors about going on welfare. He had heard about it from his classmates in English lessons. Some were enrolling, seeing it as a safer bet than insecure, low-wage jobs, they told him. One explained that he could work and still collect the government assistance, if he could persuade his boss to pay him under the table.

With a sinking feeling, the sponsors began to worry: Had Mr. Hajj been withdrawing the money to game the system, to lower his bank balance so he would qualify for social assistance?

Refugees gaming the welfare system? Who saw this coming?

40 posted on 03/25/2017 6:50:02 AM PDT by Drew68
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