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U.S. again slashing number of refugees it will accept

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By SUSANNAH GEORGE

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Why does America need immigrants? It's not like they've ever been important to its history.

Oh, and let's just ship the Statue of Liberty back to France.

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Common sense ! Perhaps it's not so uncommon as it has seemed to be lately.

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Oh, and let's just ship the Statue of Liberty back to France.

Exactly... can't have that message she sends out being repeated to those tired, huddled masses:

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homelesstempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

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Yes, send that statue back , it takes too much money to keep it maintained. Surely the costs can go to something else, like pay the bills. The US needs no more refugees, instead send them all to China. they are very welcomed there..

1 ( +9 / -8 )

Great move.

-5 ( +10 / -15 )

Home of the free?

0 ( +7 / -7 )

There are 10 million illegal immigrants already in the country. We need to process (and pay for) those first.

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I dare say the following but refugees are just ONE type of immigrants. Let’s not mix the two. While each country should be free to have their own immigration criteria, the refugee crisis is a burden that should be collectively addressed, not just the US.

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Wow, America's great allowing 30,000 refugees!

Some countries are not even close allow that many ;)

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Maybe China and Russia can pick up the slack?

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As soon as the other affluent countries in the Middle East accept their share, then maybe we can take a few of them.

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As soon as the other affluent countries in the Middle East accept their share, then maybe we can take a few of them.

Exactly.

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Any country that has agreed to take in refugees, and refuses to is pathetic. Whether they be rich Middle Eastern countries, or those who blame their refusal on the refusal by rich Middle Eastern countries.

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Looking forward to the day when Putin's Puppet is nothing but a sad footnote in the history books.

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It's not like America was founded by immigration ohhh

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America is full. Just because you hired a lot of people when you were a startup doesn’t mean you have to keep hiring people every year out of obligation.

Especially when there are random people standing in your office claiming they work for your company and demanding full benefits just because someone didn’t lock the door years ago.

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That would be about 29,000 more than Japan, Korea or China accept on a yearly basis.

"In 2015, China only recognized 154 refugees and 641 asylum-seekers, according to UNHCR."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/12/why-do-some-countries-get-away-with-taking-fewer-refugees-united-states-china/

"According to the Ministry of Justice in South Korea, there has been 12,208 asylum applicants since 1992 and it accepted 522 (4.2% of the total applicants) as refugees"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_in_South_Korea

So from 1992 to 2012 that's 522 over 20 years. Worse than China

Japan? "Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, received a record 10,901 applications for refuge in 2016, an increase of 44 per cent from the previous year.

But from those applications, the highly developed country accepted only 28 refugees in 12 months, according to data recently released by the Japanese government."

44 in 2016

So 154, 44 and say approx 50 per year for Korea. Grand total of 200 refugees for the 3 most powerful and wealthy Asian states. Really taking on a load aren't they?

Of course most refugee's aren't even accounted for as they illegally cross borders in conflict zones. Africa, Mid East, Sub Continent.

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BlacklabelToday  08:05 pm JST

America is full.

Oh? Where precisely is America's fill line?

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Unrestricted access of foreigners to the free lunch table no longer in the US best interest. Probably best to try an exclusion policy - no one in, no one out - perhaps a role model from the past exists.

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From 2015 numbers:

America still has the largest number of immigrants of all sorts allowed. USA has over 3x more (46.6M) than the 2nd place, Germany (12M). 14.3% of people living in the USA are foreign born.

Between legal and illegal immigrants, no other country even comes close.

Japan has just over 2M foreign-born people - under 2% of their population. China is under 1M.

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Trump needs to show something is being done so fear-driven conservatives can lie to themselves and say Trump is doing a good job.

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I see conservatives are still propagating the falsehood that undocumented immigrants eat up public services.

Comsistency on the face of facts.

-7 ( +2 / -9 )

*Consistency

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Trump needs to show something is being done so fear-driven conservatives can lie to themselves and say Trump is doing a good job.

This might help...

Yeah, if the media would do their job instead of trying to find something negative with this President they might be surprised by the reality that surrounds them instead being the arm of resistance.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/media-blackout-trumps-60-point-accomplishment-list-of-american-greatness

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Well I'm glad my family made it in before Trump took office. Others here should probably appreciate it as well.

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Didn't Trump's family come from overseas? And Stephan Miller? And Meliana?

I guess America got full right after.

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Immigration policies will be the decline of western civilization, just wait and see.

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Cricky - It's not like America was founded by immigration ohhh

I've always been interested in the emigration policy that governed Australia's immigration policy. Any refugees who can't be sent to the U.S. could always be sent to Australia.

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The US averages over a million legal immigrants a year, with close to 1.5 million in 2016. Legal immigrants have made enormous contributions to American society over the years and continue to do so now. All over world people are hitting up the local US embassy, filling out the forms, providing necessary information, paying their fees and getting in line. Millions have done it, millions are waiting and many millions are now living and prospering in their new country.

But this story is about refugees. In 2017 the US accepted and settled more refugees than any other single country on earth. Between 1982 and 2016 the US consistently accepted and settled more refugees than the rest of the world's countries, combined. Consider this, in 2017 Japan (the world's third largest economy) accepted 20 refugees. And China (the world's second largest economy) has refused to take any refugees from Syria at all.

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It's beyond hilarious how barely literate conservatives are concerned with the rule of law when it comes to immigrants, but not when it comes to Dumpster Fire Donny and his circle of criminals.

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And China (the world's second largest economy) has refused to take any refugees from Syria at all.

Okay. So, how many other refugees did China accept?

Nice bait and switch there. Refugees, refugees, refugees from Syria.

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While it's very charitable to be accepting refugees,surely it's incumbent upon every country give priority to the welfare of it's own citizens. To give succour to citizens of other countries while neglecting their own ---and there are plenty of homeless hungry people in the USA,Japan and China--to name just a few--is surely an indication of misplaced altruism---to put it mildly!

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Okay. So, how many other refugees did China accept?

Matt Hartwell pegged that number at 154, but that was for 2015.

Do you have something more recent that would indicate a significant increase? I haven't seen anything myself that would indicate that China has changed it's stance on refugees. China has expressed a willingness to assist in the global refugee crisis by ponying up some cash to finance relief and support efforts in the refugees home countries and/or in third country refugee facilities. But still balks at accepting any foreign refugees.

China has a pretty nasty refugee situation right in its own backyard with the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar. China has a vested interest in the region and desires to play a leadership role in regional activities so they identified (what they understood to be) the root problem and took measures to address it. The way they see it the real problem is an unequal access to resources, wealth and influence. So they went to work developing infrastructure and investing in economic development projects, aiming to raise the standard of living for everybody and reducing the gap between the insiders and the outsiders. They donated thousands of temporary houses and worked with Bangladeshi and Burmese officials to facilitate the refugees safe return to Myanmar. China is doing a lot to address the situation, but at no time did they offer to take in any refugees.

Maybe the virtue signaling western powers could learn something from the Chinese on this one.

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Maybe the virtue signaling western powers could learn something from the Chinese on this one.

I agree with the basic principle of this.

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