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Many "Syrian Refugees"
Are Neither Syrian Nor Refugees
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Dear Concerned,
We call your
attention to yet another example of how the "Syrian Refugee Crisis”
may not be quite what it appears.
It’s time for the
American people to tell the U.S. Government to grow a brain. It’s not
rocket science. A sovereign nation should not allow a mass influx of
people who have not been vetted, and who cannot be tracked or supported
through its financial and physical infrastructure.
This is a serious
and time-sensitive matter. We need you to get involved. Our elected
officials will only take action if they are forced to do so -- by those
who vote them in — and OUT
— of office. And that’s you.
Please
join our growing Refugee Resettlement Working group TODAY, and pass this
urgent call-to-action on to everyone you know.
Many "Syrian Refugees" Are Neither Syrian Nor
Refugees
by Ian Tuttle
Our policy on
admitting refugees should be: Security first, then compassion.
Over the weekend,
Secretary of State John Kerry reiterated the Obama administration’s
commitment to taking in 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next fiscal year
and announced that the federal government would be increasing its annual
total refugee cap from 70,000 to 100,000 by 2017, to accommodate more
refugees from war-torn Syria. “This step that I am announcing today, I
believe, is in keeping with the best tradition of America as a land of
second chances and a beacon of hope,” said Kerry on Sunday during a trip
to Germany.
Also on Sunday,
Hillary Clinton called on the administration to take 65,000 Syrian
refugees, declaring, “I want the United States to lead the world.” Her
Democratic opponent Martin O’Malley endorsed the same target earlier this
month.
Some 4 million
persons have fled the Syrian civil war, and another 7 million are
internally displaced. The plight of these persons is tragic. But
Americans should not confuse “leading the world” with a reflexive
openness to the world’s heavy-laden. The Obama administration should not
receive a single Syrian refugee unless it is able to answer adequately
the following five questions.
1. Can we
distinguish between genuine refugees and economic migrants?
Despite being
billed as a “refugee crisis,” what is unfolding along Europe’s borders is
a mixed migration of asylum seekers and economic migrants. The European
Union’s official statistical agency, Eurostat, recorded 213,0000 arrived
migrants in April, May, and June of this year; only 44,000 — 1 in five —
were fleeing war in Syria. With new international attention turned to the
problem over the last month, that proportion likely has changed. But even
the International Organization for Migration reports that Syrians make up
only 40 percent of the total migrant population. Another 11 percent are
Afghans fleeing the Taliban; Eritreans fleeing their own oppressive
government are 7 percent; and many thousands more hail from Iraq, Pakistan,
and sub-Saharan Africa.
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