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| Obama Orders U.S. to Admit 10,000 Syrian Refugees |
| 2015-09-12 |
[AnNahar] President Barack ObamaI think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... has ordered his team to admit at least 10,000 Syrian refugees next year, the White House said Thursday, amid criticism that the United States has not done enough. Spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama had asked staff to "scale up" the number of refugee admissions from around 1,500 in this fiscal year, to 10,000 in the next, beginning October 1. "He has informed his team that he would like them to accept at least 10,000 refugees in the next fiscal year," said Earnest. With global public opinion shocked by images of drowning refugees, the United States is under political pressure to act quickly. The United States currently accepts around 70,000 refugees from conflicts and persecution each year, but has been slow to accept Syrians. Refugees from Syria and its region must undergo strict security checks to weed out bully boys, even after being registered by the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense.... How the US plans to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees [IsraelTimes] Process of running security checks, medical tests and eligibility as refugees usually take up to two years until they reach US soil US President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... has promised that the United States will admit 10,000 Syrian refugees for resettlement over the next 12 months, after criticism that America is not doing enough. But this would represent a huge increase in the number of families arriving on US soil. In the more that four years since fighting erupted barely 1,800 Syrians have been welcomed here. Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... obstacles have stretched the approval process for those already registered and vetted by the UN's refugee agency to almost two years per case. So how will Obama's promise be delivered and what hurdles are keeping the refugees from arriving sooner? More than four million people have fled the fighting in Syria since 2011 and most are living in camps in Jordan, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Leb, Egypt and Iraq, where the UN High Commissioner for Refugees registers them. Some 18,000 of these people -- chosen because they are the most vulnerable whether through family circumstances, injury or disability -- have been referred to the United States for resettlement. Once the US State Department receives their case files it employs NGO contractors to pre-screen them for eligibility for refugee status, then they are subjected to health and security checks. Officers from the Department of Homeland Security fly from Washington to the camps and conduct interviews with candidates, seeking to weed out what a US official called "liars, criminals and terrorists." Each case file is reviewed by the National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI's terrorist screening center, the DHS, the Department of Defense and "other agencies" -- US intelligence. "Refugees are subject to the highest level of security checks of any category of traveler to the United States," another State Department official told news hounds. Meanwhile they receive medical tests and those with communicable diseases, most commonly tuberculosis, are given treatment before they can travel to the United States, often delaying the process. Currently the procedure takes between 18 and 24 months from the time UNHCR recommends a refugee for resettlement and that person's flight to America. It is not clear how much the screening process for Syrians costs, but the US government spent $1.1 billion last year resettling 70,000 people from around the world, or almost $16,000 per head. Critics note that if the United States takes two years to screen each of the 10,000 refugees Obama has promised to welcome none will have arrived before he leaves office. But, according to a US official, thousands of cases are already in the pipeline and will hopefully now be processed faster. "We have been resettling Syrian refugees in small numbers since 2011 and it was only in June of 2014 that UNHCR started submitting large numbers of referrals, between 500 and 1,000 per month," she said. “Those referrals have come pretty steadily since last June to the point where we now have a critical mass. We at the State Department have already prepared the cases for more than 10,000 people." Once refugees are approved, the State Department pays the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to fly them to the United States. Refugees sign a promissory note to repay their airfare once they are established, and they are met at the airport by members of one of nine non-government resettlement agencies contracted by the State Department. There are around 180 resettlement centers dispersed across the United States, where NGO workers help the new arrivals settle in and find work and accommodation in their first 30 to 90 days. Those who have relatives in the United States will sometimes be assigned to live near them, and most go to cities like Atlanta, San Diego or Dallas where rents are more affordable than in New York or the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... Others end up in smaller cities like Boise, Idaho or Erie, Pennsylvania, but regardless of where they are taken they are free to move once they find their footing. After 90 days new arrivals are no longer eligible for the State Department-funded support through the resettlement agencies, but some join support programs run by the Department of Health and Human Services. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 We got 5000 camping out in Munich Central Station. 15000 arrived within a few hours, more to follow on Sunday. Probably 40000 this weekend in Germany. Next weekend is Oktoberfest. At least 2 weeks later we'll have tents. Big tents. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2015-09-12 19:27 |
| #3 No males 18 or older unless they have a family (wife, children) with them. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-09-12 19:12 |
| #2 ...at least 10K. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2015-09-12 12:09 |
| #1 Send the military age males to a refugee camp in Guantanamo Bay Cuba. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-09-12 10:12 |