Quote:
Originally Posted by Acajack
Refugee admissions are another story but of course if we are going to be compassionate we don't have the luxury of choosing where crises and wars break out and which types of people are going to be in danger and lose everything.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by kwoldtimer
Although we do retain, in general, control over whom we decide to accept as refugees.
|
Most refugees from the Middle East, Africa or Asia that manage to leave don't really make it really far though, especially to a developed western country.
That's why many millions of Syrian refugees are in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey and although Germany has taken over half a million, only tens of thousands are in Canada, and fewer in the US still.
The Rohingya refugees are mostly in neighboring Bangladesh, but hardly any have managed to be accepted into a western country like the US or Canada.
There are times, however, not too long ago when there have been more refugees accepted in the west than in contemporary times, such as when the US accepted nearly a million Vietnamese refugees in the aftermath of the Vietnam war.