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Comments

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[(Anonymous)]

No, refugees = a huge cost. Our economy already sucks, so suddenly having to find housing, food and money for thousands of refugees is one hell of a problem.

Plus our police are stuck with handling their applications = less time patrolling the traffic, less time solving crimes.

Our government has to cough up hundreds of millions to pay for the extra costs they bring, and this all happens while they are cutting from education, social welfare, and just about everything except the costs of immigration, so yes, all these refugees are not a good thing.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[tabaqui]

And I disagree.

If you're talking about the US, the economy doesn't really 'suck' - it's certainly much better than it was eight years ago.

Also, the police do not handle Syrian refugee (or other refugee) applications - those *start* at the UN and come down to Federal agencies already in place.

As for costs of 'thousands' of refugees - we've only allowed in 2,200 since 2011 from Syria. And we only cover 'services' for 90 days. They are *all* expect to find jobs and become self sufficient (and statistics say they do more readily than natives. See first link.)

Education and etc. is not being cut *because of refugees* - it's being cut because certain of our government minions believes an under-educated and desperate populace is easier to control. All signs point to 'yes' on that front.

Like i sad - trolling.

http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/refugees-fact-sheet

http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/refugees/united-states-refugee-admissions-program-usrap-consultation-worldwide-processing-priorities

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/politics/syrian-refugees-u-s-applicants-explainer/

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not talking about the US. I'm talking about European countries that have only a few million citizens. Suddenly getting tens of thousands of refugees and hundreds more marching in every day IS straining the system badly. And yes, it's our police that has to handle their applications and move them forward in the system. So sorry if we are not feeling the "Welcome all, open doors all day, every day" attitude all that much.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[tabaqui]

Well, many of your fellows seem to disagree with you. I'll let you hash it out with them, since it's not US policy/economics we're talking about (and you don't get specific), so I can't know if your claims are 100 percent true, false, or somewhere in between.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[(Anonymous)]

I think this video sums up how, really, we CAN help the refugees. It's just overblown fear feeding an insular group-think and prejudice that keeps people saying no. Kudos to the countries that are actually stepping up.

syrian refugee's in a nutshell

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[(Anonymous)]

oops, forgot the link. -__-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvOnXh3NN9w

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[raspberryrain]

That was well done.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[tabaqui]

That was a very cool vid, thanks for linking.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[tabaqui]

In the US, it's xenophobia and racism and the GOP. Kind of par for the course in the US.

There's no video link, sorry.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry! I put the link in a response to that post.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[tabaqui]

Okay, thanks.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[(Anonymous)]

Not just the GOP. There are plenty of Democrats that are sprouting the same nonsense.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[hwc]

If they are integrated right refugees will also eventually repay the government by paying taxes. If the government would just get their shit together it could actually be a good thing in the long run; get those young refugees settled and into the workforce we might avoid the collapse of our pension fund.

Does the refugee situation cost us a lot of money right now? Yes, it does. It's a crisis; crises tend to require a lot of money to solve.

ETA: I agree on the police being stuck handling refugees being a problem but again, I think this is a problem I think the government could solve if they would just stop sticking their heads in the sand and hoping the problem will go away on its own.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not feeling very hopeful about the integration. Most of the refugees coming to our country are from countries whose citizens have very poor employment rates even after living here for several years. They will cost a lot for the foreseeable future, and if more arrive at the same rate, the situation will become even worse.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[hwc]

I'm optimistic, but I think the government needs to do more. My mom works with refugees and I often tag along with her, so I know a few of them myself. Even with the ones whose German (I'm from Germany, in case it matters) was quiet good they can't get paid work (because of the status of their asylum application? I'm not sure, it's all stupidly bureaucratic. I'm honestly amazed at our relief coordinator who keeps track of all these things in her sparetime), so they go from one internship to the next (where they in turn are only allowed to be for a couple of months).

I mean, realistically speaking we won't be able to get every refugee a job, but then, not all Germans have a job either. But we have a problem in our society where we don't have enough young people to fund our pension fund. And suddenly we have an influx of young people.

Re: Most baffling statement you've seen/heard recently

[(Anonymous)]

We have kind of an opposite problem: unemployment is getting worse among the younger people and the lower skill level/entry level jobs are increasingly vanishing, so there are only a few jobs available to recent immigrants (excluding doctors and high-level professionals) and they are facing stiff competition from the people living here.

There's also the possibility that some employers will be using this as an excuse to lower wages, because if the current employees are used to demanding a living wage, the newcomers will be happy with getting paid in peanuts.