Secretary of state John Kerry announced that the USA will take in another 185,000 refugees in 2016 and 2017, mostly from Syria. That's 85,000 next year and 100,000 the following year. To say the least, this is a disgusting move.
First of all, we need to distinguish between people who are actually fleeing for their own safety and those who are already out of Syria and are just looking for a better life. If our taking in people will save their lives, then clearly we ought to do it. On the other hand, if the "refugee" status is just a means to jump ahead on the line for legal immigrants, then we ought not let them game the system.
That being said, however, we have to take a close look at the people we admit. Surveys done of the "Syrian refugees" in Europe showed that nearly 80% of those moving through Hungary were not actually from Syria. There were many from places like Turkey where there is no fighting or even threat of fighting at the moment. Clearly, these surveys were unscientific because they questioned people for only a short time. Maybe the earlier migrants were actually Syrian refugees, but then again, maybe they weren't. Surveys done on the same migrants also showed that nearly 60% were adult men. There is no population in the world where 60% are adult males. Usually, there are slightly more women than men, and for a Middle Eastern population, nearly half should be children. In other words, there ought to be 25 or at most 30% adult men in the group, but there were 60%. That tells us that these "refugees" are something other than people fleeing violence.
Let's quickly add that not all of the "refugees" are fake, but a great many clearly are.
There is nothing that says that the USA has any moral or other obligation to take in tens of thousands of people who claim to be refugees so that they can come here. America, we are constantly told by the media, is a nation of immigrants. That's true, but America is also a nation of laws, or at least it used to be so. We have immigration laws and they ought to be enforced.
First of all, we need to distinguish between people who are actually fleeing for their own safety and those who are already out of Syria and are just looking for a better life. If our taking in people will save their lives, then clearly we ought to do it. On the other hand, if the "refugee" status is just a means to jump ahead on the line for legal immigrants, then we ought not let them game the system.
That being said, however, we have to take a close look at the people we admit. Surveys done of the "Syrian refugees" in Europe showed that nearly 80% of those moving through Hungary were not actually from Syria. There were many from places like Turkey where there is no fighting or even threat of fighting at the moment. Clearly, these surveys were unscientific because they questioned people for only a short time. Maybe the earlier migrants were actually Syrian refugees, but then again, maybe they weren't. Surveys done on the same migrants also showed that nearly 60% were adult men. There is no population in the world where 60% are adult males. Usually, there are slightly more women than men, and for a Middle Eastern population, nearly half should be children. In other words, there ought to be 25 or at most 30% adult men in the group, but there were 60%. That tells us that these "refugees" are something other than people fleeing violence.
Let's quickly add that not all of the "refugees" are fake, but a great many clearly are.
There is nothing that says that the USA has any moral or other obligation to take in tens of thousands of people who claim to be refugees so that they can come here. America, we are constantly told by the media, is a nation of immigrants. That's true, but America is also a nation of laws, or at least it used to be so. We have immigration laws and they ought to be enforced.
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