They're The Invisible Ones: Refugees Who Aren't Officially Refugees

[Sally]

If they are invisible and no one knows about them, how will they ever get any aid?



They're The Invisible Ones: Refugees Who Aren't Officially Refugees

May 11, 201611:19 AM ET


JASON BEAUBIEN

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The image of refugees crammed in a boat crossing the Mediterranean was one of the iconic pictures of 2015. Some 13 million people were tallied as refugees last year by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, fleeing violence or disaster in their home countries.

But another 27.8 million people were displaced from their homes in 2015: 8.6 million because of armed conflicts and another 19.2 million due to natural disasters.


But they're not counted in the refugee numbers. That's because they stayed in their in own country, so they aren't officially categorized as refugees.

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They're The Invisible Ones: Refugees Who Aren't Officially Refugees?

 

[Sunni Man]

Oy vey!! .......

 

[waltky]

Who's lettin' `em in now?...

132 Syrian Muslim Refugees Admitted to U.S. in 4 Days After Inauguration
January 25, 2017 – Since the day after President Trump’s inauguration, 773 refugees have been admitted into the United States.

The largest single contingent, 136-strong, comprises Syrian refugees, according to State Department Refugee Processing Center data. Of those, 132 (97 percent) are Muslims, three are Yazidis and one is a Christian. Sizeable groups have also arrived since January 21 from other countries compromised by terrorism, including 88 from Somalia, 80 from Iraq and 52 from Iran. (If the count includes the day of the inauguration, the number rises to 878 in total, including 166 Syrians and 115 Iraqis.) The president is reportedly planning to issue executive orders this week freezing refugee admissions, pending measures to strengthen the security vetting process.

According to a Reuters report, Trump will in addition move to restrict immigration from seven specified countries – Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The seven include the three countries currently designated by the State Department as state-sponsors of terrorism – Iran, Syria and Sudan – and others that have been among the most affected by terrorism in recent years. Not included, however, are several countries that scored high on the most recent Global Terrorism Index, notably Afghanistan (2nd on the list), Nigeria (3rd), Pakistan (4th), India (7th) and Egypt (9th).

Rankings on the index, compiled by the Institute for Economics and Peace, are calculated based on the number of terrorist incidents, fatalities, casualties, and the level of property damage. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said late Tuesday that the anticipated executive orders “will be the actual implementation of what then-candidate Trump said would be a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States.” “These [orders] will not make our nation safer, rather they will make it more fearful and less welcoming,” CAIR national executive director Nihad Awad tweeted in response to the Reuters report.

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[waltky]

Mebbe we should heed the European rape-you-gee experience...

Poll: Europeans Favor Halt to Immigration From Mainly Muslim Countries
February 10, 2017 — A majority of Europeans opposes any more immigration from Muslim-majority countries, according to a poll conducted before U.S. President Donald Trump signed a controversial executive order temporarily curtailing immigration from seven countries in the Middle East and Horn of Africa.

The survey points to "significant and widespread levels of public anxiety in Europe over immigration from mainly Muslim states," say analysts at Chatham House, the British research organization. The survey found that most people across the 10 European Union countries polled want to stop all future immigration from Muslim-majority countries. Chatham House found opposition to Muslim immigration is more intense among the retired and older Europeans, while those under 30 years old are significantly less opposed. There are also divides in opinion when it comes to education levels: respondents who only completed high school were 59 percent opposed to further Muslim immigration, while less than half of college graduates favored curbs. Those living in rural areas are more likely to want a halt to further Muslim migration than those living in cities. The age, location and education breakdown in the poll mirror the same divisions present with Brexit, Britain's vote last year to leave the European Union.

‘Underlying’ anti-immigration support

Overall, across all 10 of the European countries surveyed, an average of 55 percent want all further migration from mainly Muslim countries stopped; 25 percent neither agree nor disagree about curbs and 20 percent disagreed with a ban. Majorities in all but two of the 10 states agreed on curbs, ranging from 71 percent in Poland, 65 percent in Austria, 53 percent in Germany and 51 percent in Italy to 47 percent in Britain and 41 percent in Spain. In no country did the percentage who disagreed with a ban surpass 32 percent. With the exception of Poland, the countries surveyed have either been at the center of the refugee crisis or suffered recent terrorist attacks. The researchers — Matthew Goodwin and Thomas Raines, who are analysts at Chatham House, and David Cutts, a political scientist at the University of Birmingham — say the poll shows that there is "an underlying reservoir of public support" for Europe's anti-immigrant alt-right parties.

Upcoming elections

The Chatham House poll comes as mainstream politicians prepare for possibly epoch-changing elections later this year. Germany, France, the Netherlands, and possibly Italy will hold elections in 2017 and in all of them, far-right parties are gaining ground and predicting electoral breakthroughs, buoyed by Trump's upset election win in the United States. Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's National Front party, who is likely to make it to a runoff for the French presidency, has predicted 2017 will be "the year of the patriotic spring." "Our results are striking and sobering," the Chatham House analysts said. "They suggest that public opposition to any further migration from predominantly Muslim states is by no means confined to Trump's electorate in the U.S., but is fairly widespread."

Supporters of the German far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) hold a placard during an anti-immigration march in Riesa, Germany​

The urgent question for establishment parties "is whether or not those who support a ban on travel and immigration from Muslim-majority countries will lead nationalist parties to victory," said John Lloyd, a former editor of Britain's left wing New Statesman magazine and a fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. "The brief experience of the Trump presidency is that success, at least temporarily, goes to those who stay on the hard side of immigration politics," he argued. Europe's alt-right leaders have been energized by the change in leadership in Washington, and populist right-wing figures such as Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Britain's Nigel Farage and Matteo Salvini of Italy have heaped praise on Trump's travel ban, which is currently being contested in U.S. courts.

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[waltky]

Thought the Donald was gonna slow down the refugee influx?...

60% Jump in Refugees Admitted to U.S. from March to April
May 2, 2017 – With President Trump’s immigration executive orders still being held up by federal courts, the number of refugees admitted into the United States from around the world increased by 60.2 percent in April, with 3,316 arrivals compared to 2,070 in March.

The monthly tally is still the second smallest this fiscal year. The last time fewer than 4,000 admissions was recorded in one month – apart from March – was in November 2015, before the Obama administration launched a “surge” in early 2016 aimed at bringing in larger numbers of refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war. The April intake of 3,316 refugees marked a 43 percent drop from the figure for April 2016, when 5,857 were admitted. The president’s executive orders, issued in January and again in March, sought to block all refugees from entering the country for 120 days. The original one also placed an indefinite ban on the admission of refugees from Syria specifically, although that was dropped in the March version.

The admission of refugees from Syria in particular raised concerns because law enforcement leaders admitted there were limits to the extent security agencies could vet applicants from that country because of the ongoing civil war. According to State Department Refugee Processing Center data, 226 Syrian refugees were admitted in April, comprising 190 Sunnis (84 percent), 31 refugees identified simply as Muslims (13.7 percent), and five Christians (2.2 percent). Of the 226, 63 (27.8 percent) were males aged 14-50, and another 63 were females in the same age bracket. Twenty-seven (11.9 percent) of the Syrian refugees were older than 50, and 73 (32.3 percent) were under 14 – 39 boys and 34 girls.

Since the start of the Trump administration, a total of 1,447 Syrian refugees have been admitted into the United States. Of them, 98.4 percent were Muslims, 1.3 percent Christians and 0.2 percent Yazidis. The temporary refugee ban elements of both of Trump’s executive orders remain suspended, although the court rulings suspending implementation do not apply to a ceiling on 50,000 refugees overall to be admitted during FY 2017. Trump stated that allowing more than 50,000 during the year “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.” By contrast, the Obama administration admitted 84,994 refugees in FY 2016, and last fall informed Congress of a target of 110,000, almost 30 percent more, for this fiscal year.

By the time President Obama left office, a total of 30,122 refugees had arrived in FY 2017. Since Trump’s inauguration, a further 12,292 have arrived up until the end of April, for a total of 42,414. With the ceiling of 50,000, that means only 7,586 more will be eligible for resettlement from now until the end of September. Of the 3,316 refugees resettled in April, there were sizeable increases in the number of those coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo (607 refugees, up from 184 in March), Burma (489, up from 278 in March), and Iraq (463, up from 192 the previous month).

Those three countries accounted together for almost half of the total number of refugee arrivals in April. From the DRC, the vast majority – 581 or 95.7 percent – are Christians. The refugees from Burma arriving in April included 288 (58.9 percent) Christians, 106 (21.6 percent) Muslims and 92 (18.8 percent) Buddhists, while those from Iraq included 350 (75.6 percent) Muslims and 99 (21.3 percent) Christians. Other countries of origin of larger contingents of refugees arriving during April included Ukraine (269, up from 167 in March), Somalia (250, down from 335) Syria (226, down from 282) and Iran (167, up from 101).

60% Jump in Refugees Admitted to U.S. from March to April

 

[Meane]

They would be helped if it was allowed by the tyrants; Putin, Erdogan, Khamenei, Assad.