Something I haven't heard explained with all the refugee talk is where they're gonna live. Have about 50,000 homeless veterans in the US as it is. We can't find them a home, but can find homes for 10,000 Syrians? Are we building brand new places or something? What about diseases they're bringing in? These aren't the most sanitary places on Earth so are we putting them into quarantine first at least? What about education, jobs, language training, and cultural assimilation? Are they just getting a handshake and "good luck to you?" This all costs money, takes time, and there are more deserving recipiants for a top-to-bottom handout.
Like our homeless veterans.
It's not a zero-sum issue. Helping on group doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't help the other. Are we that limited?
Only takes one more infiltrator and whoever supported briging them in will have a really uncomfortable time explaining it afterwords. Assuming they get a chance to...
There are criminals, nuts and terrorists amongst us already - most incidents of mass violence in this country are domestic. Refusing to take in refugees who are fleeing for their lives isn't going to make a difference and taking in refugees and monitoring them appropriately - will have no effect on the homeless rates of veterans. It comes down to what we are and want to be as a country.
Sure, have our own crazies as it is, so we shouldn't ask for more from elsewhere.
Bottom line is what happens after they're here? Not like they're bringinng their wealth along with them
. They're gonna form self-imposed exile communities because they wont want or be able to assimilate. They're not that kind of culture or people. They're gonna live in shantytowns where they can live amongst their own kind and clash constantly with us and our laws binding them nonetheless. That's going to cause resentment and breed extremism as they only cluster tighter together against "outside influences."
This is absolutely what's going to happen. If they didn't have infiltrators already, they'll grow their own as they demand to be left alone like the Amish, and we'll probably let them.
Not necessarily. We'd have to provide the support they need to adapt and understand our culture, get jobs etc - just like any other refugee group. Syria was once one of the better educated Middle Eastern countries before the civil war with a substantial professional middle class.
How do you "know" that is going to happen or is that an assumption? We already have Syrian-American communities - long established.
Europe Refugee Crisis Facts: Wealthy, Educated Syrians Risking Lives To Leave War
More than half -- 53 percent -- of the 380,412 people who have arrived in Europe since January are from Syria, the United Nations reported Wednesday.
Syrians are different from other refugees in that they are far more likely to come from professional backgrounds than refugees originating in African countries like Eritrea, for instance, according to migration experts.
...Donohoe said many of the refugees living in camps in Lesbos, Greece -- one of the most popular arrival points for refugees and migrants -- had smartphones. At least a few people could speak English on every boat arriving to Lesbos, meaning that many of them likely had a formal education or came from an upper middle-class background, he said.
Doctors, bankers and Syrians from other high-paying professions have been among the arrivals. Several of the refugees interviewed by the International Business Times had university educations, and
one pair of brothers had worked in investment banking in Syria and were looking to do the same in Europe.
On the eve of the civil war in early 2011, Syrian GDP per capita was as
high as $5,000, more than double what it was in neighboring Pakistan and Yemen, and five times as much as the average GDP per capita in Afghanistan. By 2013, Syria's GDP dropped by 20.6 percent. World Bank authorities have not been able to collect economic data in Syria since 2014 because of the chaos in the region, and experts estimate that the GDP has continued to plummet.
Even the other arab nations don't want them citing security concerns. If KSA, Kuwait (our bitches) don't wanna take them, shouldn't we take that as a clue who we're talking about? Not liek Syria is a northern European socialist mecca. They've been terrorists against Israel since its inception. These are not warm and fuzzy Muslims.
The Gulf States aren't taking any refugees period but they're willing to give them temporary work visas.