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[Dill]

(12-30-2016, 07:42 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Our government bases their decisions on what refugees to accept on, surprise surprise, politics. A refugee fleeing a war-torn country like Syria is an easy decision after vetting because of the situation of their home. But someone fleeing other countries have to be looked at in the political capital that could be gained or lost through their acceptance. Their home country will find out, and by accepting them as a refugee our government is saying that their state is either incapable of protecting the person or complicit in the persecution. That is a diplomatic pond that has a thin layer of ice upon it which our government must tread.

I would love to see our government take every refugee that needed the help. Unfortunately, politics play a role in everything, and so it is a large factor in this.

LOL, that is why we are not accepting Christian "refugees" from Israel.

When I lived in Germany I helped an Assyrian (Chaldean) Christian apply for asylum at the US embassy on grounds of political persecution, because Saddam had killed some of his family. But that was in 1987-88, when Saddam was officially not a tyrant, but our bulwark against Iran, and the application was rejected. Germany granted him a temporary residence, but also refused to consider him a political refugee. He was eventually given US Asylum in the mid -90s, after Saddam was ejected from Kuwait. Last I heard he was living somewhere in Chicago.