Here they come! State Department announces that 9,000 Syrians are on the way to the US
Anne Richard, Asst. Secretary of State went to that UN meeting in Geneva this week (we mentioned the “pledging conference” here) and dropped the bomb. The UN has picked our Syrians for us, and if the war ended tomorrow, you can be sure that once the pipeline is flowing it won’t stop for years! Security is a big concern and apparently the reason for the delay, but we are taking them anyway!
Anne Richard Asst. Sec. of State for Population, Refugees and Migration: We take the refugees the UN picks for us.
From the Los Angeles Times (emphasis is mine):
The U.S. government intends to dramatically accelerate efforts to resettle refugees from the Syrian civil war and is preparing for a “surge” of thousands in each of the next few years, State Department officials announced this week.
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They have some catching up to do: The United States has so far accepted only 300 of the more than 3.2 million refugees who have fled Syria since the war began almost four years ago.
The United States is the world leader in refugee resettlement, accepting 70,000 displaced people a year, more than all other countries combined.
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But the U.S. has come under criticism from aid groups for its pace in taking in refugees from the Syrian war, which is by far the largest refugee crisis of recent years. ...
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