The whole UN/US Refugee Admissions Program needs to be redirected to do this: Protect refugees close to their home countries and repatriate them as soon as possible.
The US is too quick to bring (expensive) refugees to the US for PERMANENT resettlement disrupting their cultures and disrupting American towns and cities.
From UNHCR News (Hat tip: Joanne):
SOUTH DARFUR, Sudan – Mother of six Hamila fled insecurity in Darfur a decade ago, seeking safety in the neighbouring Central African Republic, or CAR.
But this week, she was among more than 230 former refugees returning home on a UNHCR flights from a camp near Bambari.
“I am so happy for the chance to return to Sudan, especially for my children,” said Hamila, who had four more children while in exile. “Even if we face challenges at least we will be in our home country, among our relatives.”
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Should redirect US efforts to helping refugees in-place and creating a repatriation fund! (a huge bargain) Remembering all the while that in-place aid has to be very limited in amount and time span because we do not want to create US welfare islands in Africa and elsewhere, no doubt with their teeming inhabitants angry at us because we are not providing enough goodies. We also have to keep in mind that we are really no longer a 'rich nation,' but, thanks to our endless far-off wars, a multiracial multicultural strife-torn empire that is obscenely in debt.Yes, with a rising European American populism that is encouraging.
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