“The minute I get the passport, I will fly to Turkey“, said house painter Ali Mohammed, 33, one of those waiting in line this week.
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As Syria crumbles further, additional millions may flee. However, given the work Bethany has conducted before on behalf of refugees from countries around the world, I know there is so much more we can do. That’s why thousands of destitute Syrians are now exhausting their savings paying unscrupulous smugglers to spirit them into Europe. And they’re overwhelmingly trying to get to the European Union for the goal of getting designated officially as refugees.
It’s a gross understatement to say that refugees from Syria are devastated by what has become of their beloved country – thus far, more than 8 million have fled their country because of the fighting. They need migrants that are willing to do those low-skilled jobs, and that will bring new ideas and new ways of working.
“We are not going to be like the Palestinians in Lebanon, languishing in camps for decades and being denied basic civil rights”, said Mahmoud, a 23-year-old refugee from Aleppo, who is planning his journey to Europe. He said Turkey is turning “a blind eye” to those smuggling refugees.
In the wake of unthinkable violence, reportedly close to half of Syria’s population has fled their homes, more than 4 million taking refuge in neighbouring states that are struggling to support them. And Sweden has taken in 80,000, O’Brien said.
Syrian passports are hot property at the moment as Syrian refugees have priority in Europe. “His government has also offered subtle incentives to leave, such as an easier time obtaining a Syrian passport and less hassle booking flights to foreign countries”. German Vice-Chancellor Signor Gabriel has expressed the government’s exasperation, “Because of the speed of which large numbers people are coming in, Germany is approaching a situation where we are reaching our limits”.
Even prior to this, the world powers’ interactions with the volatile Middle East region has fostered unrest, stark divisions and is generally accepted by progressive analysts as a failure of both diplomacy and reason.
Students Organize for Syria (SOS), a national network for college students founded past year , has taken the refugee crisis as a call to arms to reinvigorate their campaign to raise awareness about the plight of Syrians and the need to assist them in their quest for a free Syria. The agency says among those making the crossing were 175,000 Syrians traveling via Turkey and Greece.
This means that Britain is about to import 400 trained and hate-filled ISIS killers among the 20,000 genuine asylum seekers the Government has pledged to take in. Furthermore, it implies that some people might not actually deserve asylum that they might be migrants pretending to be refugees, trying to abuse the system and European hospitality.
Unquestionably benevolent and undeniably risky, Germany has been the most welcoming of Western European countries to Syrians on the run.
So is the fantasy of creating safe zones for refugees along the Syrian-Turkish border.
But these host countries aren’t a permanent home.
The worldwide Organization for Migration is among the leading relief agencies that are responding. And 72,000 people have signed a Change.org petition urging the BBC to “use the correct term Refugee Crisis instead of Migrant Crisis”.
Obtaining passports is only the beginning, said several refugees outside the Syrian Embassy on Sunday.
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Europe’s POLITICO web site reported a French government source saying, “There is a more indirect link if you consider that this will have an impact on the stabilization of Syria and a possible way out of the war, which would have an impact on the migrants“.
