10,000th Syrian refuge – The United States should welcome Monday the 10,000th Syrian refugee in one year, one month before the date set by President Barack Obama, the White House said.
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Rice said the USA government has both increased refugee admissions and strengthened “the integrity of the refugee program, including its stringent security screening protocols”, over the past year.
The US ambassador to Jordan, Alice Wells, Sunday described the resettlement numbers as “a floor, not a ceiling”.
Preference is given to victims of violence, those with medical problems and children. The announcement came after the USA ambassador to Jordan, Alice Wells, told The Associated Press that several hundred Syrians would be departing from Jordan after Sunday.
Nearly 5 million Syrians have fled the Middle East since 2011.
Among developed Western countries, the number of refugees received by the United States has always been decried as pitiful Germany, for example, has already received more than 1 million refugees.
Some criticism focused on the miniscule proportion among the successful applicants who are Christians, Yazidis, or members of other minorities that have borne the brunt of atrocities carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) – atrocities which the administration has determined amount to genocide. The 10,000 are a significant increase over the 1,500 the US was on track to admit in 2015. The businessman has suggested the refugees coming to the USA could be members of the terror organization ISIS.
Hoyt says many Syrian refugees who have come to Rochester are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and fear what the future holds for them because of recent political rhetoric.
The US is the largest single donor to the Syrian crisis response, she said, adding that the country’s humanitarian assistance in Syria and the region has reached “nearly $5.6 billion so far, including almost $795 million for Jordan since …”
While the 10,000 refugees resettled in the U.S.is 25 times more than the number accepted the previous fiscal year, it still represents just a fraction of the more than 5 million people who are estimated to have been displaced by the five-year-old Syrian conflict.
But she reiterated her stance that blocking refugees based on their religion was misguided. “We’re going to have to keep discussing that”.
For some, 10,000 is too many. So far, it is expected that refugees will cost Germany €30 billion annually.
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Weise told the weekly that his agency is planning for between 250,000 and 300,000 arrivals this year. Berlin, which is a city-state, votes September 18.
