The ministers attended the opening of the new Syrian refugee processing centre in Amman where they met with both refugees and Canadian officials responsible for processing refugees, and reviewed the interview and screening process. Jordan is demanding billions of dollars in compensation for helping refugees settle, saying pressure on infrastructure and the economy has reached serious levels.
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While the Obama administration has proposed raising the number of Syrian refugees who can be admitted to the U.S.by as many as 10,000 a year, Brownback and about 30 other governors, nearly all of them Republican, have argued that an influx of Syrian refugees could pose a security threat.
Just over two months ago I began planning a trip over the Thanksgiving Weekend to visit with Syrian Refugees, Jordanian Government Officials, and NGO’s.
“We need to start teaching people how to be more hospitable toward each other…how to actually respect somebody with whom you disagree and have an intelligent discussion”, Carson said.
The Canadian government is concerned about a possible backlash against plans to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada, especially if the public thinks the newcomers were being “pampered”, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
Despite its high-profile effort to take in refugees, Canada is among the many culprits in underfunding the agencies that run camps such as Zaatari.
The U.S. plans to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country next year, which has ignited intense debate in recent weeks following terrorist attacks in Paris where one of the gunmen is alleged to have posed as a refugee. “Humanitarian assistance is not enough”.
“Many refugees fleeing Syria have lost everything they had and will not have any financial resources for some time”, Patry explained.
“The facilities that have been offered to them [refugees] here in Jordan are very satisfactory”.
“Poll numbers will go up and down”.
Afterward, he said refugees he spoke to, who were “quite content” in the camp, wanted to be able to return home and did not want to be resettled in the United States. Like pulling their sons out of school to send them to beg, like marrying [off] their younger daughters as a means of economic subsistence. “Bringing 25,000 refugees to the USA des nothing to solve this crisis”.
He said he believes “the United States has a responsibility, as the pentacle nation in the world, when you see something that’s about to create havoc, to do something about it and not to sit there and leave the responsibility for somebody else”. “We are indeed capable of getting this done fast, and more important, getting this done right”, McCallum said.
His wife, Eman, fights back tears when discussing the future of the family.
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Philpott said she was struck by the scope of the issue.
