It depends. If you take them from the camps near Syria, where they are fully documented and have all the required paperwork to prove who they are, and you bring them over until the conflict is over
I think it's a liberal emotional argument, though. They'll say it's islamophobic for us to question why rich, Arab countries (which are much more culturally suitable) refuse to take a single refugee. It's islamophobic for us to ask for proof of who they are, even though ISIS already made it clear that they would hide fighters in the waves of refugees.
Sort the problem out at the source. And stop blaming the west. The west is not to blame for Assad bombing his own people, supported by Russia.
Islamophobia isn't real and it shouldn't even be brought up. But you know, you can't force any of those Arab countries to take refugees...
Absolutely not. I don't want Islam/ISIS brought to my country and the problems that will manifest with the refugees would be astronomical. The fortunate part is where I live, our President stated that it would be impossible to integrate Muslims into our society which is a great thing. I'm a very patriotic person and I want my country to stay European so to speak.
I think Muslims should stay in designated countries unless they are willing to integrate (which most aren't).
I don't think any migrants would want to go to the Czech Republic because, despite being a relatively rich and progressive country, it's perceived as Eastern Europe. Lucky y'all
How did America contribute to this? There's a reason you don't see Libyan refugees around. Those guys are fleeing the Putin and Assad forces that are more concerned with bombing the moderate rebels and civilians than actually fighting ISIS.
I agree that America should be taking in Syrian refugees though. Just no men except the most intellectual ones.
I don't even have to go back that much in history:
Where did the civil war, revolutions, rebellions,... came from? In history it's always when the population is hungry, bad harvest, extra cold winter,... The credit crunch created the conditions for it.
Where did that credit crunch came from? 2 decades of deregularisation in Wall Street. London aspired to become a financial center and to attract the traders they have to be even less regulated than Wall Street and it turned into a race to the bottom. It created the possibility of putting subprime mortgages (lending money to people who surely could never pay it back) in shiny packages hiding it's true nature and the US sold it worldwide. When a French bank started wondering what's actually inside, the whole thing came crashing down.
If you want to revolt and you don't have a rich sugar daddy funding your adventure after resigning your current job, how do you do? That's where foreign assistance comes in and it was always a factor in history. They can provide you with a wage, a party office, printing costs of pamphlets, campaigning costs,...
What if family and friends can provide your food, bills and that office? And in 2016 we can go paperless on social media? Not so fast, American companies like Cisco sold the necessary infrastructure to the regime/dictator of the country to track your forum post down to the internet bill of your parents and it happens that your address is mentioned on that bill. These regimes/dictators can turn off the Internet in the country whenever they like.
Alright, pamphlets are necessary and it's harder to track the source down. Where do you begin? Foreign advisers are there to teach you populism, organizational skills,...
What if the population doesn't want to revolt? We agitate them till they run furiously outside. (The creation of Belgium can be tracked back to exactly which opera show (La Muette de Portici (The Mute Girl of Portici)) and date (25 August 1830) in Brussels that happened to contain French agitators doing this in the interests of France.)
What's in the deal for the US? Once you become the establishment, regime, leader,... you won't forget that you are only sitting there because of foreign assistance and are aware that foreign assistance can help one of the other factions in the country to rise up against you.
The US will preach free trade as in American companies selling stuff in your country, mining the resources in your country and getting rich of your country. There is a hamburger craze with big American size patties in the Middle East. Once the Arabs got fat from that, the US can sell them the American healthcare solutions and the liposuction too.
Governments/regimes handle the permits and law changes to make it much easier for foreign companies to get rich of your people.
What about Daesh (ISIS)? It's the former Saddam's army personnel and we all know that the US invaded Iraq to get rid of Saddam. No Iraq war in 2003, no Daesh (ISIS). It's as simple and directly connected as that.
What don't they fight in the current Iraqi army? That isn't something people want to die for, they are only there doing their 9 till 5 just for that pay check and nothing else.
Where did they got the weapons for more than a decade of violence? Back when the US invaded Iraq, Saddam's army know damn well that they were losing and opened the gates of the arsenals. Everyone come, come here, get your free guns, grenades, artillery shells, explosives, RPGs,... By dispersing it over the population, factions, parties, tribes,... it ensured that every angry person can grab some piece of military hardware to start an attack.
Where did Saddam came from in the first place? The US selected him from a lot of resumes because he was anti-Iran and the US needed someone to teach the freed Iranians a lesson by starting a war. The US organised the coups to get Saddam installed in Iraq and when Saddam was losing the war, Reagan sent Donald Rumsfeld to assure that the US will prop Saddam up with money, weapons and intel on the enemy.
From what where the Iranians freed? The Sjah installed by the US because Britain asked Eisenhower to do it. Why would the British do that? How dare the Iranians vote in the 50s for a politician wanting a more fair percentage of the oil money for his people (because the British were ripping his people off)! Britain couldn't afford to pay more at the gas station and called in Eisenhower's assistance.
Wait, we destroyed democracies because they dared to vote for their own good that happens to make us pay more at the gas station. That's where those dictators came from. How can we tell them with a straight face that this time we mean it with bringing democracy? Because they know that if they vote for their own good, they will get new dictators over themselves. What's even the point of a democracy if you want them to vote in the interests of a foreign power and letting themselves being ripped off?
From Iranian democracy in the 50s till Iraq War 2003:
It happens that the 2 countries responsible this mess, are also the countries hiding safely behind the English Channel and the Atlantic. Because they know damn well they started this mess and don't want to take the responsibility. Let the indecisive EU be overrun and has to figure out what's happening.
The US has a significant population of latin american refugees already.. it all comes down to geography and what countries are easier to get to.. america is an entire ocean away for syrian refugees.. europe is closer and better for them
The only refugees we should accept are children who are still malleable, atheists, and LGBT members. Everyone else must stay and try to fix the country.
