Stop the Hypocrisy! US Should Pay for Europe’s Refugee Crisis!

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http://watchingamerica.com/WA/2015/10/09/stop-the-hypocrisy-us-should-pay-for-europes-refugee-crisis/



By only taking in 5,000 to 8,000 Syrian refugees, the U.S. is way off the mark, and setting a 2016 deadline for receiving refugees just adds to the irony of Europe’s current refugee crisis!

Stop the Hypocrisy! US Should Pay for Europe’s Refugee Crisis!
Published in Xinhua (China) on 27 August 2015 by Lei Manyu [link to original]
Translated from Chinese by Fiona Donnelly. Edited by Bora Mici.
Posted on October 9, 2015.

Confronted with the evermore critical migrant crisis in Europe, American officials have finally spoken. On Aug. 24 in Washington, the official statement said that the U.S. would accept between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016.

Does the U.S. government know how many Syrian refugees there are currently? United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has said that by July this year, the number of Syrian refugees had already reached 4 million and that by the end of the year, the number could increase to 4.27 million.

Does the U.S. government realize how many refugees are risking their lives to sneak across the border into Europe? According to a report published by the European border management agency, in July of this year alone, 107,500 refugees arrived at Europe’s borders, while at least a few thousand have drowned at sea while trying to enter Europe illegally. As the country that instigated the chaos in the Middle East — content in another corner of the Atlantic Ocean — the U.S. actually pompously stated that in response to a request from the U.N. Refugee Agency, it will accept between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016. Does America not find this hypocritical, shameful, or even disgraceful?

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Confronted with this surge in the tidal wave of refugees, shouldn’t America be doing some profound soul-searching? Does it still have any grounds to continue living easily on the other side of the ocean, watching the fires burn from the safety of its own shores? By only taking in 5,000 to 8,000 Syrian refugees, the U.S. is way off the mark, and setting a 2016 deadline for receiving refugees just adds to the irony of Europe’s current refugee crisis! America needs to lose its mask of hypocrisy and genuinely take responsibility for the refugee crisis, and while taking practical steps to stabilize the situation in the Middle East, America really should provide some real money, make some space, and arrange a way to foot the bill for the resettlement of large numbers of refugees!