President Trump told the United Nations Tuesday that his administration prefers to resettle refugees as close to their homes as possible

[MonteRCMS]

President Trump told the United Nations Tuesday that his administration prefers to resettle refugees as close to their homes as possible, and can help more refugees that way because it costs more to bring them to the United States.

“We seek an approach to refugee resettlement that is designed to help these horribly mistreated people, and which enables their eventual return to their home countries, to be part of the rebuilding process,” Trump said in his first address to the U.N.

“For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region,” he said.

Trump said the U.S. is offering financial aid to hosting countries around the world, and said the U.S. wants to make sure refugees are resettled “as close to their home countries as possible.”

“This is the safe, responsible and humanitarian approach,” he said.

Trump said the U.S. experience is that uncontrolled immigration can lead to problems for both sending and receiving countries. He said countries that send their people abroad are drained of human capital and are under less pressure to reform.

 

[7_Sorrows]

Sounds like a good idea to me!

 

[Theo520]

This is in line with the UN agreement on refugees signed in the 50’s,
which was based on experience with the massive upheaval following WW2.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I have long thought this myself. I’m no expert on how the UN works, but it’s my impression the UN has a significant bureaucracy working on resettlement of refugees. It decides who is one and who isn’t, then calls upon recipient nations to take them.

Combine that with the seeming UN reluctance to get involved militarily to “carve out” resettlement areas nearer to the homes of the refugees, and one can easily end up with a lot of them being put into alien environments they won’t identify with, and burdening the citizenry of the recipient nations unduly.

 

[Theo520]

Yes, the original UN Agreement on Refugees was all about creating a safe space on the border, resolve the conflict, then send them home again.

The only people deserving of permanent relocation were persecuted minorities that would not be protected by their govt, or genuine political refugees. Economic refugees were sent back home.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Yes, the original UN Agreement on Refugees was all about creating a safe space on the border, resolve the conflict, then send them home again.

The only people deserving of permanent relocation were persecuted minorities that would not be protected by their govt, or genuine political refugees. Economic refugees were sent back home.

It seems to me the UN refugee program is out of hand. There probably isn’t a single person in Somalia who isn’t under threat of persecution by someone, if none other than the warlord in the next block who doesn’t like your warlord.

And there’s no way the UN can tell which Middle Eastern refugees are minorities, or they wouldn’t be sending so many non-minority people around to the exclusion of real minorities.