On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:23:01 -0700, graham > wrote:

>On 2017-01-12 12:07 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2017-01-12 12:00 PM, wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:30:46 -0500, Dave Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to see proof of that last statement, definitely not true
>>>>> of either refugees or immigrants in NS. I wonder though why it
>>>>> surprises me that you would say it.
>>>>
>>>> Are you serious? You know that refugee claimants are eligible for
>>>> welfare and for health care. The guy lost all his fingers. He is going
>>>> to have a hard time finding work. You know they won't turn him down now.
>>>> What is so hard for you to understand about that?
>>>
>>> That does not constitute proof. You assume he doesn't want to work.
>>
>>
>> I didn't say he had come here just to live off our welfare system. He
>> and his friend entered Canada illegally across the prairies in winter
>> and got lost and almost froze to death. He has lost all his fingers and
>> a couple toes and he may yet lose his arms. That is going to make it
>> difficult for him to find work.
>>
>>
>>
>>> He most likely does, he will maybe need some help to polish up his
>>> speaking and be shown the ropes, but after that, most go on to work.
>>
>> What is he going to use to pull on those ropes? He now has no fingers,
>> and he may not even have arms.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> They covered items recently about two of the refugee families who came
>>> to NS from Syria - one in Antigonish is successfully operating a
>>> chocolate making business but still needs translation by one of the
>>> kids! Another one I can think of set herself up as an online
>>> translator and is doing very well, not in the least concerned that all
>>> help ends around now for most of them. Did you even know that even a
>>> refugee only receives help for one year??? So much for languishing
>>> for all their life on our welfare system.
>>
>>
>> Great. Being refugees themselves, maybe the guy with the chocolate
>> factory will offer a job to the one with no arms.
>>
>>>
>>> It's so simple for people to parrot the common misconceptions about
>>> refugees and immigrants.
>>
>> Who is parroting misconceptions. I specified someone who almost froze to
>> death while sneaking across the border illegally. He is the author of
>> his own misfortune. I also pointed out the surge in Mexican refugee
>> claimants within the first month of the lifting of via requirements for
>> Mexicans, the visa requirements that had been put in place because we
>> were getting so many refugees claims from visiting Mexicans.
>>
>>
>Just to clarify: those two illegals were NOT Mexican, but a pair of African
>gays who faced persecution at home.

I didn't know that but yes in those circumstances they perfectly fit
the refugee status.