On 2018-01-12 5:21 AM, Bruce wrote:

> Europe should have helped them closer to their own region. It's
> nonsense to let big numbers of refugees into already densely populated
> countries. Also, it's going to take decennia to explain to these
> people that gays aren't pigs and that women who smile at you aren't
> prostitutes.

We currently have a prime minister who panders to the immigrant vote
and, despite our country bringing in 10,000 refugees per year... vetting
them, paying their way here and housing them, he pledged to bring in
25,000 by the end of that year. On top of that, we have at least 15,000
more who come here as visitors and then when they arrive they claim
refugee status.

We have a third safe country deal that means refugee claimants coming
from a safe country will not be admitted, but that applies only at
regular manned crossing, so now we have then streaming across the
borders from the US. Most of them are being rejected because they are
no legitimate refugees. The are economic migrants and they are fleeing
the US because special programs that allowed them to stay in the US
after disasters in their homeland are ending. Ours already ended.

What we should be doing is assisting with housing them in areas closer
to home so that they can return when things calm down back home. We
should only be giving them visas to allow them to stay, or permanent
residence, not citizenship.

A lot of them are more interested in citizenship and a passport than in
living here. There are many thousands of middle easterners living and
working overseas, mainly in the middle east, with American and Canadian
passports. They are citizens of convenience.

Canada fast tracked thousands of Lebanese to citizenship because of
conflict at home. A few years back, when Israel pounded Lebanon, we had
55,000 "Canadians" who were screaming to be evacuated from Lebanon.
They were mostly those who had come here for citizenship and then
returned to their homeland. We spent millions to rescue those citizens
of convenience and shortly after things settled down back in Lebanon
most of them went back there to their real homes.