On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:37:01 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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.

It must be so sad to be you! One thing you could do is learn the
difference between 'refugee' and 'immigrant' - Then if you check on
what coming here as an immigrant will cost, why you might even look
more favourably on some!