[NetBehaviour] from Mother Jones -

[Alan Sondheim]

But the refugees ARE a European problem, and France was in the mid-east as 
well, England had its empire, Belgium its Leopold. You keep going after 
blame after blame after blame. Why not ask why the US is doing little? 
Apparently it's giving a lot more aid than other countries (think that was 
in the Guardian, I might be able to track the source down) combined. And 
Europe would not be taking refugees in, were they not coming across "its" 
borders. That's not the case here; what is the case is the horrific 
xenophobia which is placing the U.S. under lockdown. I see lots of calls 
for humanitarian support and aid, very little for bringing refugees over - 
I'm also not sure how that would be done, where they would come from - and 
this in the case of brutal opposition to the 11 million (apparently) 
undocumented workers/migrants here from central and south America - which 
is obviously far more than the total migrants to date in Europe. I'd like 
to see ALL refugees everywhere legalized; I can't do anything re: Europe, 
but we voice our opposition here to the Republican party and its proto- 
fascistic take on the world. That's pretty much all I can say about it.

- Alan

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Ana Vald?s wrote:

> 
> We see in the whole European world ppl gathering in supporting the refugees
> biking to Calais from London with tents food and medicines in Stockholm
> where I lived for almost my whole adult life thousands of families are
> offering to open their houses to refugees.
> And I am talking about a country with a xenophobe party with almost one
> million voters.
> Alan and the Americans in this list what are the US doing? I don't mean the
> government but the ppl where are the rallies to help the refugees from the
> Middle East, a region in turmoil since the wars started by the US and their
> geopolitical strategies?
> The refugees can't be an European problem.
> Ana
> 
> El sep 4, 2015 2:39 PM, "Alan Sondheim" <sondheim at panix.com> escribi?:
> 
>
>       Germany is set to take in 800,000 refugees by the end of the
>       year.
>
>       America, a country that won two World Wars, went to the moon,
>       and did "the other things," has taken in, well, far fewer.
>
>       Quoth the Guardian:
>
>           The US has admitted approximately 1,500 Syrian refugees
>       since the beginning of the civil war there in 2011, mostly
>       within the last fiscal year. Since April, the number of admitted
>       refugees has more than doubled from an estimate of 700.
>           ...
>
>           Anna Greene, IRCs director of policy & advocacy for US
>       programs, said the 1,500 people the US has admitted thus far
>       doesnt even begin to scratch the surface of what is needed and
>       what could really make a difference.
>
>       Oxfam wants the US to up that number to 70,000 by the end of
>       2016.
>
>       Correction: This post and its headline originally said that
>       Germany planned to take in 800,000 Syrian refugees by the end of
>       the year. That is incorrect. It is 800,000 refugees total.
>
>       - Alan
>
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