UN: Just 0.4% of refugees are ‘emergency level’ requiring removal
UN: Just 0.4% of refugees are ‘emergency level’ requiring removal
by Paul Bedard
| March 20, 2018 03:05 PM
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Advocates for tighter immigration and refugee laws on Tuesday recommended that only those facing immediate danger be granted refugee status in the United States, potentially a vast reduction in those that are picked by the United Nations to settle here.
At a conference to discuss the liberal refugee system, Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, called for a change to just helping those in immediate need to evacuate their country.
“The point of refugee resettlement should be a last resort for people who literally cannot stay where they are for a second longer,” he said.
Krikorian said that only those “emergency” cases should be the ones coming to the United States. “Those are the people who should be resettled.
In its latest report on its program, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees revealed a stunning statistic on those emergencies.
Just 281 of the over 118,000 refugees, or 0.40 percent, the United Nations has dispatched to safe nations around the world, most to the United States, actually faced threats requiring their immediate removal.
The U.N. said of them, “This emergency level applies to cases in which the immediacy of security and/or medical condition necessitates removal from the threatening conditions within a few days, if not within hours.”
The U.S. took in 62 percent of refugees from several nations where the United Nations has operations, according to a well-researched report.It was written by Nayla Rush, a senior researcher for the Center for Immigration Studies. "The refugee system is indeed broken," she concluded.
The U.N. said most refugees fall in the “Normal” category and don’t face any emergency threat.
“The majority of cases fall within this category. This level applies to all cases where there are no immediate medical, social, or security concerns which would merit expedited processing. UNHCR expects decisions and departure within 12 months of submission,” said the agency’s handbook quoted by Rush.
Refugee admissions hit a peak under former President Obama. President Trump has set a cap of 45,000.
CIS suggests that instead of shipping refugees to Europe, Australia and the United States, they should be placed in a new home closer to where they come from.
Sending refugees thousands of miles from home, said Krikorian is “an absurd idea.” He added, “The whole point of refugee resettlement should not be virtue signaling on the part of the United States, which unfortunately too much of it is, but rather last resort protection for people who have no other options.”
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