I simply do not understand the do-gooder UN and its allies in the refugee industry here in America! Last week I posted about the Burmese refugee washing dishes in Orlando (probably at Disney World!). Why are we bringing thousands of former Burmese freedom fighters here? Will someone tell me why they aren’t left in Burma (Myanmar) to stand side by side with brave monks and work to free their country from brutal military rule?
Here is a new article today from the New York Sun.
ON THE THAI-BURMESE BORDER — A cramped bamboo hut, a monthly rice ration, and listless days inside the Thai jungle are the lot of former Burmese guerrilla fighters and underground activists awaiting resettlement to America and Europe.
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At a refugee camp three hours’ walk from the border with Burma, those who spent their 20s and 30s resisting one of the world’s most repressive governments are now largely quarantined from playing an active role in the events of their native country. That sense of isolation was most acute, they say, in August and September, when street demonstrations back home swelled into the largest popular challenge to the rule of Burma’s military junta in decades.
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American laws generally prohibit members of any armed resistance movement from receiving refugee status. Nonetheless, American immigration officials say each application is considered on a “case by case basis.” In the last year, 13,896 Burmese were resettled in America as refugees.
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But not all living here intend to leave.
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“If there is a way to fight against the regime at the moment, I prefer to take part in that,” an officer for the political wing of the Karen government, Sah Wan Tha, who has lived in the camp for a decade, said.
I suspect, the do-gooders in the refugee resettlement industry are wimps themselves and could not possibly understand that someone would prefer to stay and fight for their country rather than wash dishes in Orlando while living in a squalid apartment. Or, could it be that each refugee represents continued pay checks for the the UN and the volags?
I’m still waiting for someone to tell me why we are doing this.