So, what else is new?
I’ve been writing this blog since 2007 and I have never seen the UN say anything other than—take more, take more!
Since the US has a goal of 80,000 this year, this would indicate that the US is taking the lions share—again.
From the UN News Service:
4 July 2011 –
The United Nations refugee agency today called on countries to offer more resettlement places for the world’s most vulnerable refugees, warning that unless a deal is reached this year nearly 100,000 people will be left “in an agonizing limbo.”
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said 80,000 places for resettlement – offered to refugees who cannot return to their home countries or settle in the countries where they first claimed asylum – are currently available each year.
But as many as 780,000 refugees are estimated to be likely to need resettlement in the next five years, the agency warned in a press release issued from its headquarters in Geneva.
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Last year UNHCR presented more than 108,000 refugees for resettlement, and about 73,000 were eventually resettled with the assistance of the agency, with the most going to the United States.
Obama’s war in Libya isn’t helping the situation either.