This is a short piece at WNYC News. You might want to listen to Carey’s interview (I didn’t) about the International Rescue Committee’s wish to start bringing in the Syrians. They always make it sound like it’s the refugees’ idea to ‘seek safety’ in America when it’s really the contractors, like the IRC, looking for new and diverse clients.
While Syria’s civil war has ravaged the country for more than two years, very few Syrians refugees have sought safety in the United States. The New York-based International Refugee [Rescue] Committee says that may be poised to change, however.
Bob Carey is the International Refugee Committee’s vice president for resettlement and migration policy. He says many refugees were initially reluctant to go far from home because they still held on to hopes that the conflict would be resolved. Now, he said, the government infrastructure for resettlement is working to identify those who most need refuge.
Here is more about Bob Carey, one of those 6-digit employees whose salary you pay!
A commenter sums up what the average American is thinking!
Malcolm
Great…That’s all we need now is to import the very same people who destroyed their own country. The Arabs have 22 countries of their own to choose from. None of them can accept the refuges? If none can, what does it say about their failing culture?
The International Rescue Committee is one of the nine major federal contractors resettling refugees to your cities and towns.
Endnote: If anyone has the time to listen to his interview, let us know if he says anything other than the same old verbiage about why it’s our “humanitarian” duty to bring Syrians to the US.