72% of refugees admitted into U.S. (2/3 -2/11) during COURT BREAKDOWN are from 7 countries: SYRIA, IRAQ, SOMALIA, IRAN, SUDAN, LIBYA & YEMEN
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 12, 2017
That’s because they are refugees. Refugees don’t come from Sweden and Canada and Japan.
Let’s consult the UNHCR on this point.
A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Most likely, they cannot return home or are afraid to do so. War and ethnic, tribal and religious violence are leading causes of refugees fleeing their countries.
Things are a little bit tough in Syria right now. That’s why there’s a Syrian refugee crisis. That’s why Syrians are a high proportion of refugees.
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7 responses to “Trump is horrified that many refugees are from Syria”
Maybe there should a simple math test before becoming president. that would be a good way to weed out the ignorant without appeal to opinion based answers.
So – ISIS (bad hombres, clearly) are killing people in Syria. People – not ISIS – who are in Syria, may be killed if they remain, and don’t want to be killed, seek refuge. But those are the people he’s particularly, specifically, exceptionally alarmed about letting into the U.S., even after months of thorough vetting. ISIS, they’re quite happy where they are and busy. Their enemies – their intended victims – are the ones he’s so anxious to keep penned up waiting to get victimized.
No wonder ISIS and Al Queda are so delighted, but he really ought to be making his allegiances a little less obvious.
Who are the sick people (or hopefully bots) that ‘heart’ these tw**ts?
They’re the same monsters that think he’s doing a great job and putting the country on the right track (while ignoring the sucking sound that is their economic future).
I would have thought that “helping refugees” was the floor.
And where are the other 28% coming from?
There, fixed it.