The #UnitedStates has allowed >40k #refugees into the country in the first 5 months of the fiscal yr after they passed a rigorous, often yearslong, #screening process that includes #security & #medical#vetting & interviews w/ American officers overseas.
…#immigration advocates fear that the [#Biden refugee program] gains will be wiped out if #Trump is elected. Trump has vowed to suspend the program if he takes office again, just as he did in 2017….
Trump has characterized the program as a #security threat, even though #refugees go through extensive background checks & screenings. He reassigned officers, shuttered overseas posts & slashed the number of refugees allowed into the country every yr.
New instance, new #introduction: Hello! I'm Abdi 👋🏾 Software engineer/data scientist in NYC. Former #refugee. Lover of greenery/gardens, board games, #movies, #cycling, autumn, Japanese food, and #tea. Fortunate to have done a lot of #travel
#Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly — the only other person in the Oval at that moment… — rushed out to find Secy of State Rex Tillerson, who had made clear he would oppose cutting the funds.
That left #NikkiHaley w/a much-sought opportunity: direct access to Trump. In the moments that followed, she successfully pushed him toward a decision that could deplete resources for #food, #education & other services for millions of #Palestinian#refugees, incl’g #girls & young #women she had met….
In this article for @medium I write the history of the millions of displaced persons left in DP camps for years as they waited for a country to take them in because they were afraid to go home to a totalitarian regime.
As Enver Solomon of the Refugee Council notes the UK's #refugee & migrant 'crisis' 'is about who we are as a country & who we want to be. It is about standing up for the right to asylum, giving people a fair hearing & treating them with the dignity & humanity they deserve'!
The #Tories are the worst of us, default to inhumanity for all except their chums & lack any compassion for those in danger (again unless its their chums).
'There are substantial grounds for believing that the removal of the claimants to Rwanda would expose them to a real risk of ill-treatment by reason of refoulement' [repatriation to the countries from which they fled].
Unfortunately for the #Tory right (but likely to be ignored by them) the ruling is not only based on our membership of the #ECHR, but on a range of international commitments & a decisive intervention by the UN Refugee Agency.
@msquebanh
A lot of confidence in mainstream leaders and faith in the legitimacy of international conventions and international law is being burnt by the ongoing killing of noncombatants in Gaza.
How many children need to be killed before 'enough is enough' happens?