USA takes in 5 million Syrian refugees. How feasible is this?
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The Last Northerner
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« on: March 25, 2016, 01:58:10 AM »

Let's pretend Obama has a lapse. He's not running for re-election and doesn't care about the political consequences. Europe is not equipped to deal with the current refugee crisis and Obama says 'We'll take em'. He signs an executive order taking 5 million refugees outside Syria over the course of... say 10 years. That would be roughly 500,000 refugees per year out of a population of 325 million.

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There are some reasons why the United Staets could handle them better than any European nation states.

1. It has a strong mass surveillance state and should be able to better screen for possible threats.

2. There's more people and land so it wouldn't create the same mass imbalance as Europe. There would be more cities for the refugees to be settled and they would be more spread out.

3. American Muslims appear better intergrated than US Muslims. Do highly educated Muslims pick the US to go to vs less educated Muslism in the Europe (I'm guessing). Perhaps I am putting the cart before the horse but something in the US appears better at this.

4. Ethnoreligious communitarianism and religious extremism are already rooted in the US.

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Do you think this is a feasible idea or just left-leftist gibberish? I'm just throwing this out there.
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2016, 05:54:48 AM »

You think Trumpettes are pissed off now?  Good Og man, this would be the line in the sand for a lot of them.
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« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2016, 10:47:03 PM »

You think Trumpettes are pissed off now?  Good Og man, this would be the line in the sand for a lot of them.

We could always organize for some kind of trade.
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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2016, 10:53:29 AM »

You think Trumpettes are pissed off now?  Good Og man, this would be the line in the sand for a lot of them.

We could always organize for some kind of trade.

I would happily trade Syrian refugees 1 to 1 or even to 1 to 2 or 3 Trump voters.

As for this suggestion, usual I wouldn't support it, but the hypocrisy of Americans on this issue make me support it.

Funny fact; Södertälje Municipality (population 83,600) in Sweden have taken in more Iraqi refugees than USA and Canada combined.
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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2016, 11:39:41 AM »

Regular immigration has fallen from 1.5 million per year in the mid-1990s to just 900,000 in 2013 and keeps slowly trending downward.


Refugee settlement goes pretty smoothly in the U.S. as far as I know, so as long as our agencies properly plan and allocate resources, there should be very few problems.


But of course, this isn't politically feasible.
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