Take Care of Our Veterans First..Un to send 13,000 Burundi refugees to settle in US
Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:58 PM
More wasted funds that could and should be spent on our Veterans before the money goes to non-citizens!!!
While I do have compassion for refugees, if people run away from their homelands than things will never change.
Look at the UN rationale for 13,000 Burundis' to be shipped to the US:
"They are to be allowed to resettle in the US as part of a massive scheme to reduce the number of displaced people in Western Tanzania, the UNHCR said. "
"Most of the Burundian refugees in Tanzania came between 1993 and 1996," Mr Corliss explained, "however, this particular group had actually lived outside the country for 34 years."
"Many of them don't have access to land, many of them have never seen Burundi, they were born outside of the country.
"In their case, it was considered that they would face particular reintegration problems if they went home," he said.
Ok, so lets get this straight, the African Union, African National Congress, and their other countries on the continent will not take them, they have been outside of their own country for 34 years, and this is the kicker, moving them to the US to live on our tax dollars they somehow will have access to land? Coming all the way to the US they will not "face particular reintergration problems"?
If we are bringing everyone here (on our tax dollars) than I move to cutoff the foreign aid money spicket to those countries where the refugess are coming from.
The problems in your home country are not mine....Stay home and fight for change.
Here is the link to the BBC Article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6058288.stm