Remember the Syrian refugees triumphantly greeted in Canada and paraded around as proof of Canadians’ superiority to evil Americans? Remember also how I said that refugees will be prevented from integrating?
Guess who was right.
From a recent article on what has been happening to the refugees since Trudeau slobbered all over them at the airport:
Some government-sponsored Syrian refugees staying at a budget hotel in Toronto say they feel like they’re “trapped in a prison” without hope due to a lack of communication, supplies and assistance.
. . .
The refugees have been at the hotel for weeks and have no idea when they will be able to leave. Some of the 85 government-sponsored refugees say they’re not getting much help, and would rather go back to their refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon.
. . .
“We’re worried, first of all, that we’re facing a major mental-health crisis if somebody doesn’t start going in there and speaking to them every single day to find out if they are doing OK. For the past week and a half, and in one case there’s a guy who’s been there for a month, and no one has been talking to them.”
. . .
Abu-Rukti added many of those who came with her were getting more help in Lebanon and Jordan.
“They used to provide for their families, but now they feel like they can’t do that and they’re hopeless.”
. . . .
“They’re scared, it must be very scary,” she said. “I don’t expect them to feel gratitude immediately when they’ve come here — they’re really so isolated … their kids are dying to go outside and play and they can’t.”
Notice how fishing for gratitude is the shamelessly declared goal here. The Canadian in question obviously feels super noble and magnanimous for accepting that gratitude will not be immediate.
“I feel even though we chose to come out to Canada and it was something that we chose to do, it was our right and we chose it, however, it’s not what we expected and it’s not what we thought we would come into,” said Abu-Rukti.
“Maybe this isn’t where I should be. Another lady asked to return and the Canadian Embassy said: ‘There is no way you guys can return now.'”
Yeah, I mean, you got to stick around whether you want to or not and be exuberantly grateful in order to please the nice, bored Canadian ladies with nothing else to do but condescend to you. Just like I said from the very start.
This could all be resolved extremely easily: give people their papers, set them up with language classes, make sure they have the amount of money that Canada has officially calculated as necessary per each immigrating adult (I think today it’s $7,500), and leave them be. In short, treat them like all the rest of immigrants Canada welcomes every year.
But don’t lock them up as if they were some sort of rabid animals to be gawked at on regular occasions. It’s shocking that Canada would all of a sudden start imitating Europeans in their obviously flawed approach.
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Part of the refugee problem in the Toronto hotels is an organizational screw-up over the services which these folks require.
“Between now and March, Ottawa needs 300 rooms daily in each of the two cities to house about 600 refugees per night, according to a notice posted Friday on government procurement website. Suppliers will also be expected to provide meals.
The length of stays will vary: some will leave the next morning, others will need “two or more nights.””
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/government-hotel-bill-for-refugees-expected-to-near-80-million-by-march
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Immigrants come to Canada every day. There is a system in place that works really well to accommodate them. But it’s not being used in this case because the role these particular immigrants are to play is different.
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On a related note, the German media have been running stories the past few days about a recent phenomenon of Iraqi refuges voluntarily leaving Germany to go back to Iraq. Some articles claim this is motivated by recent victories against ISIS in Iraq, but most (including the one linked below) claim that the refugees are disillusioned with the poor living situations (crowded refugee centers) and complete lack of opportunities for them in Germany.
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/fluechtlinge-in-berlin-immer-mehr-iraker-kehren-freiwillig-zurueck/12870508.html
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At least, they are allowed to leave, unlike the ones trapped in Canada.
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The people whose enjoyment of feeling superior is strong enough to make them want more immigrants are a very vocal minority which is overrepresented on Internet. At least, I think it’s (already?) true for Europe. Am not sure about Canada.
The silent majority in Europe is against more migrants, but it’s still quite silent except for voting for more Right wing parties. I am curious who will win in German elections in 2017.
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\ At least, they are allowed to leave, unlike the ones trapped in Canada.
Clarissa, the Germans are simply telling themselves nice fairy-tales in which all migrants disappear somewhere whether to their home countries or to the moon. Like that song goes “Tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies (Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)”. In practice, record numbers are migrating to Europe, specifically to Germany. cliff linked an article about that just a few days ago.
In contrast to your claim that Germans enjoy feeling superior and thus welcome migrants, most Germans seem to be unhappy about Merkel’s policies:
The poll of 1,203 people over January 12 to 14 also found that a majority (56 percent) are now dissatisfied with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policies, up from 49 percent in December.
Seven people in 10 fear the influx will lead to more crime, compared to 62 percent in October.
And a growing minority, now at 42 percent from 33 percent in October, say they fear their cultural values are under threat.
http://www.thelocal.de/20160115/poll-shows-most-germans-fear-refugee-burden-too-great
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If they were truly unhappy about it, it wouldn’t be happening.
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None of the Germans that I talk to — and I know quite a few — are AT ALL happy with the flood of refugees/immigrants into their country. They see their traditional European culture as being inexorably diluted and replaced with alien values.
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“………But don’t lock them up as if they were some sort of rabid animals to be gawked at on regular occasions……..”
You have been misinformed, the gawking is accomplished at rather irregular intervals.
I know this. Having been evil in a previous life, I am now committed to spending what is tantamount to a Joycian eternity in the frozen wastelands of Soviet Canuckistan.
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I don’t like to be conspiratorial but I wonder if the US government is putting pressure on Canada behind the scenes to keep the Syrian refugees sequestered in the Toronto hotels.
“The U.S. Senate’s homeland-security committee has scheduled a hearing next Wednesday titled: “Canada’s Fast-Track Refugee Plan: Unanswered Questions and Implications for U.S. National Security.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/01/26/us-congressional-panel-to-scrutinize-canadas-refugee-plan.html
Also Canadian MP Michelle Rempel has been quoted as saying, “I think it’s incumbent on the Canadian government to assure our largest ally to the south that the screening processes we have put in place are adequate … Not just for their purposes, but for assuring the Canadian public that all rigour and processes have been put in place.”
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