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发帖数: 4796 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: WCNMLGB (CCC), 信区: USANews
标 题: 奥巴马执政期间每月引进难民1万人，床铺削减5倍
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 5 13:29:29 2017, 美东)
每年12万难民，8年100万。这数字不是空穴来风。奥巴马是真穆斯林啊。
Refugee admissions tumble after Trump lifts ban
The number of refugees entering the U.S. has plummeted since President Trump
lifted a four-month ban on admissions.
Only 3,108 refugees came to the U.S. in October and November, the first two
months of the new fiscal year. The Obama administration admitted 18,300
refugees in the same period last year. The new numbers represent a dramatic
83 percent drop.
Trump restarted the refugee resettlement program in October. A month earlier
, he lowered the annual refugee admission cap rom 110,000 to 45,000, the
lowest level on record.
At the current rate, it's unlikely the Trump administration will
approach that number.
The limits on refugees are in addition to Trump's broader travel ban on
people from several countries. Trump promised during the presidential
campaign to "stop the massive inflow of refugees" to protect the
country from terrorists.
"The president's strategy on refugees is guided first and foremost
by the safety and security of the American people," Trump administration
spokeswoman Helen Aguirre Ferré told Fox News. "The United States can
also help a larger number of refugees by resettling them in their home
region and enabling their eventual safe return home."
Fewer Muslims are among the new refugees, according to published reports.
Muslims accounted for about 40 percent of refugees admitted into the United
States in November 2016. But this past November, the figure stood at 10
percent.
At the same time, the administration said it was backing out of a United
Nations initiative called the Global Compact on Migration, a declaration
established at the Generally Assembly in 2016 that called for two years of
negotiations focused on organized and safe migration of the world's
displaced people.
"The global approach in the New York Declaration is simply not
compatible with U.S. sovereignty," the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.,
Nikki Haley, said in a statement released over the weekend. "No country
has done more than the United States, and our generosity will continue. But
our decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and
Americans alone."
There are about 22.5 million refugees around the world, more than half of
them under the age of 18, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees.
Groups that work with refugees lamented the drop, saying the U.S. should not
scale back its support for people fleeing upheaval.
"It's tragic, really," said Linda Hartke, president and chief
executive of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which resettles
refugees. "It's tragic for refugees who've fled for their lives,
who are simply looking for the chance to be safe and provide for their
families and see their kids go to school and live in dignity."
She said to Fox News, "It hard for many Americans to understand why this
administration fails to see that we not only have an international
obligation to protect the most vulnerable, but an opportunity to demonstrate
American leadership."
As for the administration's withdrawal from the global talks on
migration, Hartke viewed it as bewildering.
"The global compact was an opportunity, including for our neighbors, to
be much more thoughtful about the flows of migrants, what's good for
this country and for our neighbors as well," Hartke said. "Having
these conversations in a global context is something we shouldn't be
afraid of."
Groups that favor tighter border controls called the Trump administration&#
39;s move a prudent one.
"We're coming to an age where you have so many failed states around
the world on multiple levels - politically, socially, economically,"
said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration
Reform. "It's going to be impossible to address these problems
through mass resettlement."
He said that globally, "we have to reconsider how we go about dealing
with the new reality."
"There are also new security threats," Mehlman told Fox News. "
All these things indicate we need to be cautious. It's obviously a
decision each country will have to make based on their own interests and
what they think they can manage."
Elizabeth Llorente is Senior Reporter for FoxNews.com, and can be reached at
[email protected] Follow her on Twitter @Liz_Llorente.
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