Welcoming Refugees

[Rob L 3,811]

Trump says our military is underfunded. Why would trump want to beef up our military if we're gonna have this very awesome huge wall? I mean a super terrific wall built by meth addicted toddlers should be enough to keep anything out, amirite?

"The Buuuteefull wall will have sensors below and above ground. The Border Guards will have nothing to do because nothing will leave or come across our borders, its so true, including the Rio Grand and those stupid iguanas, I hate those things"

[smilesammich 10,727]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2016/sep/13/why-does-resettling-a-refugee-cost-17000-in-the-us-but-85000-in-britain

looks like mostly the cost is so high when only factoring the short term..and uk doesn't have anywhere near as many private entities providing lodging. fixable, no?

The main thing is the method, says Stephen Hale, the head of Refugee Action, one of the main charities involved in the UK’s resettlement scheme. Of the 25,000 people resettled in Canada last winter, 43% of them were welcomed by private individuals, groups or churches. This meant that, although the Canadian government still covers the cost of the refugees’ education, welfare and healthcare, private individuals pay for their accommodation.

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Whereas, says Hale, everyone resettled in the UK is being housed by the government. Well, almost everyone: two families are being hosted by private sponsors, one of them the Archbishop of Canterbury.

But is this the whole story? Canada is still covering all the costs of 14,000 refugees. For those people, Canada is getting better value for money than Britain, who will pay roughly £1.2bn for welcoming the same number of people. That’s the same amount as the US paid to resettle 70,000 people last year. Germany, meanwhile, is likely to spend around £17bn on the 800,000 asylum seekers who arrived last year.

No two countries’ circumstances are the same, and comparing them is not always fair or useful. But if we examine the cost of an individual refugee for each of these countries, we find that a refugee in Germany costs the state about £21,000, while in the US the figure is £17,000 and in Canada it’s £16,000. In Britain, it is expected to be £85,000.

However, as Hale argues, this is also the wrong way of discussing the resettlement of human beings. “There’s two ways to approach it – you either look at it as a burden and try to minimise costs, or you look at it as an investment, and the more you invest, the more they can contribute to the country.”

Research by dozens of academics appears to bear this out: in the short term, resettled refugees cost the state money. But in the long term, they create jobs, pay taxes and generally contribute to the economy of their new homes. In the clearest summary of this research, Philippe Legrain, a former adviser to the president of the European commission, found that refugees who arrived in Europe last year could repay spending on them almost twice over within just five years. While the absorption of so many refugees may increase public debt by almost €69bn (£58bn) by 2020, during the same period refugees will help GDP grow by €126.6bn.

Edited September 16, 2016 by smilesammich

[Teddy B 17,252]

And our Generals are reduced to rubble.

Trump knows more about ISIS than the Generals do, believe me!

[Rob L 3,811]

Trump knows more about ISIS than the Generals do, believe me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Mjy9ETtRY

Only HE can fixit!

[Teddy B 17,252]

Only HE can fixit!

That's what many very, very good people are saying.

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

How many Syrian refugees are being welcomed in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Malaysia, Egypt, ...

[Janelle2002 3,865]

How many Syrian refugees are being welcomed in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Malaysia, Egypt, ...

Jordan was but it stopped. Jordan took refugees for 5 straight years and they are not lying. I had a friend from my university in Texas who went there to help refugees as part of an intern and research probject for educational psychology.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/syrian-refugees-suffering-jordan-border-160721024521992.html

Edited September 16, 2016 by Janelle2002

[Póg mo 1,749]

How many Syrian refugees are being welcomed in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Malaysia, Egypt, ...

Lebanon?

[Boiler 48,061]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummah

Seems the commands of Allah do not apply in this case, very confusing.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummah

Seems the commands of Allah do not apply in this case, very confusing.

Huh?

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

It's that Islam unites them as 1 entity a single community