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Immigration officials said part of the reason for the seemingly lukewarm response was because many of the refugees were not prepared to move so quickly. They said such response rates are typical, and that applications had started to pick up as prospective refugees were given until the end of February to make the move. The first and most important factor, he said, is their family situation.
Many of the refugees have also been in their current living situations for years, whether that is a camp or a city like Beirut. De Angelis said those people have invested what little money they had into a hut or some other assets, and would want to sell them so they had money for their new lives in Canada.
“These people are in a desperate situation, but they’re not going to die tomorrow, because they’ve been like this for four years,” he said. “So it’s not like you’re in a situation of life or death where 24 hours makes a real difference. And it may take one or two months to take a proper decision.”
Planes are waiting.
The immigration officials also said they do not know exactly when the first chartered flight carrying hundreds of Syrian refugees will take off from the Middle East and fly to Canada. Documents published on a government website had suggested Dec. 10, but the officials said that is not set in stone.
Which is why Saudi needs to take them, or a safe district set up in Syria with barbed wire etc way out in the desert in a self contained city.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHY ANY OF THEM SHOULD BE SENT OUT OF SYRIA.
THEY ARE NOT REFUGEES.
Well they already are refugees in this case, they were refugees in Lebanon or Turkey in refugee camps. There's a reason they left Syria and that's because they either got tired of being bombed or trying to survive in the middle of a civil war or living under ISIS or Assad. The whole area in and around Aleppo has been basically depopulated since the war started. There's other Syrians living all over the Middle East or Europe or the US or Canada already who left for the same reason--they're just not considered refugees because they just came on their own--most wealthier Syrians just fled a while ago.
I understand people not wanting more refugees or immigrants to where they live and I agree the Saudis and Gulf States should do more to help out, but at the same time, stop promoting the stupid idea that these people aren't really fleeing anything.
Apparently, some don't want to come to the U.S. either.
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According to a new Gallup poll (The poll involved 1,002 face-to-face interviews with Syrians age 15 or older.), a tiny fraction of would-be Syrian refugees say their desired home lies in the United States or Canada. The survey, which was conducted in January through face-to-face interviews, found that only 6 percent of Syrians who said they were contemplating leaving their country imagined North America as their chosen destination.
An overwhelming majority, instead, envisioned their future in Europe or elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.
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