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Apple Accepting Red Cross Donations Through iTunes to Support Migration Crisis
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Based on the comments in this thread ...I don't think anyone her e watches Fox News
I have it on as background noise several hours a day. Fascinating how they construct a narrative across their shows.
Exactly, this article is a couple years old but we all know CEO pay only rises way faster than the pay for everyone else so if anything they are making much more: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-non-profit-salaries-20130924-story.html
No just like I wouldn't take any bare electronic Item without notification. But I'd take it into school and show my teacher.
I agree with most you have said. I was a legal assistant in a refugee law firm for several years and it really opened my eyes up to the mindset of economic refugees. We dealt with war criminals from middle eastern countries and former Taliban. The irony being that the x-Taliban was one of the nicest men I had ever met, face to face but we all knew the lies and what he was likely quite capable of. We used to get refugees that wouldn't be off the plane 2 hours after arrival, asking me where various tourist sights were, explaining that they wanted to see it before they were denied status and sent back. They knew ahead of time their cases were false. It was a vacation where many did send home the money they made living on welfare, not paying rent and working under the table to families. They went home far better off than before they had left. In many cases, they even told me that it would cost too much for them to come live in a Western country on their own and pay to have English lessons but the 2-4 years that it took each case to wind through the system, they went home with a far better ability to speak and understand english and could command far better jobs and salaries. I had one fellow tell me it was a free University for him. They made the mistake in thinking we supported their "ideas" because we had to support them legally.
In my opinion, they stopped being refuges and became economic migrants when they refused to stay in the nearest stable nation over their pursuit of a wealthier nation with maximum benefits of welfare.
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The news report that caused me to laugh and shake my head more than any other, was one showing some Muslims converting to Christianity as if to imply they were grateful to their host country.
Um, no. They convert as they cannot be sent back legally by the country that takes them in. To convert from Islam is considered a death sentence. Western nations cannot send back refugees when it's been confirmed we would be sending them to their death.
That's the only reason a percentage will convert.
With every country of refugees, there will be a small percentage, in the country earlier and more familiar with the system that will stand daily at the refugee centers. Their "job" is to hook up with as many as they can, and extract payment by warning them what's best said to the officials, what story to give that will ensure a higher percentage of winnable files (cases) and by then having a better understanding of English as well, they will be in touch daily right through to the end, deportation, being paid to feed them information that will give them a winnable case.
I can already hear these "consultants" advising 20-50 year old single males to claim they are gay and fleeing their "boyfriend's" family, who invariably will always have corrupt policemen as brothers, uncles, cousins, fathers, etc; within that will kill them upon return to Syria and often they wont claim status at the same time that their partners do. It gives them two chances rather than one, should one fail and one win, the failed one can then hook onto the winning case under a humanitarian + compassionate claim, marriage, etc.
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The news report that caused me to laugh and shake my head more than any other, was one showing some Muslims converting to Christianity as if to imply they were grateful to their host country.
Um, no. They convert as they cannot be sent back legally by the country that takes them in. To convert from Islam is considered a death sentence. Western nations cannot send back refugees when it's been confirmed we would be sending them to their death.
That's the only reason a percentage will convert.
With every country of refugees, there will be a small percentage, in the country earlier and more familiar with the system that will stand daily at the refugee centers. Their "job" is to hook up with as many as they can, and extract payment by warning them what's best said to the officials, what story to give that will ensure a higher percentage of winnable files (cases) and by then having a better understanding of English as well, they will be in touch daily right through to the end, deportation, being paid to feed them information that will give them a winnable case.
I can already hear these "consultants" advising 20-50 year old single males to claim they are gay and fleeing their "boyfriend's" family, who invariably will always have corrupt policemen as brothers, uncles, cousins, fathers, etc; within that will kill them upon return to Syria and often they wont claim status at the same time that their partners do. It gives them two chances rather than one, should one fail and one win, the failed one can then hook onto the winning case under a humanitarian + compassionate claim, marriage, etc.
Never seen it. I don't think we have it here in Canada unless you pay for a special package? Hmm, dunno, never thought to look for it.
That said, perhaps you watch too much CNN, AL Jazeera, NBC, ABC, CBS etc...guessing however that that comment might not make a lot of sense to you!
Is there a joke I missed? Also you're spreading false information just like what you originally quoted from me. Not really surprised.
Not all Islamic countries speak the language and have the same culture though.
The gulf countries speak the same language as those leaving Syria and Iraq ...and they have the same culture for the most part.