Liberal, Harsh Denmark

Re:Liberal, Harsh Denmark by flexie on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:03AM (#11186773)

The US has still only welcomed 2,300 refugees. That is less than Denmark, a country the size of the state of Maryland, received per month this fall. In one week alone, Denmark received 11,000 refugees from the Middle East. I'd like to see the reaction in American media if you received 300/6 x 10,000 = 500,000 refugees in one week. Denmark received 21,000 official asylum seekers in 2015, most in the second half of the year, and mostly young men from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. That is like if the US received 1 million. And on top of that a much larger number seemingly just traveling through.

With 31 governors refusing to receive any Syrian refugees at all (and so too your likely next president) I think Americans should keep the Euro bashing at a minimum.

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Re:Liberal, Harsh Denmark by adventured on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:54AM (#11186862)

The US is and has been taking massive numbers of refugees from Latin America (how many are European nations taking from Latin America?). Latin America over the last 30 years has witnessed a lot of chaos, war, huge murder rates, etc. of nearly the scale Syria is seeing. The murder rate in Honduras for example is half the casualty rate of the Syrian civil war. How Honduras isn't considered an active war zone I don't know. If Honduras were the size of Syria, it would have seen upwards of 100,000 murders in just the last five years. In just seven years in Mexico, around 164,000 people were murdered in the cartel wars.

The US has taken in 10 million immigrants (twice the population of Denmark) from just Mexico in the last 30 some years. You don't think those people are every bit as much refugees as the people of Syria? They've fled intense poverty and domestic war, and they're willing to die to try to get across the US border to a better life.

How much more do you think the US can absorb exactly?

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