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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Wow.
1) everybody gets "screened". Of course they do.
2) There is a civil war happening in Syria. That classifies as "fighting". To suggest that "british, french, polish, czeck's, russians" all fought and there were no refugees from those places is just absurd. There were tens of millions of refugees in Europe and leaving Europe.
3) If you think it's a bit strange that people would go to a land of greater prosperity, I don't know what to say.
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There seems to be a lot of that; "OMG, I can't believe we are letting in 25,000 Syrians without vetting or proper screening." It's ridiculous.
There is an upside to taking in refugee sooner rather than later and that is that we will have first pick. Any time there is a massive migration like this, the original country suffers a brain drain, but destination countries benefit from that. There seems to be this notion among some that all the refugees are going to destitute forever, but there are people from all walks of life. Some are professionals, intellectuals, artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, etc... The types of people that can have almost immediate positive impacts on the countries they immigrate to. This was the case with a lot of the post-WW2 refugees that came to Canada.