Bauschard Debate 9/25/15 5: 06 pm refugees Pre-Release
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- Aid needs to go to Jordan and Lebanon
- Inadequate assistance to the refugees now
- Need to respond with compassion and provide refugees with aid
- Need Massive Resettlement
- Current plan only addresses a small fraction
- A2: Too Many People to Absorb
- Need a Comprehensive Resettlement Plan
- Resettling Large Numbers Practically Possible
Should Increase AidShould Increase Aid$5.5 billion in aid is neededAmanda Taub, 9-5-15, Vox, Europe’s refugee crisis, explained, http://www.vox.com/2015/9/5/9265501/refugee-crisis-europe-syria DOA: 9-7-15 This summer, the European Union, United States, and Kuwait respectively pledged $1.2 billion, $507 million, and $500 million for aid to refugees. That's good, but it's still far short of the $5.5 billion in aid that the UN says is needed for these refugees, as well as another $2.9 billion for displaced Syrians within Syria. As a result, the camps are often crowded and undersupplied, which leaves the people who live in them cold, hungry, and subject to the ravages of disease. Aid needs to go to Jordan and LebanonDan Bilefsky, 9-7-15, New York Times, European Leaders Pledge to Take in More Migrants, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/world/europe/europe-migrant-crisis.html DOA: 9-7-15 The European Union needs to provide “massive humanitarian aid” to countries like Jordan and Lebanon that have taken in millions of Syrian refugees, Mr. Hollande said. The French leader added that the European Union needed to create so-called hot spot reception centers in countries like Greece, Hungary and Italy to identify and register migrants as they arrived in the European Union and to turn back those who do not fulfill the requirements for asylum. It was not clear how such centers would operate. Need to Increase AidInadequate assistance to the refugees nowNicholas Kristof, New York Times, Refugees Who Could Be Us, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-refugees-who-could-be-us.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 DOA: 9-22-15 Aylan’s death reflected a systematic failure of world leadership, from Arab capitals to European ones, from Moscow to Washington. This failure occurred at three levels: ■ The Syrian civil war has dragged on for four years now, taking almost 200,000 lives, without serious efforts to stop the bombings. Creating a safe zone would at least allow Syrians to remain in the country. ■ As millions of Syrian refugees swamped surrounding countries, the world shrugged. United Nations aid requests for Syrian refugees are only 41 percent funded, and the World Food Program was recently forced to slash its food allocation for refugees in Lebanon to just $13.50 per person a month. Half of Syrian refugee children are unable to go to school. So of course loving parents strike out for Europe. ■ Driven by xenophobia and demagogy, some Europeans have done their best to stigmatize refugees and hamper their journeys. Need to respond with compassion and provide refugees with aidNicholas Kristof, September 10, 2015, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/opinion/nicholas-kristof-compassion-for-refugees-isnt-enough.html?_r=0 9-22-15 So by all means let’s respond with compassion to the refugees (not as jerks, as Hungarian officials have). But above all, let’s address the crisis at its roots, particularly in the Middle East. One essential step is to improve conditions for the 3.7 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. The World Food Program was just forced to cut 229,000 refugees in Jordan off food rations because it ran out of money, and if the world won’t pay for refugees to eat in Jordan, it will have to feed them in the West. Need Massive ResettlementStatus Quo Plan FailsCurrent plan inadequateJoshua Keating, 9-22-15, Slate, EU Refugee Plan is Too Much for Eastern Europe, but still not enough, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/09/22/eu_agrees_on_plan_to_take_in_120_000_refugees.html DOA: 9-22-15 The plan passed by majority vote with Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania voting no and Finland abstaining. Eastern European countries, with little experience in accommodating large-scale non-European immigration, have been extremely hostile toward European pressure to take in more refugees. The new plan would compel them to take people in against their will, something that is likely to further deepen tensions within the bloc and could lead to further backlash against Brussels and the reimposition of border controls within the union. Even so, the plan doesn’t come near to addressing the scale of the crisis, which has seen nearly 500,000 people entering the EU so far this year to escape war and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa. According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the 120,000 people addressed under the new system would account for about 20 days worth of arrivals. So it seems likely that the crowds gathered in the Balkans and Turkey outside the increasingly fortified gates of Europe will continue to grow. Current plan only addresses a small fractionBloomberg View, September 25, 2015, Europe Again Fails to solve its Refugee Crisis, http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-25/europe-again-fails-to-solve-its-refugee-crisis DOA: 9-25-15 On Tuesday, European interior ministers voted through a plan calling for 120,000 refugees to be resettled among the member countries. That's a tiny fraction of the asylum seekers who've already turned up, to say nothing of those expected to arrive in the coming months. A conservative estimate is 1 million refugees this year, and the flow might continue at the same rate for the foreseeable future. A2: Too Many People to AbsorbRelative to Europe’s entire population, it is an insignificant number of peopleMartin Wolf, September 22, 2015, Financial Times, A refugee crisis that Europe cannot escape, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3967804c-604b-11e5-a28b-50226830d644.html#axzz3mTKajB48 DOA : 9-22-15 The number of accepted asylum seekers this year would still amount to only 0.1 per cent of the EU’s population, hardly an unmanageable figure. The numbers reaching the EU are also small relative to the total number of refugees. The number of forcibly displaced people in the world at the end of last year was 59.5m. Moreover, nearly two-thirds of the displaced remain within the borders of their own countries, while 86 per cent of all refugees are in developing countries. Turkey hosts at least 1.7m, Lebanon 1.3m and Jordan 1m. Given the size and prosperity of the EU, the task it faces is relatively trivial,
A comprehensive refugee settlement program is needed – need to included employment, education, and general assistance.David Milband, 9-22-15, How the US Can Welcome Refugees, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/opinion/how-the-us-can-welcome-refugees.html DOA: 9-22-15 The mismatch between need and response is all the more striking since the United States has given a home to some three million refugees since 1975. In 2013, they came from 64 different countries. The experience of the United States Refugee Admissions Program, which is a consortium of federal agencies and nonprofit organizations, offers a number of valuable lessons. The first is that successful resettlement needs more than big-hearted citizens. It needs an effective combination of resources provided by both the public and the private spheres. Government needs to set the legislative framework, oversee security checks and provide funding for initial housing, case management and language training. Once these needs are met, resettlement agencies in the United States work within their communities to develop volunteer programs and raise funds to augment the public provision. The success of the refugee admissions program lies in this partnership between the public and the private sectors. Second, refugees need to be seen for their potential contribution to society. The language of “burden” is mistaken. Rather, economic self-sufficiency is the central pillar in successful refugee resettlement. Resettlement agencies work to help refugees gain employment as soon as possible after their arrival. According to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement’s annual report to Congress for 2013 (the most recent year for which figures are available), the rate of refugees’ self-sufficiency at 180 days was 69 percent. A recent survey by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute found that refugees were, in fact, more likely to be employed than the American-born population. Third, education for the children of refugees is crucial for effective integration. Many refugee children arrive with little formal education and limited to no English skills. Yet resettlement experience in the United States shows that, with proper support, refugee children are able to thrive at school in a short time. The final lesson is that refugees prosper most when they become citizens. Refugees need support to achieve it as soon as they become eligible. Studies show that naturalization as a United States citizen correlates with higher levels of employment and earnings. The United Nations has called for the resettlement of 400,000 Syrian refugees over the next several years — which amounts to about 10 percent of those who have been displaced to neighboring countries like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. Historically, the United States has taken 50 percent of the world’s refugees who are eligible for resettlement; that is why the I.R.C. is appealing to America to take 100,000 Syrians next year. That will require political will and the funding to back it up — both of which most of Europe has conspicuously lacked. European Union leaders meeting this week must put that right. With more people fleeing conflict and disaster than at any time since World War II, renewed leadership is required. No country is better placed than the United States to offer it. Resettling Large Numbers Practically PossibleUS resettled 800,000 Vietnamese after the warAssociated Press, 9-21-15, Kerry says US will take in 85,000 refugees next year; 100,000 in ’17, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/21/kerry-says-us-will-take-85000-refugees-next-year-100000-in-17/ DOA: 9-22-15 Even if the U.S. took in 30,000 Syrians over the next two years — an unlikely outcome, given that only 1,500 have been admitted since the start of the war — that number would pale in comparison to the hundreds of thousands that Germany is expected to accept, or the 800,000 Vietnamese that the U.S. resettled in the years after the Vietnam war. Directory: uploads uploads -> 587 Return function, r i(X) r i(0) r i(1) r i(2) r i(3) 1 0 2 4 6 Thermal Station, I 2 0 1 5 6 3 0 3 5 6 10 uploads -> Department of science and humanities department of mathematics part-a questions and answers uploads -> The Case Against the nypd’s Quota-Driven ‘Broken Windows’ Policing What Is It? uploads -> For want of a nail uploads -> Ownership Models There are two different types of ownership models uploads -> Police Militarization uploads -> City of rising star regular meting thursday, july 14, 2016 uploads -> Township of winfield uploads -> Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act of 2014 uploads -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program What We Want Now! Download 0.68 Mb. Share with your friends:
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