U.S. wants Canada to take refugees from Iraq, Cuba

Fri, 2007-01-19 17:38
National News

OTTAWA (CP) - ... Ellen Sauerbery, an American assistant secretary of state, spent two days in Ottawa this week discussing the matter with foreign affairs and immigration officials ...

Sauerbery said many Iraqis who fled to Syria or Jordan, including victims of torture, women and children, and members of the small Christian minority, will never be able to return to Iraq.

"We've encouraged Canada to make this a priority in their resettlement policy because this is an area of tremendous need and vulnerability," she told reporters ...

The Cubans at Guantanamo were plucked from the sea by the American coast guard while trying to escape their homeland ...

http://www.cjad.com/node/468856


Lessee ... There's about 3.5 million Iraqi refugees ... :freak:
Where could they go? Who should take them? :shrug:
Hmmm ... :think: Hey, I know! Canada! :bounce:
:eyes:

approach out. I have not a clue.

Statement on the nomination of Ellen Sauerbrey as Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration

Kenneth H. Bacon
09/01/2005

President Bush’s nomination of Ellen Sauerbrey to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration suggests a weakening of the administration’s commitment to refugee protection and humanitarian action. The Refugee Bureau at State is the nation’s first responder to refugee crises, whether caused by wars, earthquakes, famines or floods. However, Ms. Sauerbrey has no experience with refugee protection or with orchestrating responses to complex humanitarian emergencies.

Ms. Sauerbrey, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor in Maryland, is currently the Bush administration’s ambassador to the United Nations for women’s issues. In that post, Ambassador Sauerbrey has spoken out strongly on three issues: the need for more education for women, the importance of empowering women economically and politically and her opposition to abortion rights. It is her anti-abortion stance that appears to have attracted the administration’s attention, even though population programs comprise a small part of the Refugee Bureau’s work.

If confirmed by the Senate, Ambassador Sauerbrey would take over the Refugee Bureau at a time when it faces major challenges involving refugee protection and resettlement.The international community is struggling to protect refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan and to resettle millions of refugees and displaced people returning to southern Sudan following a peace agreement there. In the last two years, the Refugee Bureau has played a key role in advancing one of President Bush’s stated goals --- increasing the number of refugees resettled in the U.S. each year. Boosting that number from 28,000 in the year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to 53,000 last year has required persistence, patience, and a thorough knowledge of the mechanics of refugee resettlement.

... Her views on women’s education and economic empowerment .. aren’t enough to qualify her for a job that will put her on the front lines of responding to manmade and natural disasters as well as the human rights and security violations that drive refugees from their homes.

http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/6712/


Looks like she's the Refugee Bureau's version of FEMA's former Mike Brown ...

Contrary to popular belief, we're not your "little brother", and we certainly don't want to be a fucking dumping ground for Bush's failed foreign policy.

No? ... Perhaps we should ask again tomorrow? ... (*ducking various hurled objects*) ... Uh, maybe could we interest you in a general conflagration in the Middle East, starting with a war against Iran? :hide:

Here is hoping but doubting that Sauerbrey heard you!

thousands flee to other countries and now it wants Canada to take them?? :wtf:

Somebody ought to tell that Sauerbery moron that the transition in Cuba has been made successfully and the Cuban exiles wet dream of Cubanos rioting in the streets and leaving the island ain't happening.

These Bushco goons are fugging crazy.

Poor, poor things. They've been so brain-washed they are practically little zombies!

Reminds me of how little Elián became so traumatized when he realized he was going to have to go back to Cuba to live with his father, step-mother, brother, 4 grandparents, cousins, neighbors, and schoolmates. The horror!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: That the best I have heard in awhile.....

Let the rest seek refuge in Canada! When do we move the Statue of Liberty up the coast?

Are the Iraqis feeling the love yet?

Cuba, simply for the hell of it, to be able to slap them down for daring to overthrow a brutal U.S. puppet. Iraq, to acquire a permanent possession in the Mideast he can call his own, from which he can better bully the rest of the countries, with a hefty profit for his Republican friends.

If he knew of some way he could make them all disappear permanently without bringing himself criticism, he'd do it in a heartbeat, even if it meant putting them all in the gas chamber, or electric chair, the way he used to do it back in Texas. "Please don't kill us."

That's my total belief.