President Trump’s first address to the United Nations General Assembly rocked the political world order, as he savaged the ideology of socialism, condemned dictators by name – and exposed the ‘refugee resettlement’ agenda as a destructive wealth redistribution scheme advanced by globalists.
While acknowledging the humanitarian crisis precipitated by the Syrian conflict, Trump elucidated the logical methodology for its handling, which has been carried out to some degree but with only a modicum of international recognition, while the lion’s share of attention is focused on pressuring Western countries to open their borders and wallets to millions of economic migrants vaguely camouflaged as refugees of war and persecution.
“We appreciate the efforts of the United Nations agencies that are providing vital humanitarian assistance in areas liberated from ISIS [emphasis added by President], and we especially thank Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon for their role in hosting refugees from the Syrian conflict,” Trump said. “The United States is a compassionate nation, and has spent billions and billions of dollars in helping to support this effort.”
“We seek an approach to refugee resettlement that is designed to help these horribly-treated people, and which enables their eventual return to their home countries to be part of the rebuilding process.”
“For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region,” Trump explained. “Out of the goodness of our hearts, we offer financial assistance to hosting countries in the region, and we support recent agreements of the G20 nations that will seek to host refugees as close to their home countries as possible. This is the safe, responsible, and humanitarian approach.”
Trump’s assertion regarding the comparative economics of assisting refugees in regions as close to their homelands as possible, versus allowing or inviting them to relocate to the United States, Europe, and other Western countries, is supported conclusively by data.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a report in 2015 detailing findings that a single refugee imported from the Middle East to the US consumed the same financial resources as providing care and shelter for 12 refugees who remain in secure areas in the Middle East – and as CIS explained in detail, these estimates were very conservative and based on bare-bones figures released by the federal government.
“The U.S. government publishes some information on welfare use and money spent to resettle refugees in the United States,” the report states. “Based on that information, this analysis finds that the costs of resettling refugees in the United States are quite high, even without considering all of the costs refugees create.”
“We conservatively estimate that the costs total $64,370 in the first five years for each Middle Eastern refugee. This is 61 times what it costs to care for one Syrian refugee in a neighboring country for a single year or about 12 times the cost of providing for a refugee for five years.”
The report concludes with a statement putting the #RefugeesWelcome crowd on blast – without any mention of the massive increase in violent crime and terrorism these ‘refugees’ bring with them, as well as the societal chaos they create.
“One may argue that when it comes to refugees costs should not matter because refugees are admitted for humanitarian reasons. But this position makes little sense. Funds to resettle refugees in this country or to help them overseas are never unlimited and there are always competing demands for public monies. The federal budget deficit was more than $400 billion in 2015 and 47 million U.S. residents live in poverty, including one-fifth of the nation’s children. Resources to deal with the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East are finite.”
Left-leaning UK media outlet The Independent published similar findings as they apply to Europe, where migrants have arrived by the millions of their own volition – not requiring a taxpayer-subsidized airplane ride to reach their destination, as many do to enter the United States.
“Syrian refugees will cost ten times more to care for in Europe than in neighboring countries,” reads an Independent headline from 2016. “A budget of $3,000 per refugee in Jordan would provide food, water, education and opportunity. In Germany this will cost $30,000.”
The United Nations refugee agency recently admitted that what has long been referred to as a ‘refugee’ crisis, has little to do with true ‘refugees’ and virtually everything to do with illegal immigration and human trafficking, and as Infowars reported, “new figures show that just 1.4% of migrants arriving in Italy are Syrian refugees, confirming the fact that the overwhelming majority of people flooding into Europe are economic migrants from countries not at war.”
