Lowry: Enough Refugees Already

Lowry: Enough Refugees Already - POLITICO Magazine:
"...It’s remarkable the president feels justified in lecturing anyone on humanitarianism.
He has stood by while Syria has descended into a hellish chaos, and hasn’t betrayed any guilty conscience.
There are roughly 10 million Syrians who are refugees (4.2 million) or internally displaced (6.5 million).
At 10,000 over the next year, we are offering to take .1 percent of them.
...The fact is that, since our resources aren’t limitless, we are constantly slamming the door in the faces of refugees, as the president puts it.
According to the World Bank, there were 2.5 million Afghan refugees in 2014; according to the office of refugee resettlement, in fiscal year 2014 we took 758 of them.
There were 616,000 from South Sudan; we took 52 of them.
There were 410,00 from the Central African Republic; we took 25 of them.
...By any reasonable standard we are justified in telling Europe that we have already done our part on migration, thank you very much.
The Migration Policy Institute notes that the U.S. hosts “about 20 percent of the world’s international migrants, even as it represents less than 5 percent of the global population.”
According to immigration expert Jessica Vaughan, since 2009 we have accepted 70 percent of all resettled United Nations-designated refugees worldwide..."