I love this.
Refugees Welcome
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#12I would like to see the US step up its process to accept refugees. Currently it takes 18 to 24 months for refuges to be able to get on a plane the US. The US has agreed to accept up to 70k refugees yet at this rate it will take for ever while Germany has hundreds of new refuges per day. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/11/us-accept-thous...
Your comment annoyed me enough that I looked through your history to find
> That is what it was for me when I moved to the US from Switzerland.
> Only then I realized that the way people live in Switzerland is not something you can take for granted and in the end made me move back.
Since you don't live in the US anymore, please stick to trying to influence Swiss policy. Since you aren't going to have to deal with the consequences of a widely expanded US refugee policy.
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#13I would like to see the US step up its process to accept refugees. Currently it takes 18 to 24 months for refuges to be able to get on a plane the US. The US has agreed to accept up to 70k refugees yet at this rate it will take for ever while Germany has hundreds of new refuges per day. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/11/us-accept-thous...
70k per year is hundreds per day. And then there's all the asylum seekers on top of that as well as the massive undocumented migrations across the southern border.
If Germany were an island it would do the same kind of processing.
There's nothing wrong with examining a person for a year before letting them settle in your country. The system has worked well thus far, why bust it up?
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#14Bloody good luck getting them out again.
Thankfully, I don't think people with an attitude like that would take them in the first place.
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#15I would like to see the US step up its process to accept refugees. Currently it takes 18 to 24 months for refuges to be able to get on a plane the US. The US has agreed to accept up to 70k refugees yet at this rate it will take for ever while Germany has hundreds of new refuges per day. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/11/us-accept-thous...
Your comment annoyed me enough that I looked through your history to find > That is what it was for me when I moved to the US from Switzerland. > Only then I realized that the way people live in Switzerland is not something you can take for granted and in the end made me move back. Since you don't live in the US anymore, please stick to trying to influence Swiss policy. Since you aren't going to have to deal with the…
That's an ad hominem. Rather than debating the merits of his suggestion, you're attacking his person.
Furthermore, it's not unreasonable for people living in one country to have opinions on the policies of others, especially when it's something like taking in refugees which has strong influences on a global scale.
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#16"However, we want to encourage you also to welcome irregular refugees."
I know that in some countries this would be illegal, not sure about Germany though TBH.
Edit: No sure why this got downvoted, especially considering the response by mtrn.
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#17Bloody good luck getting them out again.
Thankfully, I don't think people with an attitude like that would take them in the first place.
Part of my job is contingency planning...
The obvious thought is how nice and kind this all is, but what if after the 2 week honeymoon period you want the person to move out? It can happen with friends when someone needs to crash for a few weeks/month or so and people get tired of not living their normal lives, so why not with a stranger? If that person has literally nowhere else to go and no money, are you really going to kick them out on the street?
If you ever let out a property or room in a property without a contract you're up the creek if you ever want to make them leave. But of course, people don't think about that at the start... So in that case, good luck getting them out.
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#18This could be interesting. How much does a refugee cost? Will this refugee clean my house, cook dinner and tend to my garden? Do I need to interact with it or can I put my refugee in a separate part of the mansion?
If you're trying to say that the site's concept humiliates refugees, please be more specific as I don't see where it does that. If you're just trying to be funny, try harder, or better yet, just leave it alone.
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#19The fact that skin color is used to represent refugees is a disappointment. Otherwise, it would be a great idea.
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#20I would like to see the US step up its process to accept refugees. Currently it takes 18 to 24 months for refuges to be able to get on a plane the US. The US has agreed to accept up to 70k refugees yet at this rate it will take for ever while Germany has hundreds of new refuges per day. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/11/us-accept-thous...
Your comment annoyed me enough that I looked through your history to find > That is what it was for me when I moved to the US from Switzerland. > Only then I realized that the way people live in Switzerland is not something you can take for granted and in the end made me move back. Since you don't live in the US anymore, please stick to trying to influence Swiss policy. Since you aren't going to have to deal with the…
They live on this planet therefore they have to deal with the consequences of "US refugee policy"