While everyone seems preoccupied with the Trump administration action on slowing acceptance of refugees from seven countries (a case now winding its way through the US court system), no one seems to be paying attention to why there are refugees.
In most of the cases the people are running from a home where they are under threat due to their race, religion, or cultural heritage. Peoples attacked due to those reasons are usually considered under threat of genocide, something that the UN was created to protect against.
Unfortunately the UN has been wholly inadequate and ineffective in protecting these peoples in their homelands. They are even reluctant to label obvious genocide events as genocide, preferring to label them as a civil war. Instead, the only thing the UN seems to have been capable of is pushing papers. They've used this skill to setup the refugee system which they administer, with the end goal to require UN member countries to take the refugees as a band-aid fix to the real problem.
Due to this general lack of overall effectiveness, fear of acknowledging genocide, and possible vested interest in processing refugees as quickly as possible, I don't trust their vetting process. While they claim the two or so years of interviewing and observing each refugee is sufficient, I'm certain a few committed bad actors will make it through the vetting process. The challenge will be how to identify more of those bad actors with minimum disruption to the lives of the refugees who are willing to embrace a US culture and lifestyle.
But my main question is how can we get the UN to follow its rules to acknowledge localized genocide events and enforce international law, capture and prosecute the offenders.
In most of the cases the people are running from a home where they are under threat due to their race, religion, or cultural heritage. Peoples attacked due to those reasons are usually considered under threat of genocide, something that the UN was created to protect against.
Unfortunately the UN has been wholly inadequate and ineffective in protecting these peoples in their homelands. They are even reluctant to label obvious genocide events as genocide, preferring to label them as a civil war. Instead, the only thing the UN seems to have been capable of is pushing papers. They've used this skill to setup the refugee system which they administer, with the end goal to require UN member countries to take the refugees as a band-aid fix to the real problem.
Due to this general lack of overall effectiveness, fear of acknowledging genocide, and possible vested interest in processing refugees as quickly as possible, I don't trust their vetting process. While they claim the two or so years of interviewing and observing each refugee is sufficient, I'm certain a few committed bad actors will make it through the vetting process. The challenge will be how to identify more of those bad actors with minimum disruption to the lives of the refugees who are willing to embrace a US culture and lifestyle.
But my main question is how can we get the UN to follow its rules to acknowledge localized genocide events and enforce international law, capture and prosecute the offenders.
