I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.
We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.
For the price of resettling, one refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region. Which I agree with 100 percent.
If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're escaping the capitalism and degradation of economic imperialism. We don't call them political refugees; we call them unfortunate people.
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.
Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.
The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem.
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
I think we need to do two things - or three things. One is we need to put a stop on refugees until we can vet.
Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.
I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have.
I've never stopped being a refugee.
Why is it that the U. S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.
There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.
My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.
Only 4 percent of the people who live here [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] are actually foreign-born. And even fewer of those are refugees. So there's not a whole lot of experience with refugees here.
