We must consider whether refugees fleeing the persecution of their home country may be better served by resettlement in a friendly nation closer to their homes.
The United States, NATO and the European Union have made better progress on resettlement, and on Croatia's support for Muslim-Croat cooperation in Bosnia, their main tests for better relations with Zagreb.
After finagling meetings with the United Nations refugee agency and the United States Embassy so she could better understand the resettlement process, she returned to Yale and, with another student, founded IRAP — the "I" then standing for Iraqi.
"We must consider whether refugees fleeing the persecution of their home country may be better served by resettlement in a friendly nation closer to their homes," Colyer said in a statement.
The resolution, which was backed by four of the European Parliament's major political groups, also called for expanded search and rescue operations, bigger contributions to resettlement programmes, better cooperation with non-EU states and tougher measures against people smugglers.
The State Department quietly lifted Trump's ceiling in May in an apparent acceptance that Trump's ban wouldn't stick and reportedly to help resettlement agencies better manage the two-year process.
MEPs also call for a binding quota for distributing asylum seekers among all EU countries, bigger contributions to resettlement programmes, better cooperation with third countries and tougher measures against people smugglers.
"We can see a reduction in the amount of drugs entering the establishment, the use of force is reducing and better care, sentence plans and resettlement arrangements for prisoners are being put in place.
These need not be large; indeed, given problems of maintenance and resettlement, it would be better if they were not.
