Shannon Scribner, humanitarian policy manager at Oxfam America, said the most useful approach would be for world governments to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria, but since that is not expected any time soon, the organization is pushing for the US to resettle 70,000 Syrian refugees.
The European Commission (EC) unveiled its European Agenda on Migration today, outlining a series of emergency and long-term measures to deal with the unprecedented number of people crossing the Mediterranean, but several countries are pushing back against plans to resettle migrants, saying it will lead to more shipwrecks by encouraging others to attempt the perilous voyage.
The first Canadian government plane carrying Syrian refugees has arrived in Toronto, where they were greeted by the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, who is pushing forward with his pledge to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February.
Ian Fisher (NYT) ZIMBABWE: LAND-SEIZURE STILL PLANNED -- President Robert Mugabe has vowed to push on with plans to seize white-owned farms to resettle black laborers despite his defeat in a referendum on a proposed new constitution that would have strengthened the presidency and given the government the right to seize land without compensation.
In 1999, my abuela was once again left orphaned when my parents, my sister and I were pushed out of Argentina for economic reasons and forced to resettle in the United States.
Even though Canada's new Liberal government has pushed back its original promise of bringing in 25,000 Syrian refugees this year, the immigration minister announced this weekend he hopes to resettle as many as 50,000 by the end of 2016.
Germany has committed to resettle 30,000 people.
Kenyans need help to resettle and rebuild.
And Gambia has offered to resettle all Rohingya refugees.
A second option is to resettle detainees in the US.
