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Submitted by Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullah (Australia), Dec 24, 2014 at 00:27

"...A lot of people who once thought they'd hop on the first plane home once a conflict or tyranny passed have ended their days as elderly Americans or US permanent residents...."

Yes - that's fine - if they ended up actually contributing to US society , worked, did not commit crimes for which you can be jailed for a year or more paid taxes etc and can justify now being healthcare recipients.

What we see a LOT of - and not just in Australia - is 'refugees' who arrive under the pretence of being persecuted in their countries of origin - arriving in another muslim country eg. malyasia, Indonesia, Turkey - and then continuing on, shopping for any western country they can find.

And then having succeeded in convincing authorities they are 'persecuted' - , gaining entry and a visa ,working for 18 months - 3 years or so then taking a holiday back to the country they claimed to have been 'persecuted' in.

It is far better if we provide them training etc for 3 or so years so that they can go back and repair their own countries and getting them functioning in a way which we would see as being something which has a good chance of succeeding long term.

Otherwise it is an interminable process - the West having to bail out the stupidity and incompetence of people who carry on unsustainable practices in enviroments which cannot support them.e.g.. breeding uncontrollably with no thought for the future in unstable societies in semi-arid locales.

The West owes these countries nothing - but our humanity forces us to act - you can't sit around and watch defenceless people starve. Equally, you can't sit around and watch defenceless people being slaughtered by criminals like ISIS - but it would be far better if these countries has the wherewithal to take care of their own problems in the first place. So - secular education would seem to be the best way of bringing that about. Islam acts detrimentally to the establishment of fair and progressive societies.

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