https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/10/02/minnesota-pays-public-housing-rent-somali-refugees-travel-overseas-months/
One more example of how many "refugees" claims are exaggerated or false. If you can afford to return to the place you needed refuge from for an extended period of time, then you're likely not really qualified for refugee status and probably shouldn't get getting taxpayer funded rent assistance while you're on vacation.
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That's weird. When I am short on cash, I don't travel. If I travel, I make sure my debts are paid up. I'm going to be traveling next week. I'll have to show this article to my landlord and see if he'll comp me for the time I'm gone.
While there might be exceptions, I completely agree that my financial condition will absolutely affect my ability to travel. That there is someone in government who pushed this ridiculous program through is the bigger problem. That people take advantage of it is human nature.
Obviously, the point is that if one's country is safe enough to vacation in, it's safe enough that one doesn't need asylum in the US.
Refugee/asylum programs are supposed to be temporary, contingent upon an improvement of conditions in the country of origin. Clearly, to travel home suggests their welcome in this country is over. The question would be how long these people were here and if they've been granted citizenship. What are the conditions which would allow a refugee to acquire citizenship and how soon after being allowed here could that be permissible? As this article suggests, we're looking at a scamming of our refugee policy.
The key word there is "supposed", that the ASPL treats refugee/asylee status as an E ticket to any and everything in the US, we both know that it's (mostly) just an excuse to get people in the country.
If anyone who in in the US as a refugee of asylee travels back to their home country, their status should immediately be revoked and their return flight ticket should be cancelled. (Might there be incredibly rare situations that could be exceptions, sure. But those should be negotiated in advance.) I'd argue that lying about conditions to gain refugee or asylee status, should immediately result in revoking of their status in the US (even citizenship).
It seems clear that we are indeed looking at refugees abusing the system, which then harms both the US as a whole but also legitimate refugees.
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