Unthinking Majority wrote:I bet people are more concerned if they "behave like us".
I don't think refugee policy should depend on country of origin, this seems unfair. However, I do think developed countries should be more picky in terms of screening for characteristics that are likely to produce bad outcomes among migrants. Education/skills and overall income potential, single vs married parents, and possibly beliefs about fundamental human rights in a liberal democracy etc.
Refugee policy, at this point, is not supposed to look at any of this, since it is based on need. Signatories to refugee conventions are supposed to give asylum based solely on need.
No one is asking Ukrainian refugees to show “Education/skills and overall income potential, single vs married parents, and possibly beliefs about fundamental human rights in a liberal democracy”, and therefore it is not egalitarian to demand swarthier refugees to do so.
The downtown in my city is being ruined because it is next to a low-income residential area filled with many low-income migrants, and their children go downtown every weekend to party and there's shootings and stabbings all the time now. This area used to be much safer 20 years ago. Characteristics that are most likely to produce such outcomes should be a factor in which migrants are accepted, and the others can be helped but ultimately relocated to a safe country with an economic profile more in line with their socio-economic profile.
The downtown in my city goes through periodic booms and busts that have more to do with the price of oil than with immigrants.
I highly doubt that the Hôtel de Ville in Paris found evidence of a verifiable link between swarthier refugees and crime that does not exist for Ukrainian refugees.
The whole thing can be made very simple. Should we accept Ukrainian refugees and try to help them? Yes, we should. Is there any reason to treat other refugees differently? No, there is not.