Conservative Analysis of the Refugees Currently Coming to America and Pennsylvania

In my post for Christmas, I encouraged the welcoming of refuges seeking asylum from persecution, noting that the Holy Family had to flee to Egypt. There has been an increase in migrants coming to America across the southern border since the relaxation last year of the emergency restrictions from the Coronavirus Pandemic, which is making up for the last three years of lower numbers, as expected. The migrants, which number only in the tens of thousands even with the current spike, are not usually Mexicans, but, as I have noted, often from other countries around the world. And many are not immigrants seeking to settle in America permanently for better economic opportunity, but refuges seeking asylum from persecution, war or terrorism, with a variation from time to time in the countries of origin, depending on the circumstances. The latest data from the Refugee Processing Center, which is operated by the United States, provides a breakdown of the countries of origin. Across America, a few thousand migrants have come to America each month, mostly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an unfree country which has been suffering from war for decades, Syria, which has suffered a bloody civil war since 2011 when peaceful protestors against the tyrannical Assad regime were brutally repressed, and Afghanistan, where the repressive Islamist Taliban regained power in 2021. Because of its overly restrictive nativist policies, the Trump Administration, which granted asylum to a family from the free country of Germany, did not even permit Christians from Syria to flee from Islamist terrorists, such as al-Qaeda and its offshoot, the Islamic State, and, as I have posted, made entry too difficult even for Afghans who worked with the Americans who had overthrown the Taliban in 2002 after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks by al-Qaeda, whom the Taliban had harbored. The breakdown for Pennsylvania, according to the Center, was a few hundred each from Syria, Congo and Afghanistan, a fewer than a hundred each from Socialist Venezuela and Marxist Nicaragua and a few others from Latin America plagued by gang violence, or other countries, and only a handful from Ukraine, which is suffering an aggressive invasion by the Russian Federation, and several other countries. The Keystone State took in more Syrians and Haitians than any other State in the Union. The largest community of Syrians in America are in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. Haiti is suffering from a lack of freedom and violence, exacerbated by powerful gangs. The United States recently organized an international police mission to Haiti led by Kenya and with United Nations approval against the gangs, as I posted. Refugees who seek liberty should be welcomed, not only for their sake to enjoy freedom, but because they enrich their host country through their greater appreciation for liberty and their insight into how it can be lost.