{"id":12337,"date":"2015-10-13T14:52:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=12337"},"modified":"2017-07-25T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T18:12:31","slug":"refugees-settle-in-dayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2015\/10\/13\/refugees-settle-in-dayton\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees Settle in Dayton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bingrefugee_woman<\/a>In September, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley was one of 17 mayors of cities who wrote to President Obama to encourage raising the number of refugees that the United States plans to take in. Whaley\u2019s actions spurred criticism from Republican Congressman and former Dayton Mayor Mike Turner.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething like this should not be handled so cavalierly and unilaterally by the mayor of Dayton,\u201d Turner said. \u201cI don’t think she understands what she is undertaking. I don’t think she understands what she is committing the community to and she ought to focus her job back on the city and leave the Syrian refugees to the administration.\u201d In his own letter, Turner wrote that Whaley \u201cdoes not speak for [the Dayton] community.\u201d\"binggermancope-with-refugees<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOur role, as a city, as a community, as the mayor, is to make sure we welcome these folks with open arms,\u201d Whaley said. Whaley believes that being an open and diverse community is what will make Dayton successful.<\/p>\n

Turner\u2019s letter reads similarly to one he penned earlier, during the Border Crisis in 2014. Turner cites the costs of expenditures like increased police force, education and healthcare before again stressing, \u201cIn addition, Mayor Whaley does not have the authority to make such an offer for the city of Dayton.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whaley pledged her support to Cities United for Immigration Action, pledging that \u201cAs a municipal leader and a member of Cities United for Immigration Action, I stand with my peers from across the country in support of stronger, safer and more economically prosperous cities and counties through immigration action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Welcome Dayton is an initiative that was adopted in 2013. It comprises a series of key growth and development goals aimed to make Dayton immigrant-friendly. There has been debate on if Dayton qualifies as a \u201csanctuary city\u201d with the conditions that the reforms of Welcome Dayton created. \u201cSanctuary cities\u201d are those that have policies designed to not prosecute illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n

Executive Order No. 12, 2008 Physical Arrests of Traffic Violators, put in place by Dayton Police Chief Richard S. Biehl, modified protocol so as to prohibit officers from verifying immigration status of crime witnesses, victims and those perpetrators of minor traffic violations or other low-level offenses\u2014one of the many qualifiers of \u201csanctuary city\u201d policies.<\/p>\n

\"BingRefugeeGermany<\/a>Topics like illegal immigration and conflict in Syria have been some of the hot-button political issues at the forefront of newsrooms internationally. Recently, Germany, a European country that had already planned to accommodate 800,000, released a report doubling their estimate. Bild newspaper reports that the government document reads, \u201cThis high number of asylum seekers runs the risk of becoming an extreme burden for the states and municipalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany released estimates over the next few years projecting eight million in extended immigration, including the influx of family members of refugees over the original displacement.<\/p>\n

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, closed the nation\u2019s borders on Sunday, September 13 leaving thousands of refugees in the neighboring Austria. The Refugee Crisis has taken many forms across the European Union and further abroad.<\/p>\n

Merkel, along with Francois Hollande President of France, addressed the issue of the \u201cbroken\u201d asylum system in the European Union, where refugees are required to seek asylum in the first country they enter. Merkel suggests \u201ca new procedure\u201d that would distribute the refugees \u201cfairly\u201d amongst the 28 member of the European Union.<\/p>\n

Criticism on the refugee crisis and migration arises from a variety of perspectives. Home secretary of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, detailed struggles the United Kingdom faces with the diversity among asylum seekers and other migrants on cultural, economic, and humanitarian grounds.<\/p>\n

May delivered a speech on Tuesday October 6 during the Conservative Party conference. Mays said, \u201cpeople on both extremes of the debate\u2014from the anti-immigration far right to the open-borders liberal left\u2014conflate refugees in desperate need of help with economic migrants who simply want to live in a more prosperous society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir desire for a better life is perfectly understandable, but their circumstances are not nearly the same as those of the people fleeing their homelands in fear of their lives,\u201d said May. May also expressed concerns that \u201cwhen immigration is too high, when the pace of change [in the country] is too fast, it\u2019s impossible to build a cohesive society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I know there are some people who say, yes there are costs of immigration, but the answer is to manage the consequences, not reduce the numbers. But not all of the consequences can be managed, and doing so for many of them comes at a high price,\u201d Mays said.<\/p>\n

Concerns of religious regard were expressed by many including Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. \u201cAmong those seeking asylum in Germany, a large number come from countries in which they hear about Israel, \u2018the bogeyman.\u2019 They have grown up with this hostility towards Israel and often transfer their resentment to Jews in general,\u201d Schuster said.<\/p>\n

The Refugee Crisis and renewed focus on immigration policies worldwide has resulted in right-wing parties gaining traction in many countries like Sweden and Germany.<\/p>\n

Merkel was overheard briefly discussing the slew of anti-refugee postings on Facebook with Facebook founder Mike Zukerberg. Zukerberg responded that Facebook \u201chas some work to do.\u201d Facebook has long censored content in various countries, such as depictions of Islamic Prophet Muhammad just two weeks after the tragic events of Charlie Hebdo in France. Germany is one of many countries in which anti-Semitism has been made illegal, among other speech acts.<\/p>\n

The New York Times reports that Sweden and Hungary are among the top recipients for migrants when adjusted for population. The Refugees are coming from Syria, escaping the conditions of the Syrian Civil War, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Eritrea mainly. Along their paths are \u201ctransit\u201d countries like Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Libya and Hungary. Many refugees aim for countries like Germany, Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Greece.<\/p>\n

Part of May\u2019s speech comprised a revised immigration plan, detailing plans to modify asylum legislation. \u201cIf you\u2019ve spurned the chance to seek protection elsewhere\u2014but we cannot return you to that safe country and you still need refuge\u2014you\u2019ll get the minimum stay of protection and you won\u2019t have an automatic right to settle here. But for those who really need it, we will offer a longer stay of protection. Humane for those who need our help, tough on those who abuse it,\u201d Mays said.<\/p>\n

Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo and Westerville have already taken in over 1,700 refugees since 2012. The government has currently 190 cities as subcontractors to settle over 100,000 refugees over the next few years, including several Ohio cities\u2014Dayton among them.<\/p>\n

Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo are also slated to begin settling refugees in 2016. The refugees will be taken in by Catholic Social Services in Miami Valley.
\nBarton Kleen<\/strong>
\nManaging Editor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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