Quotes from the 1951 Refugee Convention:
Article 23 - Public relief
The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying in their territory the same treatment with respect to public relief and assistance as is accorded to their nationals.
Article 17 - Wage-earning employment
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2. In any case, restrictive measures imposed on aliens or the employment of aliens for the protection of the national labour market shall not be applied to a refugee...who fulfils one of the following conditions:
(a) He has completed three years’ residence in the country;
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(c) He has one or more children possessing the nationality of the country of residence.
Article 34 - Naturalization [and getting the right to vote (and buy AR-15s)]
The Contracting States shall as far as possible facilitate the assimilation and naturalization of refugees. They shall in particular make every effort to expedite naturalization proceedings and to reduce as far as possible the charges and costs of such proceedings.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-relating-status-refugees
Article 44 - Denunciation [getting out from under the Refugee Convention]
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations....
NOTE: I do not trust any politician who has not called for invoking Article 44 to get the US out from under the Refugee Convention.
And my distrust extends to Trump and DeSantis.
The Refugee Convention must be removed from the Democratic Party toolbox by invoking Article 44.
Calling economic migrants political refugees is a fraud and a sham. It needs to stop.
Same thing here in many countries of Europe, including my hapless one.
Enoch Powell, the best Prime Minister Britain never had, said it best :“We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to permit the inflow of 50,000 dependents, who are, for the most part, the material of the future growth of the immigrant descended population.
It is like a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.“
And that was 1968. His prediction has come more than true, but as I like to emphasize again and again, it is not“we“ who are to blame for this utter dog‘s breakfast of a situation, but our evil, corrupt power elites and their lickspittles in the media and elsewhere, who are to blame entirely.
No-one else🙁