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Canada to welcome hundreds of refugees from Libya
the CNN ^ | February 8, 2019 | Mark Tutton

Posted on 02/08/2019 10:41:01 PM PST by granada

(CNN)Canada has announced it will take in 750 refugees from Libya, some rescued from migrant detention centers.

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said in a statement that Canada had already resettled more than 150 people, with another 600 anticipated to arrive in the next two years. Two years ago, CNN revealed video footage that showed migrants being sold into slavery in Libya, some for as little as $400 each. It caused an international outcry, with the UN Security Council condemning the sale of migrants as "heinous abuses of human rights."

Announcing Canada's move, Hussen said: "In 2017, the world was shocked to see the harrowing images of people being sold into slavery in Libya.

"In response to the situation, Canada was one of the few countries to step up to work with the UNHCR [the UN refugee agency] to resettle these refugees directly from Libya and offer them a new home in Canada." He added that Canada would also resettle 100 refugees from Niger, rescued from Libyan migrant detention centers, including victims of human smuggling.

Libya is a major transit point for migrants from Africa on their way to Europe. But they are vulnerable to exploitation, and as well as being sold into slavery some have been abducted and tortured to extort a payment for their release. There are an estimated 4,900 refugees and migrants still held in Libyan detention centers, including 3,600 in need of international protection, according to UNHCR. "They're enduring nightmarish conditions," a spokesman for the agency told CNN. "The use of detention is routine for people intercepted and rescued at sea, but there have been widespread reports of human rights violations, detainees being given insufficient food, insufficient access to healthcare, as well as allegations from former detainees of torture and sexual assault taking place."

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TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; libya; refugees
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"In 2017, the world was shocked to see the harrowing images of people being sold into slavery in Libya."

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Lib/Neocon brought slavery back to Africa in order to prevent Qaddafi from "massacring his own people".

1 posted on 02/08/2019 10:41:01 PM PST by granada
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To: granada

We need to build a Northern Wall too .
It’s time to let the Kanucks to stew in their own brew


2 posted on 02/08/2019 10:42:52 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: granada

Canada is being betrayed by the people who should be protecting her.


3 posted on 02/08/2019 10:43:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: granada
Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen

Well...that can’t be good.

4 posted on 02/08/2019 10:44:49 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: granada

they will live to regert it


5 posted on 02/08/2019 10:45:11 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: granada

Seeds of destruction...


6 posted on 02/08/2019 10:49:51 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: JerryBlackwell

Importing an illiterate, abused mob into a western nation is not going to end well. We should have learned a lesson with the Somalians, but Trudeau keeps doubling down on stupid.


7 posted on 02/08/2019 10:49:53 PM PST by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: granada

Canada needs more rapeugees.


8 posted on 02/08/2019 10:52:35 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: LeoWindhorse

Prime Minister Mini Me gets smaller by the day.


9 posted on 02/08/2019 10:57:55 PM PST by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: JerryBlackwell
they will live to regert it

So will we.

10 posted on 02/08/2019 10:59:10 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: littleharbour

Yeah, but there will be more of those hip and cool social problems like they have in other countries with oversized minority populations. There will be many new government programs to “integrate” them, and a bunch of new jobs in the important industries of social services, policing, “youth diversion programs”, bilingual education, welfare administration, etc. There will be government money, pats on the back, and angry screeching at conservatives for decades to come. It’s like heaven for leftists.


11 posted on 02/08/2019 11:12:24 PM PST by fluorescence
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To: granada

All those refugees should be shoved up Hillarys fat ass.

“We came, we saw, he died! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!”


12 posted on 02/08/2019 11:23:07 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: fluorescence
It’s like heaven for leftists.

southern border patrol cops should just hand out oneway bus tickets to Vancouver or Toronto or Ottawa. Probably cheaper than a wall. They’ll love the weather.

13 posted on 02/08/2019 11:28:29 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: granada

When a Canadian nightclub or shopping mall becomes the next carnage featured at the top of the Daily Mail, remember the floating eyebrow, and how he’s a better judge of character than you.


14 posted on 02/08/2019 11:29:34 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: granada

It seems to me we should move people in who would have a chance at melding into our society, both the U. S. and Canada.

The people from Libya have a right to seek out a better life, but with their religious idiosyncrasies, it just seems impossible for them to move into and meld into a mostly Christian nation.

We know it will cause friction. We know it will be disruptive to our current society.

This has no rational argument, that could make it seem sensible.


15 posted on 02/08/2019 11:30:29 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: granada

YOU”LL BE SOOORRRYYYYYY!!


16 posted on 02/08/2019 11:47:18 PM PST by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: BenLurkin

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch. Go on You Tube sometime and see what Canadians really think of us.


17 posted on 02/08/2019 11:51:29 PM PST by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: granada

I think once Canada brings in these 750 people, Libya will be fixed.

In similar news, I’ve read that Norway is going to fix Sudan by bringing in 900 migrants from that country.

Such brilliant and virtuous leaders we have in the West.


18 posted on 02/09/2019 12:16:55 AM PST by Dagnabitt (Where's the Wall?)
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To: granada

What could possibly go wrong?


19 posted on 02/09/2019 1:50:57 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: granada

The Northern Islamic Aircraft Carrier is adding troops.


20 posted on 02/09/2019 1:51:44 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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