2,300 migrants traveling in 17 inflatable boats rescued from the Mediterranean

Refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern countries keep trying to flee from the violence and atrocities in their homeland and enter Europe for safety and a better life. They try to cross the Mediterranean using various means and, sometimes they succeed, at other times, they are drowned in the attempt.
As per latest reports, nearly 2,300 migrants including many women and very young children have been rescued from the Mediterranean while they were on a perilous crossing to Italy.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 11 September 2016.

The rescue was carried out by a team of a Spanish ship, an Irish naval vessel and several humanitarian boats. The migrants were traveling on 17 inflatable boats and a fishing boat. The rescues comes after a huge wave of migrants who arrived in Italy at the end of August. At that time, more than 14,000 people mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, were brought to safety in the span of five days.
As per records of Italy's interior ministry, about 124,500 migrants have arrived since the start of 2016 - this was slightly lower than the 122,000 recorded last year. Italy continues to extend shelter to growing numbers of would-be refugees because other European countries have tightened their borders.
Italy now has 148,000 asylum-seekers in reception centers as compared to 103,000 in 2015 and 66,000 in 2014.


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Refugee crisis keeps mounting in Jordan with 60000 Syrians cramped in camps

#jordan #syrianrefugees #KingAbdullah King Abdullah, the King of Jordan, has warned the global community that his country is at 'boiling point' because of the number of Syrian refugees and the West needs to extend a helping hand before the 'dam bursts'. Jordan is at present hosting more than 600,000 of the 4.6million Syrians who have registered with the UN as refugees since the civil war broke out in the country five years ago.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 4 February 2016.

However, the government of Jordan adds that there are another one million unregistered Syrians who are living in the country adding to its population of 9.5million. There are apprehensions that many more will arrive because there are still another 13.5million vulnerable and displaced people who continue to remain in Syria.
Speaking ahead of a key conference on Syria that is being held in London this week, King Abdullah has said that the flood of refugees into his country had damaged its education and healthcare systems. He has urged Western leaders to recognize the huge strain that the Syrian conflict is having on Jordanians.
Al Zaatari is one of the biggest camps in Jordan near the city of Mafraq - it currently has around 80,000 people. This is similar to Bath in the UK and Napa City in the U.S.. Aerial photographs taken from a helicopter flying over the camp reveals tents and other temporary homes stretching over miles of the Jordanian desert.
There are 3,000 refugee-operated shops and businesses within its perimeters because there is no lack of entrepreneurial spirit in Zaatari. These include a pizza delivery service, barbers, hairdressers, greengrocers, coffee shops and even a wedding boutique.
Incidentally, one of the roads is named after the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Moreover, nearly 15.5 tons of bread are distributed daily while three boreholes provide 3.4million liters of water every day a day, which is distributed via a network of 82 trucks. In the summer, temperatures can reach 50C in the shade.


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#syrianrefugees #terrorists #CounterTerrorism While a proposal to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States has ignited a bitter debate in Washington, the reality is that there are more than 10 times that number of people from Syria who have quietly come to America since 2012.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 16 December 2015.

Some 102,313 Syrians were granted admission to the U.S. as legal permanent residents or through programs including work, study and tourist visas from 2012 through August of this year - this period roughly coincides with the devastating civil war that still engulfs the Middle Eastern country.
In the opinion of experts, any fears that terrorists might infiltrate the proposed wave of refugees from United Nations-run camps would be less when compared with the potential danger that is already there.
These Syrians have arrived on all kinds of visas and with green cards, and possibly U.S. citizenship. That makes it impossible for our counter-terrorism authorities to keep track of them all. Equally difficult would it be to prevent them from carrying out attacks or belatedly try to deport them.
The numbers have been obtained from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection - it shows 60,010 Syrian visa holders have entered the U.S. since 2012, including 16,245 this year through August. Additional numbers have been provided by a Congressional source and it revealed that another 42,303 Syrians were granted citizenship or green cards during the same period.
Most of these Syrians have secured legal entry before they arrive.

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