[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Livia

Oh dear... there appears to be some confusion over the statistics on the other thread. Let me explain that final figure amongst all those other figures...

11 United States - 1215 citizens per individual refugee.

16 United Kingdom - 319 citizens per individual refugee.

The UK has four times as many refugees as the USA. That's refugees in general. No one's saying that the USA has no refugees, but the fact is that they do not seems to have been called upon to take Syrian refugees because for some reason it's looked upon as a European problem.

you got that backwards...the US has taken in 4 times as many as the UK you meant to say...

and it is a European problem because that's where they are fleeing to. I haven't heard about a ton of boats sailing across the atlantic towards North America...SO it IS a European problem. the same way the Mexican border is an American problem...