| Mummelmann said: And this entire mindset of "we'll just set them to menial labor with low pay" |
To be fair, it isn't something specific to them. Pretty much every immigrant to a new country who already started out in poverty -- starts with these types of jobs. Most end up very successful in the end as they are hard working and can move up the economic ladder, and their children benefit from it. The biggest problem I can see with the OP's idea of allowing refugees to make less than minimum wage is that it would create a price-floor for everyone else and allow the refugees to be more competitive for jobs because they can price themselves less than others. This is not a good idea, and it wouldn't do well to assimilate them this way (it would cause animosity on both ends.) They should be subject to the same policies as other immigrants once they are here. They shouldn't get any more benefits or any fewer. Right now, they do get some benefits that immigrants don't get, which is a shame. But that isn't reason enough to keep them out.
I agree 100% with the other points. Most of the problems in the Middle East are blowback from 80 years of Western involvement according to the policy of Wilsonianism.
