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Nyland Daily News
President drops limits on refugee entries
By Wong Wei
Published: 12 Dein, 1582
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Nyland Customs and Border agents at Folkestad's Albrecht Lund Airport check papers
and documents for asylum seekers from Oslanburg. Photo taken 10 Dein.
FOLKESTAD - In the continuing use of his executive power, President Kohout has once again made news, as he signs an executive order effectively removing limits on refuge and asylum seekers.
While not the sole reason, the change in immigration posture comes off the back of continuing and growing violence in Oslanburg, which has sparked a historic high in asylum applications from that country not seen since fascists and the late Ibsen usurped government power in the country. While not a particularly large number - and certainly eclipsed by other conflicts such as Tambossa in the past and New Galasia in the present - the troubles in Oslanburg are just the latest in a long line of situations around the world that have generated historically high numbers of refugees and asylees around the world for the last decade.
But now, President Kohout has gone futher than any recent president by not just raising refugee limits, but removing the limits altogether, effectively putting refugees and asylees on equivalent footing. Already in the past couple days, tens of thousands more individuals and families previously skeptical of their chances to earn refugee status have applied for refuge under the new rules, mostly New Galasians currently flooding refugee centers in Angiris, with great rise in many more applications expected in the coming days and weeks.
However, the removed limits on refugees aren't an open door. First, they must apply, and are still subject to having those applications denied under all the same grounds. Furthermore, according to the State Department, new applicants are still subject to extensive interviews and background checks before being admitted into Nyland with their coveted permanent status, a process that may take anywhere from several months to several years, depending on country of origin and the circumstances of their flight.
"Nyland's vetting processes have been continually improved across nearly a decade, and three presidents," a State Department spokesman is quoted as saying. "Nylanders have never been safer, and this release of refugee limits is simply a sign of confidence in the skill and professionalism of the immigration, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies involved in the refugee process."
This affirmation has done little to quell dissent from certain quarters. Already several Ultranationalist-led states have pledged to refuse any and all future refugee resettlement within their borders, should the president not reverse his decision, citing both security and economic concerns. The Kohout administration thus far has refused to budge, dismissing concerns as "political posturing couched in lies."
"The basic fact here is that refuge and asylees are the safest and most law-abiding members of our society," White House spokesman Benjamin Geathers commented during the press conference. "They are grateful and hardworking, respectful of our law, mostly quite educated, and often the drivers of great economic growth and development in our nation throughout history. What's more, how can we really call ourselves the greatest nation, the free-est and most just nation, a compassionate and a bastion of liberty, if we turn away those in need because we reached a hypothetical, arbitrary limit designed to protect the sensibilities of morally bankrupt sociopaths scared of anyone that doesn't look, speak, or act like them."
President drops limits on refugee entries
By Wong Wei
Published: 12 Dein, 1582
Nyland Customs and Border agents at Folkestad's Albrecht Lund Airport check papers
and documents for asylum seekers from Oslanburg. Photo taken 10 Dein.
FOLKESTAD - In the continuing use of his executive power, President Kohout has once again made news, as he signs an executive order effectively removing limits on refuge and asylum seekers.
While not the sole reason, the change in immigration posture comes off the back of continuing and growing violence in Oslanburg, which has sparked a historic high in asylum applications from that country not seen since fascists and the late Ibsen usurped government power in the country. While not a particularly large number - and certainly eclipsed by other conflicts such as Tambossa in the past and New Galasia in the present - the troubles in Oslanburg are just the latest in a long line of situations around the world that have generated historically high numbers of refugees and asylees around the world for the last decade.
But now, President Kohout has gone futher than any recent president by not just raising refugee limits, but removing the limits altogether, effectively putting refugees and asylees on equivalent footing. Already in the past couple days, tens of thousands more individuals and families previously skeptical of their chances to earn refugee status have applied for refuge under the new rules, mostly New Galasians currently flooding refugee centers in Angiris, with great rise in many more applications expected in the coming days and weeks.
However, the removed limits on refugees aren't an open door. First, they must apply, and are still subject to having those applications denied under all the same grounds. Furthermore, according to the State Department, new applicants are still subject to extensive interviews and background checks before being admitted into Nyland with their coveted permanent status, a process that may take anywhere from several months to several years, depending on country of origin and the circumstances of their flight.
"Nyland's vetting processes have been continually improved across nearly a decade, and three presidents," a State Department spokesman is quoted as saying. "Nylanders have never been safer, and this release of refugee limits is simply a sign of confidence in the skill and professionalism of the immigration, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies involved in the refugee process."
This affirmation has done little to quell dissent from certain quarters. Already several Ultranationalist-led states have pledged to refuse any and all future refugee resettlement within their borders, should the president not reverse his decision, citing both security and economic concerns. The Kohout administration thus far has refused to budge, dismissing concerns as "political posturing couched in lies."
"The basic fact here is that refuge and asylees are the safest and most law-abiding members of our society," White House spokesman Benjamin Geathers commented during the press conference. "They are grateful and hardworking, respectful of our law, mostly quite educated, and often the drivers of great economic growth and development in our nation throughout history. What's more, how can we really call ourselves the greatest nation, the free-est and most just nation, a compassionate and a bastion of liberty, if we turn away those in need because we reached a hypothetical, arbitrary limit designed to protect the sensibilities of morally bankrupt sociopaths scared of anyone that doesn't look, speak, or act like them."