Fox Information’ Laura Ingraham and a visitor pushed again on Friday towards President Joe Biden’s pledge to accept 100,000 refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Clearly, our hearts break for the folks in Ukraine. It’s completely horrific what has occurred to them,” stated Ingraham, earlier than asking visitor Todd Bensman: “However is bringing all of them the best way to the USA of their greatest curiosity? And what concerning the U.S. taxpayers?”
Bensman, a senior nationwide safety fellow on the Middle for Immigration Research, advised the refugees could be higher off staying in Europe the place they’ve been supplied three-year residencies with related healthcare, rights to work and housing.
“So there’s actually no purpose in any respect for Ukrainians to be coming to our border or for us to be bringing in big swells, numbers of Ukrainians right here,” he argued. “They’re doing nice for a bunch of warfare refugees.”
“The problem is that they don’t seem to be asylum-seekers,” Bensman added. “They’ve asylum, proper in their very own neighborhood, so it’s somewhat bit disingenuous.”
“Then that makes extra sense. Okay,” Ingraham agreed.
Greater than 3.5 million refugees have now fled Russia’s invasion. Greater than half of Ukraine’s 7.5 million kids have been displaced by the battle.
The Biden White Home, saying its pledge on Thursday, acknowledged in a fact sheet that it anticipated “many Ukrainians will select to stay in Europe near household and their houses in Ukraine.”
However its raft of measures aimed to “assist relieve a few of the stress on the European host international locations which can be at the moment shouldering a lot of the accountability,” reported CNN, citing a senior official.
