{"id":62374,"date":"2015-10-19T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62374"},"modified":"2015-10-19T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:34:42","slug":"uruguayans-fed-up-with-syrian-ingrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62374","title":{"rendered":"Uruguayans fed up with Syrian ingrates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, the Uruguayan government announced their largely symbolic plans to take in five families of Syrian refugees. Folks in the coastal fishing village of Juan Lacaze pulled together their meager resources to help one such family. The government gave them a home and a monthly stipend and the community offered them jobs. They’ve been rewarded with nothing but complaints from the Syrians.The father of the family went so far as to threaten self-immolation. According to the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“I like Uruguay. I like Uruguayan families. My young children all go to school here,” Alshebli said in halting Spanish, standing in the living room of his sparsely furnished, multi-room home on the outskirts of Juan Lacaze. “But food is very expensive. How can I feed 15 children?”<\/p>\n

He showed The Associated Press a two-month winter electricity bill totaling $475 and said everyone in the family who is able works. For example his 19-year-old daughter Nada sells Arab food downtown and recently worked in an assisted living facility, but earned just $68 in a little under a month there.<\/p>\n

Alshebli also complained that the government won’t let him farm beyond the modest vegetable garden the family has planted.<\/p>\n

“No sheep. No cows. No land,” said Alshebli, recounting what he said officials told him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d stop making children, to start with, but that’s just me. On the upside though, no one is shooting at them – and that’s what the Syrians wanted to escape, right? That’s what all of the European government and news are telling us. The Syrians are not economic refugees, I’m told.<\/p>\n

Seventy-two more families were scheduled to arrive in Uruguay this year, but they’ve been no-shows. I think Uruguay dodged that bullet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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