A couple of days ago NPR published a piece on the plight of the Eritrean refugees in Israel, highlighting the complaints that Israel has been slow to process asylum applications, leaving refugees in legal limbo while the applications are pending.
Interestingly, searching NPR's website, I did not see any stories about the plight of the Eritrean refugees in Egypt, where they are kidnapped for human trafficking. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/21/in-sinai-i-saw-hell-refugees-are-easy-prey-for-bru/?page=all. I also did not see any stories on NPR about the plight of the Eritrean refugees in Jordan, where they are deported to Yemen, or stories about Eritrean refugees in Yemen, where they are imprisoned. http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/15/jordan-don-t-deport-eritrean-refugees-yemen http://www.unhcr.org/4de64e9a6.html. Better to just complain about Israel, where they are "slow to process applications."
The story about the refugees in Israel also did not mention that these refugees currently number about 1% of the population of Israel -- a big number for such a small country. That's like 3 million asylum seekers coming to the US in less than two years, all of whom need assistance with food, housing, education, employment, and language, all at taxpayer expense. Usually the US gets less than 100,000 asylum seekers a year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_in_the_United_States That was also not mentioned in the story.
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