The UN agency charged with tending to Palestinian “refugees,” lavishly funded by the U.S., flagrantly violates American law and policy. Yet the State Department acts as its protector, sometimes even offering detailed defenses of its absurdly expansive definition of who merits refugee status.
For example, almost two million Palestinians who have long been settled in Jordan and have for decades enjoyed Jordanian citizenship are routinely counted as “refugees” by UNRWA, and the State Department supports it. This, in spite of the fact that, under U.S. law, a person who has citizenship in the country where he resides, and enjoys the protection of that state, cannot lawfully be eligible for refugee status. How can State justify this contradiction?
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