From the other thread - the more I think about this screenshot from International Organization for Migration (IOM), the more it disturbs me. I think the picture we had of migrants, is of desperate people fleeing war-torn countries on foot. I don't think anyone of us thought of refugee migration as a process which is coordinated and scheduled by NGOs, done with chartered flights. Who decides how to schedule flights, which countries to schedule them, which migrants get these flights? The US paid IOM a million dollars for chartered flights of 12,000 Lebanon refugees in 2006, but there were nearly a million Lebanon refugees total. How was that 12,000 chosen? And what's more, the document seems to lay responsibility for "reception arrangements" on the country of origin and even seems to warn against returning migrants. All this strongly points to a globally coordinated effort, decades in the making, to set up an infrastructure to transport millions of "refugees" without any corresponding infrastructure for them to return home. This leads to the conspiracy thought that if this infrastructure for mass one-way migration in place was done knowingly, then destabilization of the country of origin may have been intentional, as well. That's just ... horrid for everyone involved. Migrants and Westerners alike. Side note: the International Republican Institute (the official Republican Party "soft power" NGO) gave IOM grants.
