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refugee convention created the unhcr, which still exists. it was first charged with resettling and taking care of what the u.s. does call or did call a displaced person. there was a lot of resistance to this in the united states. in fact the united states did , not ratify the treaty. there was a displaced persons -- person act passed in 1948, which allowed some people to come into the united states. then of course, we had the immigration and nationality act passed in 1952, which is still our basic law. all the laws after that are amendments to that law. there are no provisions for asylum in that act. but before 1980, the president used -- presidents used their executive authority and congress passed a law to allow certain people to enter the united states, almost exclusively based on foreign-policy considerations rather than humanitarian. the focus, of course, was the fight on communism. so, the government did not see any need at that point to really look at individual situations. i can name a few of these programs. one has been referred to

think unhcr has a very difficult job. it is an agency that has done tremendously good work over the course of decades. it has a particularly difficult context in which to operate when it is asked to do work in europe. its major funders come from europe. it is is hard to go against the will of your funders. the e.u. should of said this earlier, what was so striking in the e.u. response additionally to the crisis was that the e.u. did not want international help. the first reason why there was not an international response quite honestly was because the european union did not go to the united nations and asked for help, it did not want outside interference because potentially it did not want to be told, i think there's different logics to this and i can give me different reasons why they may not have wanted it but one reason is they do not want the un to tell it what to do. but when the e.u. failed itself to address the problem it got the rest of the world off the hook because it said we can manage it, we could not manage i

that began to be modified in 2015 which unhcr was instructed to stop registering refugees from syria and sponsorship system was put in place and new more string ebt residency renewal regulations were also put in place, which then left syrians open to possible detention and deportation for staying in lebanon without the right paperwork. the political context here is also very important and it was alluded to earlier in one of the questions. lebanese government -- the best one can say about it, it's in gridlock. lebanon has not held a presidential election since 2008. the president who was elected then, his term expired in 2014, lebanon is being governed by the council of ministers of the cabinet where we have different ministries controlled by different sectarian groups which limits the possibilities for cooperation and coordination of policies. and the lebanese government historically has been ill-inclined to attend the needs of its own citizenry and that has certainly not changed in this particular situation. this kind of absentee state will not feel overly compelled to ease the burd

important and they too have face cuts and assistance in poverty rates, recent cuts you may have note that unhcr is the agency that deals with refugees around the world. they do that, there's a separate agency that deals exclusively with palestinian refugees and that is you and rwa and that is -- so they have separate funding so the cuts taking place recently significantly affected humanitarian conditions for palestinians. palestinians have arrived in 1948, they have been restricted into the economy in which they have been illegally work so there generally, they generally find themselves unless they're paid which is further increases in poverty levels. now the palestinians in some ways are affected by what is happened because of the way the relations and a number palestinians factions had with the government in damascus. because of what has happened in the damascus the palestinian groups have found themselves increasingly under siege in lebanon so in effect their protector so the government as a protector of any sort has been undermined. so we can look to syria as a major ally. let me turn final

that can be modified in 2015 when unhcr was instructed to stop registering refugees from syria and thena sponsorship system was put in place a new, more stringent residency renewal regulations were put in place. which then lets syria's open to possible detention, deportation for entering from working or sing without the right paperwork. the political context is very important and who's eluded you in one of the questions. lebanese government is currently, the best one can say about it is it's in gridlock. lebanon has not held a presidential election since 2008. the president who was elected in, his term expired in 2014 basically lebanon is being governed by the council of ministers of the cabinet were we have different ministries controlled by different sectarian groups which limits the possibilities for cooperation and coordination of policies. the lebanese government historically has been ill inclined to attend to the needs of its own citizenry, much less the needs of refugees and so that has not changed in this particular situation. this absentee state will not feel overly compelled t