Syrian Child Refugees from Venezuela Flooding Into Iceland for Some Reason

We should probably remember that Breitbart is trying to start a war with Venezuela because of the communist government’s views on Israel.

But seriously though – Iceland?

Breitbart:

Hundreds of Venezuelans that have fled Bolivarian socialism have sought asylum in Iceland, seeking to start a new life in an entirely different country with major cultural, linguistic, and economic barriers.

While the sheer majority of the over six million Venezuelans that have left Venezuela over the past decade are currently living in neighboring countries such as Colombia, Peru, and Brazil, Iceland’s Directorate of Inmigration reported that, prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the majority of accepted asylum requests accepted by the Nordic nation came from Venezuelan nationals, with 361 Venezuelan applicants during 2021 and 265 as of April 2022.

The number of Venezuelan asylum seekers in Iceland began to increase in 2019, with 180 Venezuelan asylum seekers that year, and was slowed down to 104 in 2020 due to Chinese Coronavirus travel restrictions.

For comparison, 2018’s statistics show that only 14 Venezuelans requested asylum in Iceland during that year, only two requests in 2017, and no Venezuelans are shown to have requested asylum in 2016.

Iceland, with its approximately 357,603 thousand citizens, is one of the most unlikely countries to have become a new home for Venezuelans fleeing from the socialist regime and its dictator, Nicolás Maduro. The weather, customs, and language are quite different from that of Venezuela and its proximity to the Caribbean.

The BBC collected the experiences of some of the Venezuelans among the hundreds now living in Iceland this week. Francisco Gimeno, project leader of Iceland Red Cross, said to the BBC, “the number of asylum applications is striking, taking into account the different climate, language and, above all, how far [Iceland] is from Venezuela.”

Anecdotally speaking, the prospect of Venezuelan nationals living in Iceland is so outlandish in the South American nation that this year a satire website published a joke article that narrated how a man from Caracas committed the first crime in Iceland in over 500 years, in allusion to Venezuela’s extremely high crime rate. Venezuelan media sites had to debunk it due to how viral it went.

The collapse of Venezuela’s “Socialism of the 21st Century,” once praised by leftists worldwide, has given forth to one of the worst migrant crises in recent history, which is still ongoing. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 6 million Venezuelan citizens (over 20 percent of the population) have fled from Venezuela.

The Venezuelan migrant crisis is only surpassed by the Syrian migrant crisis and now by Ukraine following the Russian invasion.

Other countries like Mexico have opted instead to crack down on Venezuelan migrants by imposing visa requirements – a decision that, according to Reuters, was done partly in response to requests from the Biden administration.

Is Breitbart implying that Biden is trying to help Venezuela, or that he wants those people in America?

I don’t know. I’m pretty tired of Breitbart. But the fact is, because they have a translator budget that we don’t have, they cover some stories that we can’t cover (and which the rest of the English media also doesn’t cover).

It must be nice to run a right-wing website and be able to run ads, process credit cards, get linked on Facebook, and so on. All you have to do is support the Jews. When you’re a Jew-supporter, they let you do it.