This one always drives me nuts because I can't think of anyone who would make a worse spy than a refugee. One you have to go to the government and register as a refugee, which makes your chances of getting any valuable information low already. Two these people often have very few resources or connections in the country they are settling in so their ability to get a job at the state department or dow chemicals to feed useful info back to their government is hampered. And finally it's just easiest to send people who have business or diplomatic connections, it's much easier to get info on a nuclear reactor when your company can put in a bid to sell the gaskets for it.
Truthfully the insane amount of vetting and investigating of refugees is a holdover of the post 9-11 security state in which anyone could be a terrorist and we needed security theater to mollify the dumbest and most coddled people on the planet that they weren't gonna be blown up on their way to the 7-11.
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This one always drives me nuts because I can't think of anyone who would make a worse spy than a refugee. One you have to go to the government and register as a refugee, which makes your chances of getting any valuable information low already. Two these people often have very few resources or connections in the country they are settling in so their ability to get a job at the state department or dow chemicals to feed useful info back to their government is hampered. And finally it's just easiest to send people who have business or diplomatic connections, it's much easier to get info on a nuclear reactor when your company can put in a bid to sell the gaskets for it.
Truthfully the insane amount of vetting and investigating of refugees is a holdover of the post 9-11 security state in which anyone could be a terrorist and we needed security theater to mollify the dumbest and most coddled people on the planet that they weren't gonna be blown up on their way to the 7-11.