Because people who don't understand the UNHCR system are thinking with their hearts not their brains. Until the UN convinces the Gulf states to sign onto the various refugee treaties the burden of migration will fall disproportionately on the nations that have signed those deals. Additionally, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, which don't even have treaties that force them to take in refugees, are so oversaturated with Syrians right now that the world community should be helping them out.
Or, perhaps more to the point, someone (I'm looking at you, Vladimir Putin) should sit Bashar al Assad down and tell him to knock it off. In 2013 Syria had a population of 23 million. It's fantasy to think that a handful of countries are going to be able to absorb all those people.
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