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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/world/europe/refugee-crisis.html

Because Europe has granted Ukrainians automatic residency and visas, Ukrainians are at the front of the line for housing and refugee services.
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The disparities have left activists like David Schmidtke, spokesman of the Saxony Refugee Council in Dresden, denouncing what they call a two-tier system that disadvantages and discriminates against asylum seekers from outside Ukraine.

“This is institutional racism,” he said. “There are two classes of refugees.”

In Germany and across the rest of the European Union, officials say the sudden scale of the Ukrainian arrivals has left the bloc with little choice but to offer automatic recognition and, therefore, direct access to services for which other asylum seekers often wait months and years.

If the aim is purely to clear the backlog, then why not in the same decision offer automatic recognition to the earlier arrivals also? We all know why not.

While Ukrainians are far and away the majority of new refugees, some politicians have blamed the strains on the system on asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and other places outside Europe.

Arithmetic not required.