Essay On Refugees In America

The cost of a single person living in the united states is 12,863 per person. That's 51,452 for a family of four. Most Americans have to work multiple jobs to be able to live. Some get benefits, but there's not always enough benefits or “money” to go around to our american citizens, and there are still thousands of homeless people and families living in the united states. Yet we still seem to have enough money to bring people from disaster stricken countries to america. The fact of it is that we might bring over all these refugees and so much money is used, and they only see fractions of the resources, just enough to non-essentially keep them alive.
In 1991 the clinton administration offered an escape or asylum to the bantu somalis that were stuck in the middle of a civil war. The United States was going to start bringing thousands of refugees to american soil. By mid 2001 the united States and were ready to start bringing them to America. Then September 11th happened and the united states couldn't risk bringing over any possible suspects or terrorists. They decided to make refugee camps for them in Africa while they filtered through and rechecked every refugee. In order to get the camp set up and keep it and its employees running smoothly, the first initial cost was around 50 million dollars …show more content…
In the Film Rain in a Dry Land we learned about some of their hardships they still struggled with in america. While the most difficult thing was the language barrier in second place was trying to scrounge up enough money to buy groceries or pay the electric bill. When we spoke with Mr. Khadar Duhali he Informed us that they received 300 dollars a month for 6 months, this does include their food stamps. 300 dollars to live while they learned english and tried to adapt to their surroundings. That's 300 dollars for rent, utilities, clothes, gas money, phone company