Refugees And The Fresno Family: The Fresno Family

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The two articles both have a lot of similarities. They also have lots of differences too. Both articles are about refugees going through a tough times. The Fresno family could not work just like the Jews on the St. Louis ship, but they couldn’t work because they were on ships. Many people had lost their lives on the ship. Many people had died in Syria, also is what had made the Fresno family go on the run. The Fresno family are Muslims. They were not allowed to work, so their oldest son had worked to help his family for them. They were later placed in a refugee’s camp and had to escape. Their son was approached by United Nations officials who ask him if he wanted to take his family to America. Now they lived in the United Sates, and lives

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