Refugees In America

Refugees should be excepted into the United States of America because it is constitutionally right. The individual right as a refugee is important. An argument is that this nation is built on Christians and the nation should be made up of just Christians. This logic is absurd! Christians are called to help those in need. Refugees are in need. the common good for everyone can be helped if we accept refugees into the US. The US should be expecting them because the process of vetting refugees for arrival in the US is Constantly being changed to make it very difficult for terrorists to be accepted into the US. Most refugees are fleeing for their lives. As a christian society it is this nation 's call to help. They are people too and have the right …show more content…
To protect the US from Terrorists we have a large process before any non american person can be accepted into the USA. FBI director James Comey gave his opinion on refugees. “ If someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no records of them.” This a good argument but the system to accept refugees is a very difficult and hard process to get through. Refugees coming to america has the hardest screening process in the world. There are actually 2 different process for them to go through before entering the USA. The process to accept a refugee takes from 18 months to 2 years, it can even be longer. Christopher Boain, United States high commission for refugees gave some facts during an interview. “If at any stage in the process there is even a slightest shadow of a doubt or slightest whisper of suspicion, they are removed from the process. That is it.” () The process is placed to help the refugees, if American is to scared to help them and let them come in then how will the refugees ever be safe? America needs to help the ones in need. The refugees are in need, they are coming to America because they need to be saved. They want to live and be happy, just like any other American. The background checks are in place to secure America 's safety and theirs. If they are not background checked there is a potential threat of a terrorist attack, but we have such a long process of interviews and monitoring in place before they get here that it’s virtually impossible for a terrorist to be accepted into America. From the best of our knowledge none of the people involved in the attacks on Parris were refugees. This means ISIS terrorist members would have to access American in a different