Should Refugees Be Allowed To The United States?

After the lengthy and painful election process that the United States had to witness, the word refugee may still be ringing in our heads. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the major party candidates, threw around the word with seemingly opposite connotations. The online Webster’s dictionary even goes so far as declaring it one of the top 20% of words in public use. Though it defines refugee as: “someone who has been forced to leave a country because of war or for religious or political reasons,” major political figures and common people alike have associated it with either a potential for terrorism or a need to protect and help as many of these people as possible.
Currently, 46% of refugees admitted to the United States follow Islam. The most frequently discussed nationality when it comes to refugees, Syrian, has a 99% Muslim population entering the United States. As such, Islam is the rule, not the exception, when it comes to the modern definition of …show more content…
Furthermore, she wants to establish ways to provide easy movement of those people. She stands as a sort of face for the Democratic Party. Though there is a bit of a split of political opinion among its members, the general consensus is to increase allowance of refugees. Recently, this country has seen an increase of partisanship and an intense divide within this nation’s people. Democrats and Republicans have become increasingly separate from each other, and even the parties themselves have had a veritable civil war between remaining moderate or adopting more extreme beliefs. She ran her entire campaign on the platform of trying to unite and please all members of her party. Though her actual success at this is debatable, she proclaimed this belief to reflect the current opinion of the left-minded