Imagine being miles away from your home, barefoot and hungry. In order to survive you need to find work on nearby farms, no time to even think about school, when you need to work for your next meal. You need to grow up and quickly because if you don’t who knows how long you’ll live. Your family is plagued with mental scars from the war you all fled, your parents have dreamed of a better future for you then what they experienced themselves, but it’s been made clear that that is not a possibility in the near future. It’s pretty hard to imagine this, because we have never experienced life during a war, we have never been forced into a position of having to take care of our families. Associated Press chief photographer in the Middle East, Muhammed
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In the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries, Jews, Italians, Poles, and other immigrants were misrepresented by the left-wing anarchist terrorists, who were the major terrorist group of the time. In the 1930’s many Americans were opposed to letting German Jewish refugees in because a Nazi could slip in. During the Cold War, people were opposed to letting refugees from Cuba, Hungary, Vietnam, the USSR and other communist states because some might be communist agents. Jen Smyers of Church World Service, a refugee aid group said “In 1980 we airlifted more than 200,000 Vietnamese refugees, and they’re now very, much interwoven in the fabric of our communities”(Quinton). In all of these cases we let refugees in and although there were risks the benefits of letting refugees in greatly outweighed them. America would have been considerably worse off if, we had denied them entry into the Country. Refugees are just trying to flee the brutal oppression and terrorism of ISIS, which is the very force we are fighting ourselves. The alternative to admission to the US or other Western countries is life in refugee camps, they provide little freedom and horrendous, inhumane living conditions. In reality it would be strategic to aid in the resettlement of refugees because it is exactly what ISIS doesn’t want. The less people they rule over the weaker ISIS becomes, and ISIS supporters are substantially more likely to stay put and fight for their cause in the Middle East (Somin). With so much proof of refugees assisting America why do we still deny more refugees from
In the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries, Jews, Italians, Poles, and other immigrants were misrepresented by the left-wing anarchist terrorists, who were the major terrorist group of the time. In the 1930’s many Americans were opposed to letting German Jewish refugees in because a Nazi could slip in. During the Cold War, people were opposed to letting refugees from Cuba, Hungary, Vietnam, the USSR and other communist states because some might be communist agents. Jen Smyers of Church World Service, a refugee aid group said “In 1980 we airlifted more than 200,000 Vietnamese refugees, and they’re now very, much interwoven in the fabric of our communities”(Quinton). In all of these cases we let refugees in and although there were risks the benefits of letting refugees in greatly outweighed them. America would have been considerably worse off if, we had denied them entry into the Country. Refugees are just trying to flee the brutal oppression and terrorism of ISIS, which is the very force we are fighting ourselves. The alternative to admission to the US or other Western countries is life in refugee camps, they provide little freedom and horrendous, inhumane living conditions. In reality it would be strategic to aid in the resettlement of refugees because it is exactly what ISIS doesn’t want. The less people they rule over the weaker ISIS becomes, and ISIS supporters are substantially more likely to stay put and fight for their cause in the Middle East (Somin). With so much proof of refugees assisting America why do we still deny more refugees from