Many men, women, and children throughout the world are living everyday in immense fear of not knowing if they will live to see the next day. These people are being forced to leave their homes due to the fear of being persecuted for reasons of war, or due to being discriminated against because of their race, nationality, or religion. Millions of people have died in recent years, unable to seek the help that they are in desperate need of. Many of these people are being tortured by their own countries rulers. In Syria, the dictator Bashar Assad has even tortured children and has gassed his own people.
In 2015 alone, statistics show that for every minute, 24 people are forced to leave their home. The numbers have grown largely in recent years …show more content…
According to former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, when we allow refugees into our country, it allows more terrorists to sneak through the system. Mike Huckabee states that “We are just going to open our doors and we don 't have any idea who these people are, but we do know that only one out of five of the so-called Syrian refugees who went into Europe are actually Syrian. Many of them, we had no idea who they were. They weren 't Syrian.”. Although this may be a valid claim, according to Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst, the security threat posed by refugees in the United States is insignificant, and is over- exaggerated. Alex states that refugees pose very little to no threat to our security or to our country due to the refugee vetting system being so thorough. For refugees to even be permitted to come into the United States, they must undergo numerous background checks and must be thoroughly evaluated and must pose no threat to the United States. This refugee vetting system can take over one to two years to be completely …show more content…
But we must also consider what our moral obligations are for the people throughout the world despite all of these political factors. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights created in 1948 by the United Nations, describes what rights all human beings are entitled to despite their race, colour, sex, language, religion, political views, property, birth, or other status. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it states that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in spirit of
In 2015 alone, statistics show that for every minute, 24 people are forced to leave their home. The numbers have grown largely in recent years …show more content…
According to former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, when we allow refugees into our country, it allows more terrorists to sneak through the system. Mike Huckabee states that “We are just going to open our doors and we don 't have any idea who these people are, but we do know that only one out of five of the so-called Syrian refugees who went into Europe are actually Syrian. Many of them, we had no idea who they were. They weren 't Syrian.”. Although this may be a valid claim, according to Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst, the security threat posed by refugees in the United States is insignificant, and is over- exaggerated. Alex states that refugees pose very little to no threat to our security or to our country due to the refugee vetting system being so thorough. For refugees to even be permitted to come into the United States, they must undergo numerous background checks and must be thoroughly evaluated and must pose no threat to the United States. This refugee vetting system can take over one to two years to be completely …show more content…
But we must also consider what our moral obligations are for the people throughout the world despite all of these political factors. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights created in 1948 by the United Nations, describes what rights all human beings are entitled to despite their race, colour, sex, language, religion, political views, property, birth, or other status. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it states that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in spirit of