“As long as I’m president we’re going to keep on stepping up and making sure America remains as it’s always been: a place where people, who in other parts of the world are subject to discrimination or violence, that they have in America a friend and a place of refuge,” President Obama declared Saturday, November 21, with relations to the Syrian crisis (Obama calls caring for refugees ‘American leadership’). A refugee is defined as a person outside his/her country of nationality who is unable or unwilling to return because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political group (http://www.immihelp.com/gc/refugee.html). The very first refugees
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In 1980 The Refugee Act was passed, which “created The Federal Refugee Resettlement Program to provide for the effective resettlement of refugees and to assist them to achieve economic self-sufficiency as quickly as possible after arrival in the United States” (The refugee Act-http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/resource/the-refugee-act). This act regulated the resettlement services for all refugees admitted to the U.S. As a result, of these Acts that were passed the US has developed a system to admitting refugees. Every year the Executive Branch is required to do three things 1) review the refugee situation, 2) project the extent of participation the United States can handle in resettling refugees, and 3) discuss why the United States should admit the proposed amount based on humanitarian concerns or national interest (information based off of USCIS website: The United States Refugee Admissions Program Consultation & Worldwide Processing Priorities). After the consultation with cabinet representatives and Congress a draft is made from the three things discussed above. The President must then sign …show more content…
CBS News provided a transcript of the democratic debate they hosted on November 14, which described the political opinion of the top two democratic candidates, Senator Bernie Sanders and former Sectary of State Hilary Clinton. In this debate, Sanders voiced his opinion claiming that the US, and also Europe and other countries, has a responsibility to help the Syrian refugees. He openly stated that he did not have a “magic number” on how many Syrian refugees to take in because “we do not know the extent of the problem,” according to CBS News (Democratic Debate Transcript: Clinton, Sanders, O’Malley in Iowa). On the other hand, Clinton does have a magic number for how many Syrians the US should take in, 65,000. She emphasized that the Syrian refugees need to be put through an extremely thorough vetting and screening process, which Sanders also agrees with. Obviously, Clinton believes that America’s economy can handle a greater amount than Obama. But, this leaves to question what about the other refugees around the world? Will she raise the numbers of them as well or will we just take in less of them? If she does raise the numbers of all refugees, this could negatively affect the
In 1980 The Refugee Act was passed, which “created The Federal Refugee Resettlement Program to provide for the effective resettlement of refugees and to assist them to achieve economic self-sufficiency as quickly as possible after arrival in the United States” (The refugee Act-http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/resource/the-refugee-act). This act regulated the resettlement services for all refugees admitted to the U.S. As a result, of these Acts that were passed the US has developed a system to admitting refugees. Every year the Executive Branch is required to do three things 1) review the refugee situation, 2) project the extent of participation the United States can handle in resettling refugees, and 3) discuss why the United States should admit the proposed amount based on humanitarian concerns or national interest (information based off of USCIS website: The United States Refugee Admissions Program Consultation & Worldwide Processing Priorities). After the consultation with cabinet representatives and Congress a draft is made from the three things discussed above. The President must then sign …show more content…
CBS News provided a transcript of the democratic debate they hosted on November 14, which described the political opinion of the top two democratic candidates, Senator Bernie Sanders and former Sectary of State Hilary Clinton. In this debate, Sanders voiced his opinion claiming that the US, and also Europe and other countries, has a responsibility to help the Syrian refugees. He openly stated that he did not have a “magic number” on how many Syrian refugees to take in because “we do not know the extent of the problem,” according to CBS News (Democratic Debate Transcript: Clinton, Sanders, O’Malley in Iowa). On the other hand, Clinton does have a magic number for how many Syrians the US should take in, 65,000. She emphasized that the Syrian refugees need to be put through an extremely thorough vetting and screening process, which Sanders also agrees with. Obviously, Clinton believes that America’s economy can handle a greater amount than Obama. But, this leaves to question what about the other refugees around the world? Will she raise the numbers of them as well or will we just take in less of them? If she does raise the numbers of all refugees, this could negatively affect the