Arguments On Refugees

Can you imagine that your little town is being attacked or even a natural disaster may be occurring and you have nowhere to go? What would you do? How would you survive? You would have to flee your home away from the tragic disaster. You would have no place to call home and all you would have is the clothes on your back. Some in the process of leaving their town never get to see their family again and are lucky if they survive. This is why I believe that refugees should be allowed into the United States under certain conditions. These include having a positive background, being eligible for a job and respecting our nation as well as the people in it. As the US turns refugees away, thousands of lives are being taken away. We could easily help them by taking them into our country. Although some people that enter the country may commit crimes, that doesn’t mean we should turn all of them away. It would cause way more harm than good. Most crimes that happen in the United States are caused by the people that are US citizens rather than the refugees. All of these innocent lives are just being taken away and as many Americans sit back and do nothing about it. When we could be out there saving lives. Our country has to step in and do something about this serious situation. There are solutions we could use to solve these problems by making sure all people that enter this country are good at heart. Outside of very few exceptions our country is mainly made up of refugees and

The side that doesn’t want them in at all is worried about Isis and maybe not all refugees are telling the truth. I can see that but it would be unfair to not let the good people in, who are suffering in Syria and countries of terrible war. The days have changed and something should be done about it, but to go against people that are only seeking for help and a better place, isn’t the moral thing to

Many U.S. citizens have no problem with Syrian refugees coming to America. According to both “Why America Could-and Should-Admit More Syrian Refugees.” and “Our Responsibility to Refugees”, The authors feel that The people of the United States are turning their backs on the refugees. In “Why America Could-and Should-Admit More Syrian Refugees.” the author says, “The United States has resettled over three million refugees, offering victims of persecution and conflict the opportunity to build a new life. Refugee resettlement is unequivocally safe. It would be wrong, both morally and politically, to curtail Syrian refugee resettlement, and why it is in fact both ethically imperative and politically expedient to instead expand U.S. commitment to refugee resettlement” (Long). This author sees nothing to fear from refugees. Furthermore, the writer of “Our Responsibility to Refugees” states, “The U.S. can do more and we must. Since 2011, more than 4.2 million Syrians have been displaced by war and violence, and fewer than 3,000 of them have resettled in the U.S. President Barack Obama has committed to resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. His administration needs to

It is no surprise that America has a lot of immigrants in the country, approximately 61 million (newsmax). However, America has been letting refugees in the country since World War II, saying: “Since World War II, the United States has accepted millions of refugees fleeing communism and totalitarianism around the world” (Bier). Now this can come into shock to many people who did not know this, and it should be. Why ban some immigrants/refugees now when we have been letting them in for many years. Many months before Trump was president, the Obama administration had successfully brought more than 10,000 Syrian refugees,saying: “More recently, the ongoing conflict in Syria has displaced six-in-ten Syrians, or 12.5 million, from their homes, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of global refugee data. In fiscal 2016, the Obama administration resettled 12,587 Syrian refugees, more than 20% above the original target” (Krogstad). Now this was before Trump banned refugees from Syria to come to America, which really shows you that we have been doing this time, and this was very normal. The Obama administration wanted to keep going into letting Syrian refugees in, but Trump is stopping them, saying: ‘The policies of the incoming Trump administration may affect the flow of refugees into the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has said he backs “extreme

To add on, turning down these refugees isn't going to in any way stop terrorism; it'll only make it worse. When defending gun rights, conservatives like to point out that when guns are outlawed only outlaws have guns, but the same logic applies to these refugees. If ISIS victims are banned from America, only ISIS will enter. For those same people saying that refugees could be terrorists need to open their minds for once and realize that the US refugee process is so long, so thorough, that it is probably the least efficient way for a potential terrorist to enter the US. Why would an ISIS terrorist sit and wait to be a refugee for two-three years to get into the US, when they could get a radicalized European citizenship and fly here on a visa waiver and then live here under the radar? What is really funny is how all the supporters of deportation and shutting down borders believe that immigrants will further injure the economy. For the US, it’s actually positive, because there are some gains when people come. They add to the labor force and add their

Statistics show that about 69,975 people were refugees and had entered the United States in the year of 2014. Most of them were shown from the following countries: Iraq, Burma, Somalia, and Bhutan (Mossaad 1). Over the years, the United States and other countries have tried many ways to block out the immigrants from coming into the countries but none of the laws or restrictions have stop the immigrants from coming in completely. At this time, President Obama said, “the amount of people crossing the border illegally is at its lowest since the 1970’s”. That must mean America is doing something right. The current US Immigration policies should not be reformed because the United States government is putting

The utterly diminished and persistently conflicted regime of Bashar Al-Assad has led to several forces, including numerous rebel groups, Kurdish forces, and even ISIL to occupy the war-torn country of Syria in a seemingly never-ending ruination. Most importantly however, it has also led to millions of Syrians becoming dislodged between the remnant regions with the deaths of roughly half a million citizens, according to the Syrian Centre for Policy Research, from a civil war that originated due to a series of protests and differentiating ideologies. The situation has lead for surviving Syrians, now properly known as refugees, to seek asylum in neighboring countries in Europe, but even including some countries as far as in the Western Hemisphere, particularly the United States.

At the moment, Syrian refugees are being subjected to the most precautionary methods when entering the country (Text 3). The Syrians are trying to escape the many violations they are faced with. In Syria, there are many bombings that are killing innocent people. Using precautionary methods based on race shows that America is well on their way to banning the refugees from entering the US. While Americans might think that using precautionary action is the best, they are supporting an unethical act. However, it is worse because they can do something to stop it, yet they refuse. Syrians are running from powerful individuals who have taken their rights, seeking asylum in America but they are almost treated the same because they are not trusted. If America were to ban immigrants from entering the US then they might be repeating history. During the 1940s, Hitler took it upon himself to purify Germany of Jews (Text 2). The action of Hitler led to a world War because of the unethical actions he took to get what he wanted. The fear of many Americans are holding them back from helping innocent children and women. If Americans can look past the fear of having their country destroyed by the refugees then they would be helping alot of people. Americans can provide a safe haven for the refugees but they are too afraid to allow

A refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, or persecution. Recently there are many debates going on, whether the United States should allow Syrian refugees to come into America or not. At the same time, there is a civil war in Syria between the government led by Bashar al-Assad and the rebels. As a result, there are thousands of Syrian refugees, without homes because of the civil war, attempting to flee the country and avoid both the conflict and ISIS. There are many States in America that don’t want to allow Syrian refugees to come into the America, because according to them they think that Syrian refugees can cause a potential security threat to them or maybe members of ISIS can enter into the

Accepting refugees in Europe has become a highly controversial problem in the past few months. Without a doubt, a large number of lives could be saved due to this ethical action; however, there has been a significant rise in protesting refugees. We should consider carefully the advantages and disadvantages of such a substantial

It is understandable that Americans are nervous about letting in hundreds of thousands of refugees into their home country. It’s a situation that can be explained with an analogy of a hitchhiker: Would you pick up a hitchhiker with your family in the car? However, many of these fears sprout from the irrational fear of terrorism, which, as CNN states, “the number of fatal terror attacks refugees have carried out in the US is zero.” (CNN Refugees and Terrorism) Not all refugees are terrorists, and not all

should just accept refugees to put an end to the refugee crisis is because most of the people living in the U.S. agree, they already want to help. “Cheryl Hamilton… hoped for a handful of donations and some volunteers to help resettle the refugees in New England. Instead, she was flooded with piles of donations and a small army of helper...” “Over 100 people signed up to volunteer.” these are quotes from an article in the Boston Globe newspaper titled An outpouring of Support for Refugees by Maria Sachetti. As you can see this is a clear example of people in the U.S. wanting to and already helping the refugees that are coming and are in the U.S.. One of the reasons they also want to help is because they know the definition of a refugee. “ A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reason of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.” This is the definition of a refugee according to the 1951 Geneva Convention and this is obviously a description of someone who does need help because they no longer have a place to call home. They can also possibly never return to their home “ Most likely, they cannot return home or are afraid to do

One problem with letting in refugees is the security risk. Refugees are coming in from dangerous countries like Syria, Iraq, and countries in the middle east. The reason they are leaving is because of safety reasons, but how do we know that they are not going to create a safety risk in our country. Refugees have to go through a lot of tests and they get searched before they enter the country, but can we trust the machines to detect anything that create a security risk?(Huffington Post 2) . Letting in the refugees can create terror acts just like what is happening in

People are coming into our country because they are in danger from war in there country, right away you would think that it is good to let them in because we are all safe, you would think were all safe at least, but i'm showing that refugees shouldn't be allowed in because they could be terrorist, they could and are bringing in illnesses, and camps are expensive and they cost you. This refugee crisis is so significant because it is happening right now and it is affecting people all around the world and it could so dangerous that if they came to our country and they were near you it could be very dangerous.

Asylum seekers in Australia always been the focal point of negative political concern for a long time. To stop asylum seekers continue arriving in Australia by boat, Australia enforces the policy of obligatory detention of asylum seekers, unauthorised asylum seekers arriving by boat will be sent to Papua New Guinea camp where operated by the Australian government (‘Asylum seekers: Australia’s shame’ 2017). However, this policy was reported as disgraceful because of the deficient living condition, indefinite and arbitrary of detention and lack of health care (United Nations 2017). Cohen (2011 p. 242) stated that moral panic could be more likely to develop in anything associated with 'immigration, migrants, multicultural absorption, refugees, border controls and asylum seekers’. Is Australia's response to asylum seekers an example of moral panic? By analysing the five criteria from the moral panic theory by looking at the Australian public reaction to asylum seekers with references support, it could be found that the reaction to asylum seekers in Australia is an example of moral panic.