Arguments On Refugees

For instance, they have to have a good background and they have to be watched in the United States to make sure they aren’t part of a terrorist attack. Also, some refugees are in serious danger from the country they are in now and really need a place like the United States to go to because of war and terrible events happening. Everyone in the country may not agree with what is going on and want to have the same culture as the United States. For example, Luma in Outcasts United didn’t believe in women being looked down in Jordan and as she visited the United States she decided she liked the culture and ended up staying here. There is two different sides in the government right now and they’re letting the refugees in but regulating them strictly, the other side is not letting them in at all.

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

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

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

Throughout American history, immigrants have been entering the country to avoid political corruption and civil rights violations. The United States have been a safe haven for many. According to the articles; The Refugees at Our Door, A Few Other Times Countries Banned Religious or Ethnic Groups and Feds to states: No, you cannot ban Syrian refugees, America has been a home for people seeking asylum. Attempting to ban refugees from entering the country shows how unethical the morals of America has become. America does not have the ethical right to stop the immigration of refugees, however, it is acceptable for Americans to have their reservations as to whether it is safe to accept strangers into their homes.

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

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

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

The United States federal government should accept the Syrian refugees. The refugee crisis is an international issue, and as an active leader in the international community, the United States should be doing its part in helping those in need. There are people who are in need of a safe place and enough food. With over 18 thousand refugees resettled in America, we are on the right track, but there is more we can provide. For example, Germany has accepted over one million refugees and, according to a foreign policy article in 2016, Sweden has taken 190,000 refugees in, which is two percent of its population. In this country, the federal government has helped relocate 12.5 thousand Syrian refugees, and while that is 12.5 thousand people helped, there are thousands more that need the aid as well. If the moral argument is not enough to push this country to provide relief in this crisis, perhaps the economic benefit would. Many Americans and citizens of other countries are worried about the impact of refugees on the economy. However, a Washington Post article soothes all doubts by citing several examples in various places around the world, from Cleveland, Ohio to Uganda, to say that refugees do not limit the economy of the country they are taking asylum in. It is true that there is an initial cost for helping refugees settle, paying for housing and food, but as time passes, there is a net profit for the federal government. Bringing in new possible-workers and

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

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

What even is the refugee crisis? There has been a war going on in Syria that started on March 15, 2011 and it is a civil war and it is causing syrians to try to get over to America and some other countries are trying to come over too. So what our President did about this is he made the travel ban which banned Syria, North Korea, Iran, Chad, Libya, Yemen, and under certain conditions banned Solmania and Venezuela. Lots of these bans are because of refugees. More than 11 million refugees are on the run just in Syria trying to migrate to a place. The UN (United Nations) identified that 13.5 million Syrian refugees are requiring humanitarian assistance while 6 million are internally displayed in Syria while 5 million are outside of Syria. Lots of them fled to Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey while they hoping that the war would soon end in Syria. In 2015 around a million refugees

The first reason why the U.S should let refugees in is because the U.S has been letting refugees in for over 200 years and why should they stop now. At the same time when other countries are having the worst wars in that country's history. The first piece of evidence comes from the article The refugees Americans have fought against for over 200 years by Anna Swanson. She is a reliable source because she has interviewed people that were

Although in the past human rights issues were avirtually not allowed to enter the global discourse on refugees under the erroneous assumption that the refugee problem, as a humanitarian problem is quite distinct from a human rights problem, the current trend is towards integration of the human rights law and humanitarian law with refugee law. The growing realisation that given the number, size and complexity of the problem of refugees the limited approach to the problem which was devised in the context of the postsecond world war refugees and which placed greater reliance on safety and welfare, rather than solutions to the problem and virtually relieved the refugee producing countries from their responsibilities towards their nationals living

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.