Syrian Refugee Crisis
The Real War
There are many issues that plague us, not only as a nation but as a human race. The Syrian Refugee Crisis is something that affects thousands upon thousands of innocent people. It is devastating for many, and they are rendered helpless as their homes are destroyed and the lives of their loved ones are lost. Many countries have kindly welcomed these batter victims, allowing a safe haven for millions of these grateful Syrian refugees. Americans have been anything but eager to help; despite the flaring disagreements, America needs to open its borders and pull its weight as the great nation it is. This means that we need to open our arms, and welcome more of the many suffering Syrian refugees.
With this being the twenty first century, …show more content…
Self-employed or innovating immigrants help create jobs and new migrants help to fill job shortages. So it's quite easy to see the benefit from having these refugees living alongside us. They help our financial situation as a country, an area in which we could use all the help we can get. With that it's clear to se that Americans should be opening their doors for these refugees.
With the memory of 9/11 still seared into the minds of Americans, one concern seems to endlessly gnaw at the back of our minds: terrorists. This makes us quite hesitant to accept suffering refugees into our home. While we tend to think of immigrants as automatically predisposed to crime, the opposite is actually the truth. In 2008 a report by the Public Policy Institute of California discovered that immigrants are actually underrepresented in the prisons.
As it stands now, natives are more likely to commit crimes than immigrants. This may seem surprising, but in 2005 the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reported that new immigrants are less likely to commit crime than their predecessors. It also seems significant to say that if the very large majority of the American population are immigrants; this means that somewhere in our ancestry we came from a country other than the United States. With that in mind it would make sense to give these war ravaged refugees the benefit of the
There are many issues that plague us, not only as a nation but as a human race. The Syrian Refugee Crisis is something that affects thousands upon thousands of innocent people. It is devastating for many, and they are rendered helpless as their homes are destroyed and the lives of their loved ones are lost. Many countries have kindly welcomed these batter victims, allowing a safe haven for millions of these grateful Syrian refugees. Americans have been anything but eager to help; despite the flaring disagreements, America needs to open its borders and pull its weight as the great nation it is. This means that we need to open our arms, and welcome more of the many suffering Syrian refugees.
With this being the twenty first century, …show more content…
Self-employed or innovating immigrants help create jobs and new migrants help to fill job shortages. So it's quite easy to see the benefit from having these refugees living alongside us. They help our financial situation as a country, an area in which we could use all the help we can get. With that it's clear to se that Americans should be opening their doors for these refugees.
With the memory of 9/11 still seared into the minds of Americans, one concern seems to endlessly gnaw at the back of our minds: terrorists. This makes us quite hesitant to accept suffering refugees into our home. While we tend to think of immigrants as automatically predisposed to crime, the opposite is actually the truth. In 2008 a report by the Public Policy Institute of California discovered that immigrants are actually underrepresented in the prisons.
As it stands now, natives are more likely to commit crimes than immigrants. This may seem surprising, but in 2005 the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reported that new immigrants are less likely to commit crime than their predecessors. It also seems significant to say that if the very large majority of the American population are immigrants; this means that somewhere in our ancestry we came from a country other than the United States. With that in mind it would make sense to give these war ravaged refugees the benefit of the