Analysis Of Stephen Collinson's Refugee Crisis

On a simple beach day, where the sun is blazing and the day is beautiful, there in the shore, appeared the body of a dead little boy, whom was struggling for survival. The article of September 4th, 2015, “Refugee crisis builds pressure on U.S”, written by Stephen Collinson, brings the awareness of the families fleeing from Syria, due to a civil war that is taking the lives of many innocents. Just like stated in CNN, ‘it took a tragic photo of a drowned toddler on a Turkish beach, to make the refugee torrent pouring into Europe a problem for America too (Collinson 2015, 1).’ When I first encountered this photo, on Facebook, it made me feel ashamed of society. Syrian families are running away through ill-fated voyages, across the ocean; some make it, but others don’t. The United States as of now has ‘so far only accepted 1,500 refugees from Syria’, but this process is perceived as complicated ‘by a long security procedure, meant to ensure that desperate refugees, are not forms of groups like ISIS’ trying to reach American soil (Collinson 2015, 2). This has become a political issue, as well as, ensuring the safety of our country. The refugees from Syria have created a

According to the textbook, Struggle for Democracy, Edward Greenberg and Benjamin discuss that America has “over 320 million people” and a diverse population. I think the United States has done a lot when it comes to helping in humanitarian crisis around the world, when it comes to helping out refugees all over the world. The Syrian war has been going on for the longest, and the only way to solve it, is by stopping the civil war ‘between President Bashar Al-Assad and rebel groups’ (Collinson 2015, 4). But if the United States becomes involved in other countries civil war, we can fuel more terrorist attacks to American