Due to a civil war in Syria there has been an influx of refugees, seeking both temporary and permanent homes, primarily in europe and first-asylum countries. Although many of them have tried to relocate to the US, nearly all of them have been turned away. Many controversial variables keep the US from allowing large amounts of refugees in. One of those is that most have no means of proper identification, so it is very hard to know who we are really letting into our country. Even though it may put US citizens at a slightly higher risk, I think the US has an obligation to those less fortunate than us, and many more refugees should be taken in, or at least aided, than are now. In fiscal year 2012 only 31 refugees were resettled the United States, which is roughly .063% of the total 4.9 million registered syrian refugees. In 2013 and 2014, the numbers stayed relatively low at 36 and 105 respectively, they jumped to 1,682 in fiscal year 2015. Then, in 2016, 12,587 refugees were resettled in the US, a staggering number compared to just three years before, but it is still only .26% of the …show more content…
Former governor of Maryland stated the fact that “if the United States, a country of 320 million, granted asylum to 65,000 Syrians, it would be statistically akin to adding 6½ people to a baseball stadium holding 32,000.” As seen, even a number like 65,000 which is more than 500% of the number taken in 2016, would be a grain of sand in a sandbox. Currently, in 2017, at the first quarter, 3,566 refugees were resettled in the US, which puts it on track to be more or less the same figures as 2016. Even though these numbers are very large compared to previous years in the US, we have a lot of resources in the US, and it would hardly affect us at all to offer many more refugees a place in the