“Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning To Be Free” – the inscription of the Statue of Liberty.
Refugees are people that have to move if they are to save their lives or preserve their freedom (Refugees) as stated by the United Nations. There have been refugee crises throughout American history particularly during World War II with European refugees and after World War II when people were fleeing the Communist regimes in Hungary, Poland, Korea, Cuba, China, and the Former Yugoslavia. Throughout this history, there have been some controversies with the acceptance of refugees into the country.
Recently with the Syrian refugees, refugee admission into the United States has become a big, controversial issue. The United Nations has already deemed it the worst refugee crisis since World War
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ambassador to Syria, argued for the motion that the U.S. should take the 100,000 refugees. I want you to understand that the Islamic State wants the Americans to reject refugees from Syria.
“The Islamic State wants the United States to say we don't want Syrian refugees. We don't want Muslims coming to the United States. The Islamic State wants to paint this as a battle between the Christian West and the Muslim world. That helps their recruitment. It's not an accident that a terrorist organization with links to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Somalia called Al-Shabaab that put a Donald Trump spot in some of their online recruitment materials. It helps them recruit. And so as we think about how to pursue the battle against the Islamic State, which involves military operations, diplomatic efforts to build a coalition, efforts to cut off their finances and other things, our policy on refugees must fit into that broader policy context. Otherwise, our right hand is undermining what our military diplomatic treasury department-led financial efforts are doing. We don't want that” (The