The refugee crisis has been brewing for quite sometime. In light of recent events, the EU has finally taken action in regards to the event. The United Nations News Center elaborates in ‘Refugees need protection, not rejection,’ UN says in wake of EU-Turkey deal the current clash of how it should be handled. There is only around 72,000 open places for refugees to stay, so EU officials are scrambling for a way to negotiate with Turkey, which is overflowing with the refugees fleeing from the ruins of their home country. The EU has concluded that two days from now, they will now take one refugee in for every refugee sent back. Refugee resettlement is painstakingly slow, and the Turkey-EU plan is really only going to make the time it takes to resettle …show more content…
Plans like this could dictate the future of these thousands of people just trying to find a home after theirs was destroyed. After refugees fled their war-torn home, many refugees sought out passages in Greece and Turkey. There are around 150,000 refugees arriving in Greece from Turkey, and unfortunately, in a country like Greece, there isn’t enough room or governmental assistance to help them settle properly. Europe has been scrambling for a plan as people pour in, in poverty and desperation, without homes or prospects. Overall, there are an estimated 1.1 million Syrian refugees currently residing in Europe, waiting for possible relocation and assistance. The UNHCR finds that for this plan to be semi effective it must implement the following. First, Greece must accommodate as quickly as possible because human lives are at …show more content…
The MS St. Louis was a ship filled with Jewish refugees from Germany. They were denied access to the United States and a few other countries nearby, just like how the Syrian refugees have been denied access into certain countries during their flee from their destroyed homes. Reasons for turning the refugees away were somewhat similar, including blatant racism and xenophobia. After the MS St. Louis was turned from the US, it was forced to redock in Belgium where the refugees had to settle. As the Germans advanced to take over Belgium, it was estimated that many of the refugees on the ship were killed in the concentration camps the Nazi’s forced them