In 2014, over 200,000 Syrian people set off to Europe using unconventional routes by sea and land. As a result over 3.5 thousand of them have drowned. In 2015, nearly 2 thousand did not make it. Almost all of them go through horrible anti-sanitary conditions that result in diseases. Europe does not always welcome immigrants.
The Holocaust was a mass murder of Jews and other “unequal” groups which were targeted by a man named Adolf Hitler. The Syrian refugees are fleeing from their homes due to civil war. These two events are both important to learn from so that we can learn from them and prevent them in the future. Both are very similar and very different, and we should know all of the similarities and differences to avoid events like these from happening again. These two incidents are very similar in which they both involve refugees being killed and forced to leave their homes.
Refugees are often forced to flee their home due to war just like Ha. Today, more than 60 million refugees from the Middle East have fled their homes due to the advancement of ISIS (Graham,1). Like Ha, their lives will also turn “inside out” as they face a large amount of harassment from wherever they are able to find safety, but eventually they will find peace with whomever they are surrounded by and turn “back
Many people went to the United States, France, Great Britain, and Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland. Many countries rejected refugees, others let a limited number in, and some welcomed all refugees. The bible says “Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.”- Matthew 5:42 (biblestudytools). This quote is saying to always help someone when they ask.
Who does that. That not even being all. God showed his grace further in another incident where a man graciously helped us fix a part with very little cost. All of this with little financial support, and a bunch of children of God. True grace.
Although the U.S. is allowing more Syrian refugees in, it still isn 't much. Having already left Europe
So many of them are showing up on the Turkish border. Turkey already has approximately 2.5 million refugees from Syria in there country. This number can only increase from now and onwards. This is affecting Turkey’s economic situation because Turkey is sending humanitarian groups to come help at the border which is costing them some money, on the other hand Syrians are also getting jobs in Turkey that maybe some of the Turks could have had. 16.3% of the population is below the poverty line.
Should United States Help Refugees? Since the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and its allies, a wide political disturbance has occurred in the Middle East. As a result, Iraq witnessed a strong resistance movement to occupation forces, and a terrible civil war. Also, since then, people of some other Arab countries such as Tunis, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria revolted against their corrupt and failed regimes.
The Mediterranean refugee problems for over the past years have been increasing more and more. In the book there was a lot of talk about the crossing of an invisible line though more importantly who made this line. Refugee’s that have been forced from their own land to move to countries like Egypt in hopes to reach Europe. Over the years there has been over 2,500 migrants that has died either from the hands of the hands the people responsible for transporting them, too small boats, beating, drowning, and shipwrecks. In 2005 there was a strike force from Malaysia that was able to hunt down and fight against the unauthorized immigrants.
As we know today there has been a lot of talk about with the allowance of Syrian refugees into the United States. There has been a variety of responses in the US, which compares to what happened to the Jews during the time of the Holocaust. The Americans are responding to this situation very similarly to when the Jews tried to come and settle in during World War II. In comparison to the refugee situation, the Holocaust was very similar mostly by the responses that the US made. When the Holocaust began Jews tried to migrate as far as possible from Germany but as they did that they sometimes settled into countries that the Germans didn’t like which meant that the Jews would be captured.
Firstly, most Syrian refugees are concentrated in Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt. These countries bear the brunt of resources and efforts in aiding the refugees. For example, Turkey’s state expenditure on Syrian refugees was reportedly $6 billion as of 2015. This is enormous in comparison to the largest donor in the GCC, Kuwait; which spent $800 million in aid as of 2015. Moreover, Turkey’s GDP per capita in 2015 was 9125 USD, compared to Kuwait’s 29,300 USD.
Syrian refugees should not be accepted due to the fact it cost too much money, spread the fear of terrorism and may cause overcrowding in the eastern states. Accepting Syrians may even cause civil problems within the United States. Accepting Syrian refugees and settling them will cost too much money that should be spent within the U.S. For example “In Cleveland, for example, local refugee services agencies spent about $4.8 million in 2012 as they helped refugees get established in the area according to a study conducted by Chmura Economics & Analytics. But the economic impact those refugees had on the community weighed in at about $48 million, roughly 10 times the initial resettlement costs” Text 4 (Soergel 4)
The estimated number of refugees leaving their own country since World War II is one hundred million ("Refugee”). A refugee is a person who has left their country because of fear of their safety due to violence, race, religion, or war. Supporting and solving today’s refugee crisis is especially controversial because of the current events, financing, and security issues. ("Refugee Facts”). Climate change and natural disasters sometimes cause people to leave their homes or countries.
Leaders and governments around the world have labelled refugees as being a burden on their country either directly or indirectly. These leaders only see them as people who are trying to get into their country to escape the civil war, but fail to see that the refugees are also risking their lives in the process. At present, there are approximately 54.5 million refugees that are displaced, the largest refugee crisis the world has ever seen and they have nowhere to go. The question of doing the right thing and taking them in has been squashed due to various reasons and it appears to be that each country has adopted the ‘each man for himself’ policy by stating that it is their duty to only look after its citizens and no one else.
INTRODUCTION To start, it’s important to note that some people deny that we have moral obligations to needy non-citizens like refugees. For many, the state’s obligations are entirely towards its own citizens. If they acknowledge moral obligations to refugees, they are what philosophers call Good Samaritan obligations: obligations to help non-citizens only when the need is great. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE There are many cases in which countries have faced their own refugee crisis like when the US experienced its own refugee
