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The sharing of the image across social media of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi’s dead body washed up on a beach in Turkey has brought the Syrian’s plight into the eyes of the world. Thousands of men, women, and children make illegal and unsafe journeys across entire oceans just to get away from the conflict that is occurring in their home country. In view of the root of this horrible situation, one observes events dating back to 2011, when pro-democracy protests began throughout Syria. These protests displayed the anger prevalent among the people against President Bashar Al-Assad’s authoritarian government. The attempt by Assad to suppress the numerous protests with violence only induced more wrath from the irate Syrian people. Rebel militias …show more content…

This plan in discussion would require nations to take in refugees unless they had “justifiable reasons” not to, like a natural disaster, in which they would have to pay a fine (Samuels). The plan would also make sure every nation in the E.U. legally grants asylum to refugees by providing safe and reliable transportation (Samuels). This would be helpful for countries where refugees are causing the government to shut down public transportation, which is discussed in an informative article by Steve Hendrix of The Washington Post that involves northbound train stations in Germany. Hendrix describes that even though the refugees cannot use the train stations that have been shut down, the government still escorts about 2,000 refugees legally across the borders. He also says that the town’s reputation has been temporarily changed from the accepting, free flowing atmosphere that it once was. Therefore, the passing of the Refugee Distribution Plan would help distribute refugees according to a nation’s population, and this would assist governments in controlling the flow of migrants that cross the border using train stations.
The United States of America, Denmark, and Austria’s unwillingness to take refugees are evidence that the United States is fearful of people from this particular region, and that Denmark and Austria’s politicians feel that they do not have the resources necessary to take in an over

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