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Write An Essay On Refugees In The United States

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Imagine your worst nightmare. No food. No water. No place to go to. No hope.

Deadly solitude. Stress and desperation… But someone wakes you up, you exhale with

relief, it was just a bad dream. Time goes and your nightmare dissolves in your busy life

and becomes forgotten. Unfortunately, for some people your nightmare is real life.

Some people wake up and live in nightmare — in your fear. Maybe it is not easy to

imagine it but there are millions of people in the world who suffer from this kind of life.

They are refugees. These people have different backgrounds, ethnicities, races,

religions. Their common dominator is that they are innocent people, families and

communities, even entire ethnic groups who were left without homes …show more content…

Also under the quote there is a small paragraph which gives more precise

information about refugees. Under the paragraph there is a UNHCR symbol which

indicates the organization who created the advertisement.

So what is exactly happening to these innocent poor people? What has forced

them to leave their homes and countries? Refugees have a well-founded fear of

persecution for race, religion, nationality, and political opinion in their own countries.

War and ethnic, tribal and religious violence are the leading causes of refugees fleeing

their countries. Thousands of immigrants from Africa and Middle East are trying to

cross over their borders for a better life. They walk through the underground tunnels,

swim in Mediterranean waters, and wait for years in temporary-residence camps. The

number of people that left their normal lives and homes, according to UNHCR

calculations, reached 60 million. 60 million refugee are out there in the world in search

of safety. More than half of the refugees worldwide are under the age of 18. This is the

worst humanitarian crisis of our time. These poor people have no money, no food,

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