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    The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Emphasizing that States have the primary responsibility to provide protection and assistance to internally displaced persons within their jurisdiction in appropriate cooperation with the international community, Recognizing the principle of non-refoulement as established through the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol and that all refugees are afforded the right to housing and resettlement, Reiterating

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    U.S. offering Syrian refugees asylum Currently, there is a huge debate on if the U.S. should offer Syrian refugees to move in. One of the huge reasons they are doing a huge migration and refugee movement is because of Syrian’s living conditions. An estimated 9 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war in March 2011, taking refuge in neighboring countries or within Syria itself. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, over three million have fled

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    visitors and ban the refugees who want to settle in the United States. This order ignited protests and riots among some groups of people who were and are still upset and want to help others who are escaping their country and coming to the U.S. to seek safety. The United States should allow refugees into its county. Allowing refugees into the United States has worked before; it is difficult to come into the U.S. as a refugee, and it is humane to help others. Allowing refugees into the country is not

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    Should US Accept Syrian Refugees? With an increasing number of refugees from Syria and pressure from the international society, last year, the United States made a controversial decision of accepting Syrian Muslim refugees. Though this is considered a reasonable humanitarian act, I believe that it could cause terrorist attacks and financial problems. First, we are not 100 percent certain about the origins and the backgrounds of the refugees. Currently, the refugees undergo very detailed background

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    The Refugees Essay Baggage we all have it and whoever says they don’t is lying. It haunts us everywhere we go and no matter how hard we try to get rid of it we never do. Whether our baggage is never having closure on a loved ones passing or old habits resurfacing, it all haunts a person deep down inside. People try to run away from their past by changing into people that they don't even recognize. In the novel The Refugees (Viet Thanh Nguyen), the characters of the short stories; Transplant,

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    letting less people as refugees into the U.S. and having a better system to determine what people are good or bad, is likely to happen because our president, Donald Trump, supports the idea of letting less people into the country from the Middle East and Africa and the majority of both houses of Congress supports having less refugees enter our country. Some refugees can be dangerous people and we are not sure if they could be terrorist or not. It is very easy for refugees claiming to be fleeing war

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    to these Syrians if they were well prepared and funded. Taking in Syrian refugees would have no help to Syria, be dangerous for American citizens and be an extremely ignorant move, considering we are not prepared for almost 50,000 refugees. Syrian refugees should not be allowed into America. If Americans do take in refugees, this will have little to no help to Syria. This will benefit the refugees, but taking in Syrian refugees doesn’t help the Syrian civil war or the war against the multiple terror

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    According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a refugee is someone who has been forced to their country due to persecution, war, or violence. Reasons why someone would be persecuted is due to their race, religion, or because of their political opinion. That’s why usually, these individuals are not able to return home because of their fears of persecution and eventually become refugees. They are forced to leave their home country and flee to other countries around the world

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    Many countries, such as United States and some European countries, choose not to accept these Syrian refugees because of the predispositions they have towards them. These countries fear terrorism, causing them to block off these people from entering their country. However, the concerns held by these countries are wildly blown out of proportion in accordance to the actual threat that refugees pose. The Syrian migrants should be welcomed in US and Europe because of following reasons: the stereotypes

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    As shown above, refugees have very good reason for fleeing, but that doesn’t fully answer the question of why countries such as the United States of America should help them. There are many moral reasons why first world countries such as the United States of America who can handle accepting and supporting these refugees should do so. The first and most important reason why is imply that by doing so, the United States of America would be saving the refugees lives. In Syria there is a high chance that

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