Should America Take in Syrian Refugees?

Austin Murdock

Mrs. Bragg

English 12

December 8, 2015

Should America Take In Syrian Refugees?

If you had a chance to save people, yet risk your own, would you? It can be a world of trouble we if let those innocent people perish. America would be the face of ignorance, it simply cannot happen. Studies show that America was founded upon immigrants. Yet, these were the ones who wanted America to thrive and prosper. The United States is a strong country, which has a weak spot for terrorism. We have battled these bottom feeders for almost twenty years. These countries have been at war with themselves. Those countries include Syria, Iraq and other countries.

What comes with war? Refugees are a potential threat for radicals with Islamic beliefs. The same Syrians that have fled those countries have become too big of a hand full for those other countries. Since they have nothing they can do with them, they call America. The United States has taken in some of those Syrians. In the recent times some ISIS trained terrorist have committed terrible acts on Paris. As Americans, we enjoy a lot of freedoms and liberties through our everyday life. This is one of the things that make our country so special. This comes at a cost; we as Americans have become very vulnerable to acts of terror. Letting tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into the country is too big of a risk to our security and our wellbeing.

These refugees have been trying to host themselves to multiple countries; some have turned them down. Russia wants to come together with America, and bomb Syria ending all of the civil war. Then, allowing all of the refugees coming to Syria and live peacefully. America can take the refugees already in this country, and simply put them where they belong. These are the few things that we as a country need to take up on. America simply cannot afford any foreign refugees to be settled in our country, while all other aliens have to take a test to prove and show that they can be in America. Studies show since the Syrians have been here we have spent over a billion dollars. American is in a state of decreasing financial stability. All of the wars that this country has been in, it are extremely hard for our government to expand.

All this began with the civil war between Syria and other surrounding countries. This huge war erupted, everything was bloody and