Xin Ran Liu
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The article A Trickle of Syrian Refugees Settles Across the United States by Haeyoun Park October. 21, 2015 informs that the US President Barack Obama announced plans to resettle 10,000 Syrians in the US. This topic is significant because Obama’s decision has been controversial. Some critics say it's far from enough, while some Republicans warned that President Obama is allowing in potential terrorists. However, the United States should take in more Syrian refugees, since the U.S. is founded on the ideal of refuge and refugees contribute to the US society in many ways. The United States should take in more Syrian refugees due to the U.S. has historically been the world leader in recognizing the moral obligation to resettle refugees. “In 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War, when the fall of Saigon led to the U.S. sponsored evacuation of approximately 125,000 Vietnamese refugees.”, this studies show that Americans admitted many of Vietnamese refugees. Moreover, following the Vietnam War and the U.S. experience of resettling Indochinese refugees, Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980, which incorporated the Convention’s definition into U.S. law and provides the legal basis for today’s U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). As a result, the United States should take in more refugees as usual. The article A Trickle of Syrian Refugees Settles Across the United States reveals that Syrians is a small share of all refugees admitted in the United States. There are 92,991 Syrian refugee admitted by Germany, but only 1,854 Syrian refugee admitted by the United States. Even though the President Obama increases the number of refugees up to ten thousand, ten thousand is just an embarrassingly low number given the scale of this crisis when the U.S. has long been a global leader in resettlement. Therefore the United States must take in more Syrian