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Human Rights, Immigration

UNHCR

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. It also has a mandate to help stateless people.

Since 1950, the agency has helped tens of millions of people restart their lives. Today, a staff of more than 9,300 people in 123 countries continues to help and protect millions of refugees, returnees, internally displaced and stateless people.

For more information on the Syrian Refugee Crisis, please take a look:

http://www.unhcr.org/pages/4a02d9346.html

Immigration

We Are a Nation of Immigrants, So Welcome Everyone

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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

I think everyone knows these are the words on the Statue of Liberty. But America once again wants to close its borders against refugees seeking a better life. The Syrian Refugee Crisis is the largest refugee crisis since World War II. And as a quick reminder:

he Statue of Liberty Must Be Crying With Shame
The Statue of Liberty Must Be Crying With Shame

Let’s put some rational thought into the fear of terrorists:

According to 2011 data from 2011 National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) report:
1) The chances being attacked by a terrorist are roughly 1 in 20 million.
2) The likelihood of you drowning in a bathtub (1 in 800,000),
3) Losing your life in a car crash (1 in 19,000),
4) Dying in a building fire (1 in 99,000),
5) Being struck by lightning (1 in 5,500,000).

From this, I would suggest that all bathtubs be registered and placed in internment camps.

And welcome the Syrian Refugees!