should the US receives refugees?

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Should the US Accept Refugees?
Introduction
No one can deny that the issue of refugee has been a menace to the international community. As a world super power, USA has been accepting refugees since the end of the World War II in 1945. Very many people have had to contend with harsh life in the overcrowded refugee camps across the globe. Indeed, the situation has become worse with the increasing tensions caused by civil wars as well as terrorist attacks. It is for this reason that the Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, Yemenis, Somalis, Nigerians, Pakistanis, Israelites, Cubans, Libyans and Egyptians have been fleeing their countries to safer areas. This paper argues that the federal government of US should accept refugees into the country.
According to official records from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a large percentage of refugees, in 2013, came from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, DR Congo, Sudan and Myanmar. I 2014, there was a 195 increase in the number of refugees, which shot to 14.4 million. Of this number, 50% were children and 25% elderly adults (over 60 years). These are vulnerable people who are in a dire need of support and should not be neglected (Czaika and Hein 497). They can neither cope up with the harsh conditions at the camps nor go back to their countries. They should be given a chance to relocate to safe countries like the US in which they can not only enjoy harmony but restore their lives. After all,…