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Sarah Elgohary                                                                        Islam phobia and Syrian refugees’ paper assignment 3

Position platforms debate

Introduction

    The Syrian refugee crisis started at the time of the Syrian civil war, which began was at the same time as the Arab Spring in 2011. The conflict in Syria began with antigovernment protests that divided Syrian citizens into two groups. One group remained loyal to their President Bashar al-Assad.  The other groups of people were against Assad’s regime and they were fighting for democracy in Syria ( BBC News 2016). .The conflict in Syria did become a civil war until there were pro democracy protests of people who wanted Assad to resign as President. Unfortunately, Assad did not resign. In fact, his retaliation to the protests and use of government force led to hundreds of thousands of Syrian citizens protesting across the country, in order, to fighting back against the Assad supporters and to free their country.   People who opposed Assad eventually began to take up arms, first In order to defend themselves and later to expel security forces from their local areas at this point it was a civil war. ( BBC News 2016).

Fighting between the two groups finally escalated to the capital of Syria Damascus and second city of Aleppo in 2012. “According to the United Nations In June 2013, the Syrian civil war has killed 90,000 people.” ( BBC News 2016). In addition, the United Nations also reports that by August 2015, that figure had climbed to 250,000.” ( BBC News 2016).At that point in time the United Nations declared The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.  BBC News 2016). This is because the United Nations found evidence that all parties involved in the Syrian civil war   have committed war crimes. These crimes included “murder, torture, rape and enforced disappearances”. (BBC News 2016). The United Nations also  have accused both parties involved in  the Syrian civil war   of using civilian suffering - such as blocking access to food, water and health services through sieges - as a method of war.” (BBC News 2016).  In August 2013 the United Nations discovered that Syria had chemical weapons after an incident in which hundreds of people were killed in after rockets filled with the nerve agent sarin were fired at several suburbs of Damascus BBC News 2016).Western powers said it could only have been carried out by Syria's government, but the government blamed rebel forces. BBC News 2016).This is until President Assad was facing the threat of US military intervention, only then DID President Assad agreed to the complete removal and destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal BBC News 2016). The chemical weapons are still being used today in the Syrian conflict.  Based on my research the discovery of chemical weapons in Syria was the final straw that led to the Syrian refugee humanitarian crisis.

The United States has a very anti Assad regime position on the crisis in Syria.  In fact, the United States thinks that president Assad is responsible for all of the war crimes and  tragedy In Syria .in addition , the United States believes that Assad needs to resign and there needs to be  a negotiable end to the conflict in Syria a peaceful transition of government. The Syrian civil war has ultimately  led to the development of a new global social phenomena. As a result, of the Syrian civil War , 4.5 million people have fled Syria, most of them women and children. (BBC News 2016).  In addition, countries neighboring Syria such as Lebanon, Jordan,  and Turkey have struggled to cope with one of the largest refugee exoduses in recent history. BBC News 2016). About 10% of Syrian refugees have sought safety in Europe, sowing political divisions as countries argue over sharing the burden. BBC News 2016). Furthermore, unfortunately 6.5 million people are internally displaced inside Syria, 1.2 million were driven from their homes in 2015 alone.  (BBC News 2016). All of these reasons are why I think the Syrian refugee crisis is the worst humanitarian crisis in history

Hilary Chilton supports the admission Of Syrian refugees to the United States.  Despite the fact, that there has been a recent spree of terror attacks; Hilary Chilton Still  Wants TO increase admissions Of Syrian refugees without a screening plan. She has a policy to increase Syrian refugees  By 500% In to the United States, (Leary 2016)  Furthermore, not only does she support president Obama’s plan to admit ten thousand Syrian refugees  in the United States, but she believes the United States Should be doing more to help Syrian refugees . In fact 

During an interview on CBS’ Face the Nation, Clinton was asked if President Barack Obama’s plan to increase the number allowed into the United States to 10,000 was enough. (The United States had accepted about 2,000 in 2015.) (Leary 2016)

Hilary cilltion said “Look, we’re facing the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II, and I think the United States has to do more, and I would like to see us move from what is a good start with 10,000 to 65,000 and begin immediately to put into place the mechanisms for vetting the people that we would take in,” (leary 2016)

In other words, She wants to increase admission of Syrian refugees from ten thousand to sixty five thousand refugees.   As a result, Hilary would have to change her admission Policy of Syrian refugees from a five hundred percent increase of refugees to a five hundred and fifty percent increase of refugees.   Another policy that Clinton has involves the resettlement of one million Muslims.. Under Hillary Clinton’s stated proposals, Muslim immigration would grow substantially faster, adding nearly one million Muslim migrants to the U.S. during her first term HARANRAN 2016) alone. According to the department of homeland security, the U.S. permanently resettled roughly 149,000 migrants from predominantly Muslim countries on green cards in 2014. (HARANRAN 2016) Yet Clinton has said that, as President, she would expand Muslim migration by importing an additional 65,000 Syrian refugees into the United States during the course of a single fiscal year. Clinton has made no indication that she would limit her proposed Syrian refugee program to one year. Clinton’s Syrian refugees would come on top of the tens of thousands of refugees the U.S. already admits from Muslim countries HARANRAN 2016

     On the other hand, Donald trump does not support Syrian refugees coming to the United States and he wants to ban the entire Muslim race from entering the United States.   THE only thing that I found on Donald trump’s website About the Syrian refugee crisis was a small paragraph called Refugee program for American children. The paragraph does not even mention anything specific about Syrian refugees or the civil war.  Trump’s plan for Syrian refugees if he even has a plan is vague. He wants to increase admission requirements for refugees and asylum-seekers in order to crack down on abuses. In addition, his plan also entail the use the money saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.  He gives off the impression that refugees from any countries let alone Syria are no big deal and they are not an important enough issue to spend money on. This is the complete opposite position from Hilary Clinton who is an advocate for Syrian refugees.  

Ted Cruz is the most interesting defeated presidential candidate because he dropped out of the race after Donald Trump falsely accused ted Cruz father of being involved  in the murder of John F Kennedy. Ted Cruz position on the Syrian refugee crisis is very critical and direct for many reasons. First of all he does not support admission of Syrian refugees  into the United States Furthermore, He has a very strong opposition to Obama Syrian refugee plan to let ten thousand refugees into the United States because he thinks that all Syrian refugees  are radical extremists who are following an ideology that justifies murder. He also wants to ban Syrian refugees from entering the United States like donned trump. He also thinks that if the United States over throws the Assad regime it would be a huge mistake because  Syria would be conquered by ISIS.  

Gray Johnson is libertarian minor candidate.   He supports the admission of Syrian refugees to the United States.  In fact, he believes that it is the United States responsibility to take in Syrian  refugees. Gray Johnson supports this clam during an interview --------- when he said “

 "When it comes to drones, I think it makes a bad situation even worse. We end up killing innocents and fueling hatred as opposed to containing it. It just hasn't worked. ttps://ballotpedia.org/Gary_Johnson_presidential_campaign,_2016/Syrian_refugees " as a result, like Ciilton  this statement proves that he believes that the United States needs to do more to help syrain refugees. He also briefly discussed the Syrian refugee crisis, saying, "We need to take our share, and I'm not sure what that share should be. I'd like to come up with a formula based on our coalition partners. I wouldn't say zero, but I don't know if 65,000 puts us in the category of 'our fair share.'"cite ttps://ballotpedia.org/Gary_Johnson_presidential_campaign,_2016/Syrian_refugees  in addition he also wants to make a new Syrian refugee plan, but unlike Hilary he  does not think that increasing admission of Syrian refugees from ten thousand to sixty five thousand  refugees is doing our share To help refugees.   

The democratic platform is very different from Hilary Clinton policies in many ways.    Frist of all the democratic platform is fifty pages long, but there is only one paragraph about the Syrian refugee crisis  in the entire platform under the heading of global threats not humanitarian crisis This is a very important finding for my research on how Syrian refugees  are that negatively represented by the media and politics in the most powerful nation in the world. With that said, people can not forget the fact that Hillary supports the admission  of Syrian refugees in the United States and she is trying to create policies to help Syrian refugees not to see them as a global threat. Therefore the democratic platform does not represent the true scope of the Syrian refugee crisis. In fact the the democratic platform contradicts what Hillary stands for.  The platform paragraph is just a very broad general overview of the Syrian refugee crisis with no detailed explanation on how the crisis started and no plan action by the democratic party to help refugees. The first two sentences of the paragraph are sending bad messages to the world. “The Syrian crisis is heartbreaking and dangerous, and its impact is threatening the region, Europe, and beyond.The first sentence  is very gentiric obvious , but at the same time  the sentence minimzing the the social problem of refuge. However In the second sentence there are two problem.   not only does the democratic party not provide a plan of acton for refugees, but they point fingers at Donald Trump’s  policy on banning Muslims by saying that he “ would inflame the conflict by alienating our allies, inexplicably allowing ISIS to expand in Syria, and potentially starting a wider war. “  cite www.presidency.ucsb.ed

 I found  nothing on Syrian  refugees in republican  platforms.  

   

Works cited

HARANRAN, @. J. (2016, July 15). Clinton to Resettle One Million Muslim Migrants During First Term. Retrieved September 26, 2016, from http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/07/14/clinton-resettle-one-million-muslim-migrants-first-term-alone/

Leary, M. P. (2016, June 15). Politifact: Hillary Clinton for 500% Increase in Syrian Refugees. Retrieved September 26, 2016, from http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/15/politifact-says-trump-right-criticism-hillary-clintons-support-500-percent-increase-syrian-refugees/

News, B. (2016, March 11). Syria: The story of the conflict. Retrieved September 26, 2016, from http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26116868