Throughout this process, millions of euros (pounds and other currencies) have been designated to this humanitarian mission of saving Syrian lives that have been suffering from war since 2011, one can help but wonder, what is the United States doing? Given that this is a country which is characterized for supposedly acting on behalf of those who are unprotected.
Now, that they are actually in need of it, the country has taken long enough to respond to the situation raising questions of their good will. Regarding the matter, Secretary of State, John Kerry, assured that this Wednesday they will welcome more Syrians, although at the time being, he didn't mentioned how many they would take in.
"We commit to increase the number of refugees we take in and we are currently studying how many of them we can manage regarding the immigration crisis in Syria and Europe," mentioned Kerry after a Congress meeting
Of course, this vague answer wasn't enough to satisfy the harshest of critics and among the most outraged ones, there is one that blames Barack Obama's administration for not intervening in Syria's civil war.
Up until today, the United States is home to 70,000 refugees worldwide, but out of them, only 132 people arrived from Syria in 2014, a number that is well below in comparison to other nations.
A clear example of this has been the quantity that was announced in August by chancellor Angela Merkel, when she calculated that her country will take in 800,000 refugees before the end of the year.
Regarding the matter, politicians such as the presidential candidate of the Democratic party, Martin O'Malley have requested the country to act with leadership and overcome Germany's number. The real question is, why haven't they increase their help?
According to Republican Carly Fiorina, this is a sequel to the terrorist attack of 9/11, an event so traumatic that the United States hasn't been able to recover completely.
"Honestly, I believe that sadly the US isn't able to relax their admission criteria. We have to be very careful of who enter the country form those war zones to make sure there are no terrorist among them," confessed Fiorina to CBS.
Beyond an absurd allegation, this is a fear shared by the State's Undersecretary, Anne Richard, who supported said speech last June during a radio transmission. That way, the US hermeticism would be a product of a collective paranoia and culture of fear that has prospered since 2001.
Albeit, there is no fear of Syrian families, but the immigration flow might help to ease the infiltration of possible terrorists.
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