Refugees In America

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Recently Americans have had the issue of whether or not to take in the refugees from Syria, but if you look at all the problems they could bring into this country, there is no moral obligation for America to take in refugees. Refugees could drag down the economy by taking jobs from citizens or using tax payers money for welfare and etc. They could also bring diseases such as hepatitis, typhoid, cholera or dysentery are just a few that Syria is expecting to outbreak with the crowding of their people. They could even drugs into the country according to Ara News a lot of them trade with drugs.
Bringing more people into America would take jobs away from citizens. According to the United States department of labor, 5.1 percent of people in the United

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