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Refugee Services of Texas Austin (RST) is a not-for-profit social services agency that provides services to newly arrived refugees, asylees, parolees, survivors of human trafficking and any other expatriate escaping persecution appertaining to race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, and/or political opinion. Since its initiation in 2003 in Austin, TX, RST has provided resettlement services to over 15,000 refugees. RST is funded by both state and national partners and includes former refugees on its staff, who collectively speak over 16 languages appropriate for this program. The agency allies with organizations in the local community, public and private groups, as well as faith-based entities to augment and strengthen…
With higher risk of gang brutality and homicide, many children, teenagers, and families are choosing to leave their countries and seek asylum in the United States. For example; July, a 32 year old woman dealing with the violence in her town alongside her three children. “For eight years, July’s family has been struggling with the gang and narco-cartel violence that has overtaken many areas of her country. On Oct. 29, 2007, her brother, Carlos Luis Pérez, a skinny 22-year-old, was kidnapped and then found dead two days later in a sewage ditch, his hands and feet cut off.” ( Sonia Nazario. “The Refugees at Our Door.” nytimes.com. October 15, 2015. Web. January 6, 2016.) With regular killings, the danger of living in gang infested towns…
Mary Midgley starts her article, "People and Non-Persons" by discussing the trial of two individuals who, in 1977, set free two dolphins utilized for experimentation purposes by the University of Hawaii's Institute of Marine Biology. One of the men on trial, Kenneth Le Vasseur, explained that he released the dolphins because they were suffering from both mental and physical harm. The defense team attempted to use the “choice of evils defense” which allows an individual to choose to commit a crime to avoid a greater evil or crime against “another”. The judge ultimately rejected this defense strategy because he stated that a dolphin was not considered to be “another” (as in a human), but instead should be considered property.…
Very often, people do not know what a refugee is, and what they have to go through, and once they do get informed about whom they are and their characteristics, they compare them to immigrants. What they don’t know is that these two peoples are very common but only come to a new country because of different reasons.…
Many issues mention if assisting someone to kill themselves is illegal or not? Euthanization which is to end a person's life due to them suffering. The act of assisting suicide is assisting or encountering the other person to kill themselves. There are several classifications of euthanization; active and passive. “Three states have passed laws legalizing assisted suicide in certain limited circumstances. Under Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, physicians can prescribe lethal medication that will allow terminally ill individuals to end their lives. ” Oregon and two other states are the only one in the United States that don’t consider assisting suicide a crime. Since only 3 states have allowed it and the majority of the nation defines it as illegal…
The early 1980s were times of tension and turmoil the government and citizens of Central America. Over one million Central Americans fled to the United States seeking political asylum due to the violence from Civil Wars in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The militaries killed thousands of people, including Archbishop Oscar Romero and four Catholic Sisters. Along with violence, these nations also became stricken with poverty and economic depression, spurring large-scale migration to the United States.…
The refugees are more likely to have the common support in our community because of the misconceptions about homeless people being associated with drugs and other personal consequences. Refugees were once a group of human beings who were free and had rights like everybody else until they were stripped away from them, which leads us to sympathize with refugees more than with homeless people who probably ended up in such a situation because of drug abuse, disregarding their education and etc;. Also, there are organizations and charities (that includes soup kitchens and shelters) which have been built to help the homeless in Canada, but refugees do not have that opportunity unless the government do something about them and help them start anew…
The book “Inside Out and Back Again” , a book of poetry written by Thanhha Lai, brings light to the struggles and obstacles that refugees face, which some overcome through what they love. A refugee might have a hard time leaving their homes, which might have been all they knew. Even after they have abandoned their heritage for a new hope, they risk everything to arrive in order to arrive at their new home. It seems although the hardships never end for these individuals, some facing discrimination because they are different, and new. Even though their lives may turn inside out, some, perusing what they love, can have comfort. These struggles can be present for people from all over the world,…
Once the children cross international boarders, they become asylum seekers. An asylum seeker is a person who has moved across international borders in search of protection and has filed a claim for asylum with the host country’s government. If the claim is accepted, the person becomes a refugee. “…it takes several weeks or months before they know whether they will be allowed to stay in Germany” [King 3]. An asylum is shelter or protection from danger granted by a country to someone forced to leave his or her home…
Historically the united States has been also the number country around of welcoming immigrants and refugees.In the past, US has accepted many refugees from all around the world not matter where they from or who are they.In 1979 the United states has admitted 111,000 refugees from vietnam after the Vietnam war.And in the 1980s the US had added about 207,000 Vietnamese refugees and at the same time it had took more than 120,000 cuban refugees (Park).The United states had support many countries and people when there were wars and problem in their countries.The US allowed the refugees in because it can provide for them better lives.But recently the president of the United had order a new law about refugees enter US,”Trump's order suspended the…
All lives matter, including refugees. Many are not aware of the extensive hardship a refugee must face before an invitation to the United States is offered. Sometimes it takes upwards of three years to be given the ticket of freedom. Because of the prolonged process it takes to come to America it can be hard to get a refugee to talk about the conditions he or she has had to endure before beginning a new life here in America. For those who are familiar with refugees it is not uncommon to hear survivor and think of a refugee, however, often times survivors are more directly related to those battling cancer. Regardless of the battle either encounters, one has multiple barriers to overcome. When it comes to looking from the refugee perspective, survivor seems to be the most accurate descriptor.…
A topic that played a role in the United States presidential election was the topic of if U.S citizens would have more job opportunities. President Trump during the election promised to bring more jobs back to America. His method of accomplishing this was to deport everyone in the United States who was an illegal immigrant. This method from President Trump received a lot of backlash as he was deemed as having racist intentions to deport everyone of Latin descent as Mexicans have the highest amount of illegal immigration statuses in America. Currently the law for deporting illegal immigrants has not been passed and the issue that has still yet to be resolved is the decline of job opportunities in the United States.…
33. The facts that constitute inadmissibility under sections 34 to 37 include facts arising from omissions and, unless otherwise provided, include facts for which there are reasonable grounds to believe that they have occurred, are occurring or may occur.…
Stereotype: a fixed idea or image of a group of people without actually getting to know them. Innocent refugees are being stereotyped to be terrorists everyday they walk outside, and it needs to stop. Sabha Al-Ali, Motab, and their children are Syrian refugees that arrived in Pittsburgh in 2015. In Syria, they were bombed everyday, and kept in refugee camps. It was an extremely hard journey to get to the United States. They came here to escape the terrorists, not to become them. They have a hard time fitting in, without knowing English. They are afraid that President Trump will send them back to the life that they wanted to leave forever. They long for opportunities to blend in and become part of whole. They said, “If you’re really afraid of…