Jordan has been taking a lot of the heat from Syrian Refugees. Jordan is the third to the top in the amount of refugees it has taken in. The number of “registered” refugees is at a high number of 633,466, but their is an even higher number of an estimated 1,400,000 unregistered Syrians in Jordan that had to flee their homes. I have friends that have family in Jordan and go to visit them every other summer, and they told me two summers ago that the country was filled with refugees. They said that in the suburbs of major cities, their were families literally living in the streets.
When you here a story of families with children that choose to flee their homes and go to a foreign land and live in the streets, you had better think that their has to be something wrong with their home country. No person in their right minds would flee their homes and go live somewhere completely unknown to them. Then you have these people saying that they are fleeing just because they want to go to some European country and have an awesome life their. I beg to differ with the millions of the refugees for one reason, if it’s not broke why fix it? If the people fleeing were rich doctors living in luxury, then they left for a reason not to take a chance on trying to succeed in some foreign European country.
If you look at the whole situations of refugees in depth, you realize that the pressure that Europe feels now has been put on Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan for the past many years. Turkey has taken in an estimated 2,200,000-2,500,000 refugees as of October of 2015 and Lebanon an estimated 1,196,560 as of April 2015. Now I don’t want to take all of the lives of these many people and just call them/ put them as numbers, it doesn’t seem fair. People are using numbers to get an idea of how many lives Bashar Al Assad and his oppressive Syrian Regime have hurt and basically destroyed. Then you look at the lives taken by his regime and it is extremely heart breaking.
“King Abdullah said he hoped that the threat posed by IS to the world would convince Syrian government and opposition representatives attending talks in Geneva, as well as their backers in Moscow and Washington, of the urgent need for a political solution to the conflict in Syria.” BBC
I agree with King Abdullah on this point and hope that the stress Europe feels from the refugees will push them to act upon it and take action in Syria. If the rest of the world realizes what Assad has been doing and steps in no matter what the political cost is, it will not only help all of the Syrian refugees but it will most likely destroy Daesh in the process.
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