Imagine granting a stranger you have never met permission to live in your house for the rest of their life. You would never agree to do that. There are too many risks and dangers, considering you do not know who this person is, and have no way of finding out. This is how many citizens of the United States feel about allowing the Syrian refugees into their country.

Allowing refugees into the United States is very controversial to the citizens of that country. Many citizens argue that the refugees should be allowed into the United States because their home countries do not provide healthy living conditions. Others argue that refugees should not be allowed into the United States because it is too dangerous for the country, and the possibility that ‘refugees’ could be terrorists or not obedient is extremely high. Refugees should not be allowed into the United States because they may very likely have ulterior motives, which is not worth the risk for the United States since the screening process is not very thorough.

“Refugees are people who have been forced to leave their country because of serious danger.” Claims the Associated Press in the article ‘Being called a refugee could help some Central American kids.’ Most people entering other countries do not actually classify as refugees. They classify themselves as migrants. People claim they are refugees to enter into countries faster than the average migrant would. They tend to claim they live in war torn areas. Their actual home location is completely remote and peaceful although there is a war on the opposite side of their country. Yes, the refugees live in places with extremely limited opportunities, but bringing them into the United States is not helping Syria.

Children are the key to the entire future of humans. Our species would not exist if there were not children to grow into adults. “The scale of the crisis for children is growing all the time, which is why there are now such fears that Syria is losing a whole generation of its youth,” said Peter Salama; the director of the United Nations Children's Fund. Syria is making a mistake by sending all of their children and women into the United States as refugees. They are losing an entire generation, which can lead to the country's downfall. Yes, they do want to keep their children and women safe from war, but they are, in the end, hurting their future as a country. All Syria is doing is giving the United States more opportunities to grow and expand. Adults do not live forever, and Syria needs to recognize that before they completely lose their generation.

Terrorists are a big threat to the United States. Many of the refugees are from Syria, which is highly populated with members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). This raises the chance that those 10,000 ‘refugees’ have around 1 to 5 terrorists in the group. That may not sound like a lot, but a suicide bomber can do tons of damage to our structures and hope. Take the attacks of September eleventh for example, at least four of those men were cleared to get into the country. Yes, our security is better since then, we learned our lesson. Then again, we may not take our security as seriously as we should.

Allowing refugees into the United States is a complicated subject with varying opinions. Some say that refugees are harmless, and all they want is to be safe, however, there are many loopholes for gangs, drug traffickers, and terrorists to get into the country. If this happens the concern is that the crime rate would go up, and the United States tourism rate would most likely go down which is not ideal.  The United States needs to reevaluate how they are allowing foreign people into their country, as it is not worth the risk to let all of these people in of they do not take it as serious as they should.