As the refugee crisis has grown to historic and epidemic proportions, many nations of the world are finding that they can no longer take them in.
It has become the greatest mass movement of human beings since the end of the Second World War. People from all over Earth are fleeing their homelands to escape the constant and unending grinding poverty and unrelenting violence that grips most of the world.
Millions have already escaped the violence and the corruption and the poverty, reports USA Today. Over 55 million escaped in 2014 and this year looks to dwarf those numbers. Many of the millions who are coming to Europe and Scandinavia are fleeing the rages of the civil war in Syria. But many more millions are poring out from the Middle East and from Africa with the hope and the dream of finding a better life elsewhere.
Much of the planet remains embroiled in brutal poverty and never ending violence of one sort or another. There are fewer and fewer places on Earth that are no longer touched by it. Familiar borders and loyalty to a particular country has vanished. People are leaving and doing it for themselves and their families.
Many nations of the world, especially in Europe, have begun closing their borders because they simply can’t take any more of them in. The flood has become too overwhelming. Aside from corruption, violence and war, and poverty, many have fled because of religious persecution. Technology, especially cell phones and social media, are heavily used by the refugees to stay in touch with friends and family as well as to try and assess their positions as they travel.
Over 4 million Syrians have left for Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon in the last four years. The top three countries for the number of refugees flooding the world are Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia. The rest of the countries of the world are desperately trying to get a handle on the situation before it gets anymore out of control.
France and England aren’t taking any refugees in because they feel the problem must be fought at the source in Syria. Germany is expected to settle over 800,000 incoming refugees this year. The United States of America will take in 80,000 migrants beginning in January and will expand it to 100,000 in 2017.
