Dear Editor,
Migration has become one of the greatest challenges for people in search of a better life. It is a serious issue confronting governments and people around the world today. The complexity of illegal migration and the displacement of people have led to human catastrophe and controversy. The plight of refugees fleeing conflict zones ravaged by wars, political injustice, religious beliefs, and natural disasters is the worst humanitarian crisis not seen since the Second World War in 1945.
Hundreds of migrants have died fleeing conflict areas for a better life for themselves and families. Many died at sea trying to reach Europe from Africa. It’s a heartbreaking situation for people wanting to enjoy a better life. Their children are dying from starvation, malnutrition, and diseases. Millions of refugees in Yemen, Syria, and Bangladesh are suffering from hunger and starvation, and desperately in need of help, but no one to the rescue. Many don’t have food to eat, clean water to drink, and money to spend.
World Government has no immediate solution to end the migrant crisis. Many countries are closing their doors to asylum seekers. African migrants are sent back home from some European countries. Migrants are not treated fairly in most countries. Most of the times, they’re look upon as terrorists or runaway slaves. The majority of people from Latin America and the Caribbean are suffering from low wages, slow improvement in the economy, and the national debts of their countries are quite high.
Hundreds of prisoners are deported from the United States resulting in gang violence back home. People are dying as brutal gangs carry out kidnapping and murders. In Honduras 17,000 people decided to walk to the Mexican border trying to reach America, the land of opportunity, a desperate struggle for a better life or death in search of work. Refugees in Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, and Indonesia are homeless, lack of food and money is a global problem facing migrants and refugees today.
The political and economic situation in Venezuela is causing people to flee to Colombia and other Caribbean countries to find employment. The world economy is shrinking, and governments are struggling to help out financially. In order to curb the plight of illegal migration in the region, authorities must try to control free movement of migrants seeking asylum, introduce new legislations to protect their citizens in the job market, grant refugee status to migrants with special education and skills, and give status to those fleeing religious persecution.
Refugees are no longer welcome in some European countries, and must be aware of those establishing laws in parliament to send migrants to criminal islands to be treated like slaves. Migrants fleeing countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are sometimes victims of wars, unfair prosecution, political injustice, terrorism, and natural disasters, hoping to find work, and enjoy a better life. Some of these countries are in ruins, causing people to flee to other countries, creating illegal immigration and constitutional crisis in many countries.
Their children are starving, some suffering from malnutrition, and many children and adults drown at sea. The majority of countries in Latin America have a 25 per cent illiteracy rate, a huge debt ceiling, and high rate of unemployment causing their citizens to migrate elsewhere to find work. While world governments look for solutions! Hope and dreams are high among many in search of a better life, but dreams don’t always come through.
For now, exploitation, deportation, and unfair prosecution are the result in their struggle for a better life.
Joseph Harvey
