The Global Refugee Crisis

This chapter seeks to end the global refugee crisis in a human way that rewards all involved parties and punishes no one. The parties that are being asked to get involved in ending this crisis are the United States and the European Community members. The tool created to deal with this human tragedy is the envisioned MoRa Plan that asks the America and European states to finance a program to economically develop the Latin American, the Middle Eastern, and the African countries over a period of 20 years. Today, poor immigrants arriving from Latin America at the borders of the United States daily and waves of desperate refugees arriving at the shores of Europe on ships that caused the drowning of thousands of refugees since 2011, have created a backlash in Europe and America. Resistance to accommodating disparate refugees fleeing war, poverty, and violence has caused tolerance, compassion, and empathy in Europe and America to decline, and caused racism, discrimination, and hate to rise and undermine the democratic system in both continents. Though there is no doubt that widespread political and economic corruption, high unemployment rates, and lack of freedom in most Latin American, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian countries are major causes of this human tragedy, there is also no doubt that the colonialist policies and the imperialistic ambitions of America and other European states were major forces that caused this tragic situation in the first place.