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In a country with 323.1 million people, approximately 1 million of those people are immigrants that come to the U.S each year. if we narrow it down that is about 328 immigrants for each 100,000 people living in America according to telegraph.co (Scott)
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An Asylum-Seeker is a "person who, from fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, social group, or political opinion, has crossed an international frontier into a country in which he or she hopes to be granted refugee status" (Dictionary.com)

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As an Asylum-Seeker you don't get a choice. The choice is made by someone else (usually the government)  who does not know your story. The someone else gets to determine whether your past is good enough for you to live in the United States. In the book The Radius of Us, Phoenix is a asylum seeker and is faced with challenges  that involve him either staying or being deported

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Phoenix an eighteen year old, flees his country (El Salvador) with his younger brother too seek for protection. When they enter the U.S him and his brother get separated, Phoenix living in Atlanta with a couple who decides to help him out and his younger brother in Texas in a child care facility. Phoenix has a tough past and has a tough time trying not to bring it up, especially when they ask about his background and the reasoning of why he left his home country.  "here's the thing: I came to Georgia on a plane packed full of guys just like me-- two hundred of us, caught at the border, running away from the hell that's breaking loose in El Salvador. I am the only one of those two hundred guys who walked out" (Marquardt 11) This quote tells us that he was fortunate but it's only the beginning.

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When it comes to living in a country that you are new to, its important for we as citizens that live here, that we treat others with respect and welcome them in. In a article by The Sentinel, it talks about how refugees and immigrants struggle when coming into the U.S. David Lubell a founder and executive director of Welcoming America, and according to him "the world is currently experiencing its biggest refugee crisis since World War II, and right now only one in eight americans live in a welcoming city. (Mcever)

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Many Asylum-Seekers have already a tough time fitting in and finding help when entering the U.S , but if they find a way to manage living in the U.S, there still is one thing in the way, the application. According to an article by Independent "Home Office immigration statistics released today alongside the ONS figures show that grants of asylum to main applicants and dependants have fallen by 9 per cent in the year to september 2017, while the number of people granted permission to stay permanently was down 5 per cent. " (Mary Bulman) this article shows how the acceptance rate is actually doing down, it may not be a drastic percent but that percent does matter.

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Marie Marquardt the author, tells about her inspiration of why asylum-seekers and immigrants are an important in the article USA Today . As she says "they're incredible, resilient and brave. I think their stories are so important. Not many people know what's happening to make these young people seek protection in the U.S, or what life is like for them when they arrive." (Lamb).

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