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Trump Is Trying to Kill the Program That Saved My Life

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/trump-refugee-program.html The origin of this source is an article from the New York Times by Marius Kothor, who is a Yale graduate student currently working on his Ph.D in History. The purpose of this article is to give information about his experience as a refugee, and how the Refugee Resettlement Program helped him to obtain the life that he has, and how it would change other lives too. He also express how upset he is about the Program being reducing the number of people who could apply for a refugee resettlement.   Kothor outline the article by explaining what the Refugee Resettlement Program is, and how it allows people who are escaping from war, persecution and famine to legally move to the United States. He also explains how the program reduced the number of refugees to 18,000 for the following 12 months for security reasons. He also states that coming to the United States as a refugee is the most difficult way, because the...

‘’Is Beto O'Rourke single-handedly dooming a gun control bill?’’

  Chris Cillizza on his article ‘’ Is Beto O'Rourke single-handedly dooming a gun control bill?’’ published on   Friday, September 20, 2019, in CNN talks about how Beto’s proposal about a new gun control bill as an answer to the recent mass shootings, and how it is being criticized by both parties. The idea of the gun control bill is to expand background checks and gun control measurements. The article emphasizes the republican point of view which is that the democratic party will always try to take away their freedom from acquiring guns, but also explain how controversial it is for Americans lose the right of carrying a gun. Chris also mentions that although it is a controversial issue and has a lot of criticism from the Republican party, there are even hopes that the issue of the sea taken to Congress.  this article is relevant to read as it contains information on one of the proposals that the democratic party is considering in making, which can help influence t...

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Hi, my name is Estefani and I’m from Venezuela  I moved to the United States three years ago and I lived in Denton TX until the past 2 weeks. As everyone, I fell in love with the city of Austin around a year ago, so I decided to make my college life(and probably my whole life) here in the weirdest and coolest city of Texas. My plan is to get as many credits as I can at ACC to then transfer to my dream college: UT Austin.