Acceptance of Middle Eastern Refugees into the United States

UN COUNTERPLANFor this debate I shall be running the counterplan of the United Nations shall organize the assistance and settlement of Middle Eastern Refuggees. Why not US? The purposed plan in this resolution is based around the US accepting in Syrian refuggess, but says nothing about other nations. For one the US has strong opposition to the Syrian Refuggess as there is massive polarization in the US on the topic as the country is split with 51% of Americans opposing such a move [1]. It has been reported in Germany that the Refugees have committed over 200,000 crimes in 2015 [2]. The US does have a good vetting system, but the Americans are currently concerned about these kinds of issues which is why the UN needs to help co-ordinate and lead a world wide effort to solve this issue. To continue with this, with the US being a UN member nation, they will still be able to help the Srian Refugees. To what extent may be up for debate and in question, but under this counterplan the Syrian Refugee crisis can become further closer and closer to being solved. Help more. The current impact of the resolution to this date is that the US has brought in 100,000 Syrian refugees and Obama has announced that these numbers will be increasing. The only issue is that this will not be anywhere close to solving this problem. The UN has announced that there are nearly 4.7 million, and climbing, refugees coming out of the crisis in the Middle East [3]. There are plenty of other nations who have yet to begin to accept refugees that can be able to and this will greatly lower the number of displaced peoples from this conflict. Much of Southeastern Europe are suffering highly under the burdens being placed on them by the migrants and only the UN can effiecently help them as the US cannot help much by taking only a miniscule portion of the refugees. How will this plan be enforced? It is very similiar to the plan that the EU had put for with each nation taking in refugees in purportion to their nation size [4]. The UN would then leavy penalties against nations who refuse to accept these refugees and can reward those who excede their limits. Veil of IgnoranceHere one must look through Rawl's Veil of Ignorance. In order to do that one's creed, race, sex, religion, political views, and generation does not matter. This in in order to eliminate bias from the viewer in order to view his two principles of Difference and Equality. The Equality Principle is that the greatest extent of Liberty for everyone. The other states that it must benefit everyone, including the least advantaged, must be open to everyone, and your enemy chooses your position in that society or scenario [5]. Under this situation we can see that it would be better that the UN directs the plan as it would help aid more people. This would help those at every level in society and with us ignoring all biases we can see that we would want to help the most amount of people here as we could then be potentially helping ourselves here in this area. By doing this we have to perfer the counterplan as it will aid a great number more than the Affirmation's side in this debate. Sources1. (. http://www.cbsnews.com...) 2. (. http://www.express.co.uk...) 3. (. http://data.unhcr.org...)4. (. http://www.bbc.com...) 5. (. http://plato.stanford.edu...)