Dania Amroosh is a 7-year-old Syrian girl, with unruly long pigtails and large brown eyes. A jagged purple scar across the bridge of her nose is just a papercut in comparison to the eight inch bleeding gash that runs down her stomach. Her red Hello Kitty shirt covers the scars she obtained when a bomb was dropped on her home.

Amroosh is one in over four million trying to escape Syria. Five of her family members were killed by the bomb and added to the current 250,000 death count of people who have been killed in the Civil War taking place in Syria. The staggering 250,000 death toll began in March of 2011, when teens began protesting their current government in pursuit of Democracy.

Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad has ruled Syria for 15 years, taking the place of his father who had ruled for 30 years before him. Assad has “won” the presidential election twice in 2000 and 2007: in both circumstances he had no opposing candidate.

Since then, he has dealt with protests with extreme violence and without concern for the people he was killing. If they opposed him, that was reason enough in his mind for them to be murdered. He has faced harsh criticism not only for the manner in which he dictates his people, but the actions he takes to ensure that his rule continues. In August of 2013, he allegedly sent rockets filled with the powerful chemical weapon Sarin to neighborhoods filled with innocent citizens, killing hundreds. Since then, he has denied his involvement, and the United Nations (UN) stripped him of his chemical weapons.

Due to the dangers the citizens of Syria face as the government and rebel groups, one of which includes the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS. ISIS has been to blame for several terrorist attacks, and they have displayed brutal violence against non-Muslims and Westerners in general.

Obama announced on Sept. 10 that the US would be allowing 10,000 refugees into the country causing great criticism. Over-exaggerated and inaccurate coverage of the situation spread nationally, causing many people to fear that some of the refugees will be loyal to ISIS or another terrorist regime. A common opinion was that it is too easy for someone dangerous to come into our country, and that all Syrians just want to come to America.

America has let in 784,000 refugees since 9/11, about 56,000 a year. Of those 784,000 refugees, three have been arrested for planning an act of terrorism. Since 9/11, there have been 26 deadly terror attacks in America, all of which were committed by American-born terrorists. As for the people who believe that the Syrians all just want to come to America because we are the best country on Earth, they are completely wrong. They don’t want to come to America in particular, they are more focused on escaping their deadly home country. Also, our ally France, who is still recovering from a deadly terrorist attack that took place on Nov. 13, offered to take 30,000 refugees. Here is America, who hasn’t endured a foreign terrorist attack in 14 years, and people are fighting over whether or not we should accept 10,000.