More than about 120 people were killed in Paris, France on the day of Friday the 13th of 2015. The many deaths were caused by a suicide bombers and shooters by the terrorist group from Syria, known as ISIS. Due to this incident, France and many other countries want toclose their borders to immigrants. A lot of the the immigrants before this incident were coming from Syria because they want to escape harsh life due to the war going on in their country. Closing the borders preventing immigrants from entering other countries is not the right action.

An article on BBC.com in October gave some faces about the situation in Syria.

“More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war. More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other – as well as jihadist militants from Islamic State”

It isn’t fair to not let in any immigrants trying to escape the horrible life of constant conflict and death around them. There are children that get killed with everyone else, regardless if they were  harmless civilians or having part in the war.

“We’re just living on the edge of life. We’re always nervous, we’re always afraid,” a mother-of-nine, Mariam Akash, whose husband was killed by a sniper, told BBC.com.

Syrians don’t deserve to live like this. The world should turn a blind eye on the attack and let the immigrants come in.

Although others might say that keeping immigrants out  is the right choice to keep peace in their country and prevent any more terrorist attacks. It is still not the right thing to do to the immigrants from Syria.

Is 129 deaths in Paris, worth over 250,000 deaths in Syria?

What about the other people in Syria?

How are they going to be safe?

How can they live knowing they might die any day?

We must agree with righteousness. We must agree that countries of the world should not block off any immigrants from coming in.

Student Poll – Should borders be closed to Syrian refugees in answer to the attacks in Paris?

This article was originally published on Nov. 24, 2015. Changes in structure and information were made on Nov. 25, 2015. “Europe” was replaced with “the world.”