Outcasts vs Immigrants

Very simply, I did not enjoy the book Outcasts United, I am one of the very few people to have actually read it over the summer. I forced myself through that thing, it was pure torture that lasted me a month and a half, I couldn’t help but put it down. I had to take detailed notes on every single page just so it would hold my interest and I would retain some of the information.

Warren St. John takes the side of the refugees when writing his book, which I can understand, after being with them for so long he has grown into their family and can feel the same pains they feel. Warren seems to support refuges coming to America, yet at the same time, the book suggests that the agencies that bring them here are in way over their heads.

This made me think, it seemed as though he believed we should try harder to accommodate for them and help them. Yet they are arriving here, according to the book, by means of churches trying to help people. I believe that if the agencies cannot support their cause, they should slow it down and maybe find alternate ways to help.

I am one of those people who believe that when you come to this country you need to help yourself just like everyone else did. When our ancestors came here, they didn’t receive help; they had extremely harsh lives and had to make a living and a name for themselves.

Further more, the book doesn’t really suggest any way in which we could help theses refugees until the very end where there is a small sentence telling you how you can help the Fugees, the team. I just think he should have done a better job at entertaining both sides of the argument and mentioning more ways to help his cause.