Title: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants: Three Reasons People Flee Home - Preemptive Love
Headings: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants: Three Reasons People Flee Home
Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants: Three Reasons People Flee Home
Preserving Safety
Preserving Family
Preserving Normalcy

Content: While Central America is not engulfed in full-scale war, families still face a dire economic situation, with desperate poverty. If there’s no food to buy, you cannot stay. If there’s no work, no way to earn money to support your family, you cannot stay. If there are no public services, if you cannot get clean water, if no schools are open anymore, you cannot stay. This is the situation in some places in Central America, where people are expected to somehow live on as little as $5 a day. They might be labeled “migrants” because they are looking for new opportunity, but make no mistake: they are just as desperate for safety and a new beginning as refugees fleeing war. And it’s not just people in other countries who are forced to flee. After the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in 2017, many Americans were displaced by flooding. The government offered vouchers allowing some families to stay in hotels for up to two weeks, with a possibility for extension depending on circumstances.