Question

Whitch sentence best supports that the author's purpose is to persuade the United States should change its refugee policy?

Answer 1

D. “The United States should also increase to pre-9/11 levels the number of refugees we accept to 90,000 from the current 70,000 per year and, unlike in recent years, actually admit that many.”

Answer 2

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“If a house is burning, people will jump out the window.”

“I last went to Nueva Suyapa in 2003, to write about another boy, Luis Enrique Motino Pineda, who had grown up there and left to find his mother in the United States.”

“The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recently interviewed 404 children who had arrived in the United States from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. . . .”

“The United States should also increase to pre-9/11 levels the number of refugees we accept to 90,000 from the current 70,000 per year and, unlike in recent years, actually admit that many.”

Answer:

“The United States should also increase to pre-9/11 levels the number of refugees we accept to 90,000 from the current 70,000 per year and, unlike in recent years, actually admit that many.”

Explanation:

The author reinforces the number of refugees that must be accepted in the country to persuade the reader the cause of the refugees and to show how powerful countries and economic potentials should help these refugees, who are many and need to be sheltered in places that can promote better quality of life and especially security for them.