Dear Mr. President, As you can see here this is a picture of a young boy who fled from Tunisia and is leaving a immigration center from an Italian island called Lampedusa. He is angry, afraid and lost. North Africa has already been through many horrible events which have left Tunisia's civilians in a deep hole. They have many many other countries who have been through the same thing and who we have been through the exact same thing and who have been helped by the United States to help the people who are the innocent ones in the battles of war. Like in 1947 the United States helped out Europe $13 billion which helped for over a period of 6 six years. So whats the difference with North Africa? I believe although we are in debt already as it is we have been in debt before and helped our fellow brothers and sisters(other countries) out and have had no big problem with it. Say if we were to send medical aid to North African countries for example Tunisia for now; and we were help the civilians who are suffering and starving from what they are not even apart of.
The United States was willing to offer Europe $20 billion but only if they could come together and agree on a way to split the aid, but they didn't so they were given $16 billion in the end. So why can't we do the same? I feel like America has always been the big brother to other countries when they needed tit most. I feel like we aren't being that big brother now, I would like to know the pros and cons if we provided a Marshall plan with North Africa.
Thank you for your time Mr. President and hopefully we will see you at High Tech High Internationals graduation!
Sincerely, Shyana Brown a student from High Tech High Media Arts
