It seems like Americans are more comfortable talking about our nations’ ideals rather than living up to them. The inscription on the Statue of Liberty says:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
I can understand the need for carefully screening refugees from Syria and the Middle East, but to date we’ve welcomed approximately 1,500 refugees; a pitiful few considering we are a nation of immigrants some 300 million strong. The terrors taking place in Syria have resulted in more than 250,000 civilians killed and more than 22 million forced to flee their homes (that includes children). I can’t think of another nation more in need of the United States, but it seems like our country’s “Christian ideals” have been forgotten or are simply lip service.
Explain to me how having 22 million displaced Syrians living in poverty in the Middle East (because nobody will take them) won’t result in providing ISIS and others with a new generation ripe for recruiting.
NYT: G.O.P. governors vow to close doors to Syrian refugees
CNN: More than half of the nation’s governors say Syrian refugees not welcome
FOX News: Where are the Syrian refugees now?
NBC: House Speaker Ryan: “Pause” needed in resettling Syrian refugees
BosGuy 
This doesn’t surprise me. We couldn’t even treat our own Katrina evacuees with dignity.
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I think Cuomo said it best – if you are going to turn these people away, you might as well give the Statue of Liberty back to France
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It’s a tough dilemma. It seems like Germany, Canada, France and the UK are proving super nations in their own right. The US is not leading by example and the pitiful few they have taken in is not even a drop in the bucket.
On one hand I think you have pandoras box whereby opening up borders to refugees sets the pace for more to flee and only increases the economic and social issues to be faced within countries opening up their borders including the threat of terrorism. On the other, there’s the self described role of the super nations doing what is right and humane.
Half of the problems in the middle east was caused by the west, within the initial partitioning of the modern middle east by the UK and France. The other half by the the US led invasion on the search for the ghost of WMD in Iraq which has lead to many of the issues happening in Iraq and the growth of ISIS…
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