After the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, there was a groundswell of support for a pause to admitting people claiming to be "refugees" from the Syrian civil war to the USA. President Obama and the Obamacrats told the nation of the wonderful vetting process used to keep terrorists from entering the country as refugees, but the reality that there is no way to vet these people became clear very quickly. Then we learned that the woman terrorist in San Bernardino had been "vetted" by the feds and given admission even though (1) she lied on her application in ways easy to verify (but which were missed) and (2) she had clear connections to jihadi groups (which the vetting also missed.) As usual, the facts did not change the view of Obama and the Obamacrats. They still want to admit tens or hundreds of thousands of refugees without regard to the safety of American citizens.
Now we are watching events unfold in Germany which ought to be unsettling to those who still advocate for unlimited admission for these refugees. In more than one city during the New Year's holiday, gangs of refugee men carried out sexual assaults on German women. We still do not know all the facts about these attacks, but there is no doubt that something terrible happened and that the perpetrators were groups of Moslem immigrants to Germany who were either exclusively or mostly "refugees" included among the hundreds of thousands that Germany has accepted.
It's too soon to determine what effect all this will have on German policy regarding refugees. We may see anything from no change to the closing of German borders to these people.
No matter what the Germans do, it is unlikely that the USA will change course. Obama is never bothered by new facts when he can be guided by old ideology. Nevertheless, we are on a dangerous trajectory. Since World War II, America has always been compassionate when it comes to helping refugees who are fleeing tyranny and oppression. Slamming the door on refugees from Syria who have no place else to go is unthinkable, but admitting terrorists with the refugees is likewise unthinkable. So do the refugees have anywhere else to go? The answer is yes. There are refugee centers in Jordan and elsewhere in the Middle East that could take many more people were there to be more international support for the effort. Rather than risk admitting terrorists to the USA we could help locate the refugees to safety at these centers. If that won't work, then we can go to an alternate plan. America could accept literally hundreds of thousands of refugees who could be housed temporarily at Guantanamo in Cuba. That base is enormous (nearly half the size of Rhode Island.) Admitting people for safety on that base would still keep terrorists out of the USA while helping the refugees.
Now we are watching events unfold in Germany which ought to be unsettling to those who still advocate for unlimited admission for these refugees. In more than one city during the New Year's holiday, gangs of refugee men carried out sexual assaults on German women. We still do not know all the facts about these attacks, but there is no doubt that something terrible happened and that the perpetrators were groups of Moslem immigrants to Germany who were either exclusively or mostly "refugees" included among the hundreds of thousands that Germany has accepted.
It's too soon to determine what effect all this will have on German policy regarding refugees. We may see anything from no change to the closing of German borders to these people.
No matter what the Germans do, it is unlikely that the USA will change course. Obama is never bothered by new facts when he can be guided by old ideology. Nevertheless, we are on a dangerous trajectory. Since World War II, America has always been compassionate when it comes to helping refugees who are fleeing tyranny and oppression. Slamming the door on refugees from Syria who have no place else to go is unthinkable, but admitting terrorists with the refugees is likewise unthinkable. So do the refugees have anywhere else to go? The answer is yes. There are refugee centers in Jordan and elsewhere in the Middle East that could take many more people were there to be more international support for the effort. Rather than risk admitting terrorists to the USA we could help locate the refugees to safety at these centers. If that won't work, then we can go to an alternate plan. America could accept literally hundreds of thousands of refugees who could be housed temporarily at Guantanamo in Cuba. That base is enormous (nearly half the size of Rhode Island.) Admitting people for safety on that base would still keep terrorists out of the USA while helping the refugees.
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