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Washington Post: Halting refugees from Muslim countries 'triggers fears across the globe'

By Dan Calabrese ——--January 26, 2017

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Oh for crying out loud. Trump is doing exactly what he said all along that he would do. It's not about "banning a religion" or "hating Muslims." It's about recognizing that the perpetrators of just about every major terrorist act in recent years have come from within a certain subset of the global population, and that we're doing almost nothing as it stands right now to vet these people before we let them into the country.
Putting a halt to it until we come up with a more effective vetting method should be a basic fundamental from Governing 101. And if the Washington Post doesn't think there's any threat from refugees, maybe it could consult, oh, I don't know . . . the Washington Post to find out about that. But there's only one priority for the Post these days, and that's the War Against Donald Trump, so instead of a clear-eyed look at this issue, we get hysterics like this:
President Trump’s executive order to tighten the vetting of potential immigrants and visitors to the United States, as well as to ban some refugees seeking to resettle in the country, will shatter countless dreams and divide families, would-be immigrants and human rights activists warned. The draft order, expected to be signed as early as Thursday, calls for the immediate cessation of ongoing resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, rejecting visas for visitors and immigrant hopefuls based partly on their ideology and opinions. A copy of the draft orders was leaked Wednesday to civil rights groups and obtained by The Washington Post.
“I feel devastated,” said Ibrahim Abu Ghanem, 37, a father of three in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, whose father and two brothers live in the United States. “This means all my plans are going to go down the drain. “It’s going to be devastating,” said Denise Bell, senior campaigner for refugee and migrant rights for the watchdog group Amnesty International. “Refugees are not a threat. They are the ones fleeing horrific violence. They are trying to rebuild their lives. They want the same safety and opportunities that any of us would want.” “And so we are scapegoating them in the guise of national security. Instead, we are betraying our own values. We are violating international law,” she said.
That last part is especially ridiculous. The Germans can tell you all about the threat from refugees, and it's only common sense to recognize that terrorist groups looking to infiltrate the United States would consider embedding operatives among groups of refugees in order to gain easy entrance. As for Ms. Bell's claim that Trump is "violating international law," where to start? No nation is required by "international law" to accept all comers without restrictions. And even if people have visas, that doesn't mean the receiving country can't impose restrictions out of concern for national security. Many forget that Jimmy Carter imposed a similar restriction on immigration from Iran during the hostage crisis, and virtually no one in the U.S. objected because it was a perfectly reasonable thing to do given the situation at the time.

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The difference today is that the American left is determined, and has been since shortly after 9/11, to pretend radical Islam is not the primary source of the terrorist threat facing the nation. For the past eight years they had a president who refused to acknowledge said threat, so their only complaints were aimed at conservatives who kept bringing it up. Now that we have a president willing to name the enemy and take action against it, we get hysterical nonsense like this from the official mouthpieces of the political class. If refugees were hoping to enter the United States, they'll either have to wait or go somewhere else. There's no doubt that many of them are genuine victims of the conflict in Syria and intend us no harm - and that's a shame - but their complaint should be with the terrorists who keep perpetrating these attacks and make such caution necessary, not with the U.S. government whose first responsibility has to be the safety and security of its own people.
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