Concerned by fear of refugees

I find the anti-immigration legislation soon to be proposed in Congress mean-spirited as well as poor strategy. This is simply fear-mongering by the new House Speaker. There is no need for a “pause” in the immigration program. No one who has passed Homeland Security’s scrutiny in the past decade has proven to be a terrorist. The alleged “Syrian passport” found in Paris was shown to be fake, and was probably ISIS’ ploy to generate just the kind of knee-jerk backlash we see occurring.

Nothing could be more detrimental to our reputation in the Middle East than this denial of the refugees’ plight.

This story was originally published November 25, 2015 at 2:07 PM with the headline "Concerned by fear of refugees."