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"Top 10 Reasons Governors are Wrong to Exclude Syrian Refugees"
By Juan Cole

http://www.juancole.com/2015/11/reasons-governors-refugees.html

Here are three of the reasons he gives:

1. The attackers in Paris were European nationals. The Syrian passport found near one of them was a fake. So are the governors opposed to Belgian immigration into the United States?

2. The attackers were not refugees. They were born in Europe. Refugees are poor and lacking in knowledge or resources about their new environment. The attackers knew exactly where everything was that they wanted to assault and were hooked in with arms smugglers and other hard-to-discover criminal networks.

4.These refugees undergo at least 18 months of background checks, contrary to what Sen. Mario Rubio (whose parents were Cuban immigrants to the US) has alleged.

But the whole article is a worthwhile read. Loaded with facts and common sense from an expert on the Middle East.