Last week, GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump advocated for registering Muslims in the United States within a database to 'keep track.'
A Virginia mayor initially stated that he was, "Reminded that President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it appears that the threat of harm to America from Isis [sic] now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then," in an official letter.
Never mind that the United States has made an official apology to Japanese citizens and Japan for those internment camps.
This is what ISIS wants, they want to still instill fear and panic.
Over 95% of those targeted by them have been Muslims. ISIS has also stated that they do not look kindly at refugees, to put it mildly.
The civil war that has been raging in Syria since 2011 has forced millions of Syrians to seek refuge and make the long, treacherous journey to safer areas. They are running from Syrian President Bashir al-Assad's regime in extreme military brutality, imprisonments, and killings as well as the takeover of ISIS in the region.
So why did the House of Representatives vote to halt the processes of Syrian refugees in the United States?
There was a passport found at the scene of one of the attacks that appeared to be a Syrian passport. It was completely intact, despite supposedly being in close proximity to a suicide bomb. It was eventually found to be fake. Those being trained and recruited by ISIS are being trained in Syria and Iraq, but those abroad that the countries such as the United State should be worried about are not those fighters. ISIS has largely changed its strategy to encouraging sympathizers to stay in their countries and carry out attacks without traveling to Syria or Iraq.
Yet, millions of people agree with Congress that we should not be accepting Syrian refugees.
Echoing New York Governor Cuomo's sentiments, "If the day comes when America says 'close the gates, build the wall,' then I say take down the Statue of Liberty, because we’ve gone to a different place. The poem on the Statue of Liberty reads, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,' On the day this is no longer true, we will have lost sight of who we are."
I wholeheartedly agree, Governor Cuomo.
