So I recently read an article about how the first six immigrants from Iraq and Syria were just denied entry into the US after President Trump’s new suspension on our refugee program. Six people were denied access to their flight from Cairo to NYC, so how do I feel about it?

Well, this one is a complicated subject that has spawned a good deal of debate on both sides as to how we should deal with this massive influx of refugees from countries like Syria and Iraq where ongoing civil war has ravaged both countries. So where do I stand on it? Personally, while I wish that we could let these people come into our country and escape the horrors that have been unleashed in their own country recent history has shown us that simply letting anyone and everyone in invites those that would do us harm. Look at France and Germany which have had several organized attacks along with several mass rape events in Germany by refugees from these states. I’m not saying they’re all bad I’m pretty sure a lot of them are decent human beings that don’t want to live in the actual hell hole their country has become. However, thanks to the actions of certain international terrorist groups that have made claims of desiring to attack other nations by any means necessary we can’t just let them all flood in.

President Trump is first and foremost the leader of the United States (like it or not it’s not going to change soon) so that means his primary duty is to protect the well-being of the American people and every President before has shared that mentality albeit from different angles. Like a lot of other Americans, he’s seen the violence caused by terrorist sneaking into other countries that have opened their doors to them and invite potential violence on ourselves. In any case, Trump believes our vetting system is not stringent enough to deal with this massive influx and still be able to weed out terrorists coming into our land.

So is four months enough time to create a tighter vetting system for refugees? I would like to think so but let’s face it we’re talking about a federal government bloated by bureaucracy so anything can happen really. In any case, I have heard from many on the other side of the fence from where I stand that this is something the US has never done before. Yeah no we’ve done it many times from the Chinese Exclusion act (which at the time was probably more racially driven than anything else) all the way up to Carter’s ban on Iranian immigration shortly after the revolution. Hell, we put both German immigrants and Japanese Americans in internment camps during both World Wars so our immigration and nationalization policy is not the best. In the long run, however, this can be seen as a way to isolate such groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda into a small part of the world where they can be monitored and dealt with. Sounds harsh I know but these are groups that threaten global stability and isolating them is the first step to dealing with them.