Pedro, I don't think people here are actually risk-averse to taking in refugees at all. I think it's just a pretext for not wanting more immigrants who are not white Christians. The same way Trump has his followers believing that most Mexican immigrants are drug lords and rapists, that crowd is ready to believe that refugees fleeing terrorism are themselves terrorists. It doesn't matter that we've had 750K refugees since 9/11 and none of them have turned out to be terrorists. Too many have turned out not to be evangelical Christians.
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