Syrian children march in the refugee camp in Jordan. The number of children in this camp exceeds 60% of the total number of refugees hence the name “Children’s camp”. Some of them lost their relatives, but others lost their parents.
“So are there any refugees who have become terrorists since finding a home in the U.S.? Yes — three. That’s out of the 784,000 refugees who have been resettled in the U.S. since 9/11. Kathleen Newland, also of the MPI, pointed this out earlier in the fall, adding that it was ‘worth noting two were not planning an attack in the United States and the plans of the third were barely credible.’ History doesn’t seem to bear out that refugees are more likely to be disaffected enough by life in the U.S. to lash out through terrorism.”
Republicans fear jihadists may filter into the U.S. to carry out domestic attacks by blending in with the flood of innocent refugees. That’s their stated rationale for keeping out the innocent refugees (although their real reasons probably are different). Actually, the flow of jihadists is mostly if not entirely in the other direction:
“But it’s undeniable that the number of Westerners attempting to join Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has skyrocketed (there’s no data available on whether any of these were refugees). According to Courtney Schuster, co-author of a New America Foundation report, “ISIS in the West,” 83 Americans from 21 different states have attempted to join the group.” So, in reality, the Syrians ought to be upset with us for exporting our terrorists to their country.
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