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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Why don't you think safety and economic impact when it comes to refugees and illegal immigrants are people's [b]real[/b] concerns?  There is a mechanism for legal immigration, there is a mechanism for refugees.  I support both legal immigration and a refugee program--but I think both safety and economic impact ON AMERICANS should be thoroughly examined and mitigated when possible with both of these, and given what has happened in Europe people are asking valid questions about refugees from strife zones. We do not have an obligation to globalization over our own people's needs first--safety, college funding, jobs etc.  I am not a Trump supporter, but it does resonate when his camp says Democrats put the needs of everyone else before American citizens.[/quote]

I believe that if you studied the refugee program you would see that both economic impact and safety are top considerations. There are hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Obama wants to accept 10,000. If security and economic impact were not concerns, he could open the doors to a lot more than that. Again, there are risks and costs to not accepting refugees. If Jordan collapses under the weight of refugees the cost to the US will be astronomical. I don't want to put the needs of everyone else before American citizens, but I recognize that serving the American interest often requires assisting others. The US commitment to refugees is as best symbolic, but it is an important symbol. Closing the doors would also send a signal, one that would quite likely have very negative consequences. 
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