Thinking About the Syrian Refugee Nonsense

There are so many levels of nonsense tied to the current hysteria about accepting some ten thousand Syrian refugees into the United States. But here's one. And it's a big one. If you want to be scared and xenophobic, at least apply some level of logic. To hear the current debate, you'd think the United States is a hermetically sealed immigration Ziploc bag. And now we're letting in 10,000 refugees from a war zone crawling with violent jihadists. Let's set aside the reality of that claim for the moment. Are these really the only flows of immigration to the United States? I just the Visa office's record of non-immigrant visas issued last year by the United States.
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