Efforts to restrict access to the U.S. by people fleeing war-torn parts of the world would be misguided and inhumane. Such efforts to restrict access to the U.S. by people fleeing war-torn parts of the world would be misguided and inhumane. The Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, reported in 2015 that in the 14 years after the 9/11 terror attacks, 784,000 refugees resettled in the U.S. Yet during that time only three resettled refugees were convicted on terror-related charges — two of them for plotting against an overseas target and the third for hatching “plans that were barely credible,” according to the report. Trump’s actions are not only inhumane, they are a betrayal of what the United States stands for.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 27, 2017 11:02 UTC