Should America Accept
the Refugees in Europe?

The United States is the most generous nation in the world, and we've taken millions of refugees from foreign countries. The rich European countries did not offer to take any of the refugees from Central America who poured into our country last year, so we can brush off the politicians who want us to take in Africans and Middle Easterners who are now trying to get into Euro­pean countries. Tell the Europeans, it's your turn to be generous.

Those people clamor­ing at the gates of Eu­rope are not all refugees. Real refugees usually come as families, but there are few women and children among the hoards of people trying to get into Europe; they are mostly unattached young Muslim men who ought to stay home and fight for freedom in their own country.

Many are likely to be migrants looking for a better life in a rich country with a cradle-to-grave welfare system.

Welcoming so many strangers into our country would be a terrible blow to our own economic system. More than 90% of recent refugees from the Middle East are now on U.S. welfare, according to statistics published by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. Our welfare system is already overloaded by last year's invasion of Central American migrants who entered our country illegally and never went back home.

It's against U.S. law to admit foreigners who go right on our welfare system. Immigrants to the U.S. are supposed to prove that they have a means of support in order to be admitted, but that's another law the Obama Adminis­tration pays no attention to. The Boston bombers' parents were falsely admitted as refugees, which they were not, and then were given $100,000 worth of welfare benefits.

The best voice of sanity about immigration is always that of Sena­tor Jeff Sessions (R-AL) whose clear thinking is demonstrated in his Handbook on Immigration, which ought to be on the desk of every Member of Congress. Here is his most recent advice: "The U.S. has already taken in four times more immigrants than any other nation on Earth. . . . Ninety percent of recent refugees from the Middle East living in our country are re­ceiving food stamps and 70 percent are receiving free health care plus cash welfare. All the nearly 200,000 refugees whom Obama is planning to bring in during the next two years would be entitled to these same benefits the moment they arrive....We have no capacity to screen for extremist ideology, as we have seen with the surge of ISIS recruitment in Minnesota's Somali refugee community."

Middle Eastern nations must take the lead in resettling their region's refugees. The goal of a re­sponsible refugee resettlement pro­cess should be to relocate displaced persons as close to their homes as possible. It's not sound policy to encourage millions to abandon their homeland and then demand richer countries to accept them.