I'm not afraid of terrorism, are you?

[The Grand Nudger]

I think "Give us your tired, your poor, your hungry" is outdated like most of the things from horsey riding days.  The US has all the tired, poor, and hungry it needs.  Back when we were filling up the country, and building the infrastructure, and getting the industrial revolution going.  Sure.  Send us a bunch of people, we'll hook them up with crazy difficult/dangerous jobs building a railroad 14 hours a day or working in a mine, and in exchange, they can start a little life here.  

I think this is probably an intractable difference of opinion between us.  Were it not for immigrants our population would be in decline, our productivity would be in decline, and we'd stagnate culturally.  

Those days are gone, and then some. 

Then so is any america worth defending with -my- life, or anyone's life I'd set orders to, from terrorists or anyone else.  Again..probably an intractable difference of opinion.  

As for foreign terrorists fears.  It's not fears, it's practicality.  Germany just had a refugee go bonkers 1 day ago.  Why take the risk?  It's like picking up hitchhikers.  And of course, keep an eye on anti-government loons.  I assume/hope they are being watched.  And it'll be easier to do, when the govt doesn't have to split up resources keep an eye on a bunch of refugees as well.  Alas, those crazy right-wing folks are our loons, and I don't think other countries will let us deport them to their land.

It can't be practicality, in the US context.  Practicality would see us leveraging our fears and efforts towards the threat that's twice as great...rather than ignoring it and losing our shit over refugees, who aren't even terrorists to begin with.