O’Malley wants US to take in 65,000 Syrian refugees

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It's obvious he's trying to score points with voters, but this could never work out in the real world. What we need to do is help Syria in their civil war. If not, expect a lot more chaos, death, and refugees escaping the war torn country.

Why wouldn't it work.  In mostly the late 1970s and early 1980s the United States accepted 823,000 boat people. That averages to over 100,000 a year.

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This is essentially the same argument made by Bjorn Lomborg on Global Warming: "there are already more important environmental problems to deal" with and it fails for the same reason: there is no reason to believe that the money spent on taking in refuges would go to assisting those Americans already having difficulties.

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Eric Olso, please don't act like America hasn't taken in tens of millions of people from all over the world. Scandinavian is a Johnny come lately to the subject.

In regards to refugees, Scandinavia has set the standard since at least before World War II.