Personally, I find it funny that the only time this is brought up is when people are trying to rationalize not taking in refugees. I have never heard Republicans be in favor of giving handouts to the homeless and impoverished people in order to help their situation...? So you've got the government, the rebels, ISIS, the Kurds, the US, and Russia tearing Syria apart, my question is, where are the civilians supposed to go? Don't we have a responsibility to get them to safety seeing as we started dropping thousands of bombs in their country? Why are they "refugee scum" necessarily? When you say non intelligent things like that it just makes it seem you dislike them simply for being foreign and not any logical reason.