In just three days, the rhetoric over the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States has devolved from caution to calls for internment camps in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. “Why do you want Tennesseans to die? The blood of innocent people is on their head.” Over the past 72 hours, we’ve watched the rhetoric surrounding the resettling of Syrian refugees in the United States go from cautious calls for stricter screening to suggestions that state troops round up and remove asylum seekers. After ISIS claimed responsibility for Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, some American lawmakers began requesting stricter screening of the roughly...
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