We recently told you about Mark Krikorian’s new book entitled: “The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal.” In an interview on national security Krikorian questioned the wisdom of our policy of taking Muslim refugees. He asks the same question a Congressman asked me once: Why aren’t the rich Saudis taking in Muslim refugees?
Krikorian believes the U.S. should insist that other countries take on some of the burden for refugee resettlement. “We should not be taking anybody who can find somewhere else to go. And…if there are Islamic refugees…it seems to me [we] have every right to tell, say, Saudi Arabia – which is empty and rich – that they need to take some of these people and twist their arms a little bit. And we don’t do that,” he laments.
It makes sense to me.