As a US combat veteran, I remind those governors and talking heads, today in favor of turning away refugees, of what we believe in, and fight for, as a free nation:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
from the poem by Emma Lazarus, Statue of Liberty
The current bluster about closing mosques, and sending people back where they came from is disappointing to me, and I think to many others. My German- speaking US family had nine male relatives in Germany drafted into the Nazi Army. By the warped thinking of some today, we in America should have been fenced in, and our farm taken. Probably we weren't (unlike Japanese-Americans) because we “looked American”, even if we didn't sound like it. There were many thousands like us. Likely, your ancestors were from somewhere else, once. And yet, the country grew stronger because of them.
Take a deep breath, you politicians and pontificators: You are embarrassing my country.