And, while security concerns certainly are legitimate, there’s no actual reason to be afraid of refugees.

We already know that accepting refugees from Afghanistan is safe and that the U.S.’s extensive vetting process works — because we’ve done it. We’ve accepted tens of thousands of Afghan refugees and tens of thousands more immigrants through other visa programs. Yet there have been zero deaths in terror attacks from these immigrants. According to the Cato Institute , “[F]rom 1975–2017, the annual chance of being murdered by an Afghan terrorist in an attack on U.S. soil was zero and the chance of being injured was about one in 398,828,510 per year.”

As for the supposed waves of crime that some predict would accompany Afghan refugee resettlement, recent history suggests the opposite. The same Cato research notes that native-born U.S. citizens are 11.6 times more likely to be imprisoned than Afghan-born immigrants! Refugees simply aren’t dangerous criminals, despite what alarmist rhetoric would have you believe.