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lordmandeep said:
Why cant progressives simply understand to take a smaller number of refugees, that can actually be helped.

If you invite to many, they all cannot be helped and you make the local populace angry and hostile.

Of course for progressives, such simple logic is beyond them.

It's a new situation, some countries are learning on the fly. 

In general though it's important to realize these are human beings and if we are to project ourselves as a modern society, then we need to treat people in a humane and decent way. 

Yes sure, more restrictions may be neccessary to better screen people, and beyond that to better integrate them when they do arrive. 

But becoming a cold group "angry and hostile" xenophobic assholes isn't the answer either. The fact is the overwhelming majority of people immigrating are decent people.