Anyway perhaps you could speak to your senator. EU asked US to accept some refugees. Answer was maybe, but after 4 years of background security checks. Nothing like open-borders we enjoy here (in Greece).
Agitated political discussions always turn into the same thing: ever angrier and more grandiose restatements of pre-existing positions, with no hope of arriving at the truth, and poison for the collegial atmosphere we're trying for here.
Spending 5 minutes in Calais would make it very clear that the problem isn't as tidy and harmless as certain leftist groups would have you believe.
So you're being downvoted because there appears to be a leftist bent among many HN readers and suggesting government complacency when it comes to violence committed by 'protected' groups is punishable by downvote. Sorry, those are the rules. Anything slightly to the right of David Cameron occupies a place of contempt among this audience.