I understand that. Fear is the easiest tool of manipulation, and it's being used here to great effect.
The fact is that our refugee vetting has always been far more extensive than Germany's. Being across the Atlantic, we're harder to travel to than Europe, and we've also been more honest about the opportunities for refugees here. I have a friend who works in Germany's immigration office, and he says it's been a nightmare. Merkel made some broad promises at the start of this crisis which have backfired tremendously. Refugees were fleeing to Germany under the impression that they would be able to find a place to live, a job, a life, but there was simply no infrastructure in place for any of that, and certainly not in the volume needed. Many families used their last resources to escape, only to find that there were no opportunities for them in Germany. Then they're stuck, lacking the resources to take their families anywhere else. They feel a promise was broken that stranded they and their families in a German refugee camp without any more future than they had in Syria. That breeds resentment. And fortunately, that is a mistake we have avoided.