Don't we want people who have lived, say, in the Nineveh Plains
region since antiquity to be close to home so that when security
circumstances and economic circumstances settle down, they can come
back to their homes where they have lived since antiquity? Of course we do. We see data from last year that says $64,000 is about the typical
cost of resettling one refugee in the United States; $64,000. But that
same amount of money will take care of a dozen people over in their
neighborhood rather than one person here in America. Why shouldn't we get a 12-to-1 return on the taxpayers' investment
and help people in the region where they live so that they can go back
to their homeland again and grow their families and grow their
population and their industry and re-establish their roots rather than
let ISIS push the Christians out of the Middle East and push the
versions of Islam out that they hate the most?