In a clear break with her own political party, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came out against the anti-refugee stance of Republicans last week....

The day before the conference, Bentley announced that his state would refuse to take any Syrian refugees, becoming one of the many Republican governors to show their lack of compassion toward human beings who were forced to flee their home country due to terrorism and civil war....

“I fundamentally understand that you in a position of authority, like you governor and others, in addition to having compassion for others you have to be safety conscious for your people,” Rice said before pointing out that the Bush Administration actually took in tens of thousands of refugees over her four years of service as Secretary of State. “Generally under those circumstances we have been able to manage the flow but that has been 75,000 people a year at its height. But now we are facing hundreds of thousands.”

She also saw fit to explain American values to Bentley:
“What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.”