With the largest Muslim-American and Arab-American communities in the country, you'd think that this state would be the best place to inculcate a sense of community in new arrivals. That's the best way to destroy pockets radicalism in the West.

Give people a sense of belonging.

and the Muslim communities are in the cities, which Michigan's GOP starves to death anyway. They hate cities: cities are engines of change and progress and freedom and liberty and the interactions of classes of people...

I live in the relatively safe, nominally progressive enclave of Ann Arbor, and even so there's a lot of subterranean GOP sympathizing going on here. I was told to my face that Bernie Sanders is "just a socialist" by one old hag.

and keep it that way.

are saying some progressives are tone deaf on this. You can't bring everyone in.

Out of about 4 million external Syrian refugees.

Bringing in a relative handful of refugees isn't "coddling;" it's basic decency, especially given that our hands are not clean in Syria.

Pandering to fear shouldn't be something we do.

Maybe you can pen a NEW New Colossus for us…

I do think we should set some sort of screening process about who is coming in from the Middle East. Unfort it won't be perfect and some bad guys might get in. But an effort should be made to truly help the syrians who have suffered.

You really think DHS and ICE wouldn't already have a vetting process in place for any and all refugee applications, not just those from Syria? You make it sound like there's either some kind of open-border policy in place where anyone can just buy a plane ticket and come over, or that refugees are being chosen by random number generator without any regard for their background and history.

"You don't know who is coming into the country" is the kind of fear mongering and "water muddying" phrase that I would expect to hear from far-right anti-immigration groups, not right here on DU.

just saw an article on alabama as well. i understand they want to keep out the "muslim" syrians.. but theres also a lot of non muslim syrians who will be affected by this.

And, according to some news reports, the attack in Paris seems to have been done by sunni muslims, so maybe we can test and admit the shiite muslim?

I think all mideast migration will be affected by this.

This is a federal issue, not Snyder's.

But, it plays well to his supporters.