Our President Wants to Build a Slum on Campus

It's astounding to me that I literally wrote out the exact answer to your first few questions and it somehow managed to go over your head.

That's because you did not answer my questions. You said Syrian refugees are fleeing from violence from their own countries. Then you said the homeless have a history of violence. That doesn't answer any of the questions I made.

As for your article it doesn't address what we're talking about. We're talking about violent crime in general which is an umbrella for multiple types of criminal acts. Whereas your article only addresses the threat of terrorism, the article says nothing about the crime rate of Syrian refugees.

However I will point out that even if it did have crime statistics on Syrian refugees (which I doubt you could find in the U.S. since we have very few of them anyways) I would suspect the crime rate to be low assuming that the demographics cited in the article are accurate. If most of the Syrian refugees in the U.S. are women and children, then yeah it's going to be low.

As I pointed out take a look at what's going on in Europe where they have admitted far more refugees into their countries. Germany and Sweden have taken in a disproportionate amount of refugees and unlike in the U.S. most of these refugees are young men. Like I said you can read about what's going on in these countries and there are a lot of problems. I'm not talking about terrorism by the way, I'm talking about violent crime in general.

Their choosing of where these camps are placed are ultimately done at the approval of themselves and (presumably, or rather hopefully) at the approval of the immediate surrounding community.

Unfortunately this isn't how it usually works though. Most communities whether they be a town or even a suburb have hierarchy where the people at the top make the decisions of what gets built in the community. The decision to build Section 8 housing in a particular community for example is not usually decided on by a Democratic vote by the people in the community. Usually the mayor of a town or a leader of a suburban neighborhood makes that decision. I'm sure the same thing is true with these tent cities and other homeless shelters. I mean let's be real here, the vast majority of American's are not very active in their own community at all.

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