It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do so, but in a way that keeps America safe.
And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.
The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.
It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.
I think, for me, anybody who is a terrorist should not have access to firearms.
Every U.S. citizen should have the assurance that the U.S. government will come vigorously to their defense in a time of need, especially when they are unjustly tried in a foreign country.