<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450201780130_2894" dir="ltr">In regards to taking in the tired and oppressed masses, I understand from a TV program yesterday (if it is on TV it has to be true of course?) that most of the few thousand refugees we have let in are usually either the well educated oppressed masses or the physically handicapped.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450201780130_3164" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450201780130_3162" dir="ltr">Generally I agree with Joshua, I am for open borders. I think anyone who can come in and can contribute to our society should be allowed in. Or, in the alternative, at least allow in anyone who can post say a $50,000 bond. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450201780130_3161" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450201780130_3160" dir="ltr">On the other hand, I would rather see those refuges stay at home and straighten out their own country - which may mean fighting and even dying for their freedom. Where would we be if our revolutionary fathers had just packed it up and left instead of fighting the British???? Or if settlers had fled back to the East at the first sign of an Indian attack on settlers?????</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450201780130_3159" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450201780130_3158" dir="ltr">At the most, I would like the international community use military force by just declaring certain parts of Iraq or Syria non-combat zones, where no one except peacekeepers were allowed guns. No ISIS and no government troops. No average Joe having his collection of AK47s stashed in his bedroom.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450201780130_3165" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450201780130_3166" dir="ltr">Roland Riemers of ND, Region 6 Rep. <br></div> </div></body></html>