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Odds of halting terrorists posing as refugees too high

In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 photo, Syrian refugee children play at a temporary refugee camp in Irbil, northern Iraq. Some 240,000 refugees who fled the fighting in Syria now live in Iraq. Their children are neither citizens of Syria, their families’ country of origin, or of Iraq, the country where they now live.
In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 photo, Syrian refugee children play at a temporary refugee camp in Irbil, northern Iraq. Some 240,000 refugees who fled the fighting in Syria now live in Iraq. Their children are neither citizens of Syria, their families’ country of origin, or of Iraq, the country where they now live. Seivan M.Salim AP

I would like to think I'm a compassionate person, but with all the recent events, I think we should pause in bringing in thousands of Syrian refugees. We now know women can be as evil as men. We also know children as young as 2 are being taught to lop off their dolls' heads and cheer.

It was estimated that at least three out of 1,000 refugees flooding Europe are Islamic terrorists with fake IDs.

Let's put this in proper perspective. I would like to set out a bowl of M&Ms candies. I'll put 1,000 in the bowl, three will be highly poisonous. The minute one of these three touches your lips, you will die.

How many of you are willing to let your children or yourself take a handful?

Barbara Yakos

Bradenton

This story was originally published December 13, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Odds of halting terrorists posing as refugees too high ."

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