A lot has happened in the world these past few weeks. A Russian plane was bombed, killing everyone on board, Belgium has been put on lockdown, Paris was bombed and Syrian refugees landed in New Orleans. China, Russia and France have hinted at or declared all-out war with ISIS.

Last week I went out with some friends. On our way back home, the topic of ISIS and the refugee crisis came up.

I was shocked to hear one of the girls I drove with saying that she is not afraid of ISIS, but of the “white people” who want to do something about ISIS. She said that any ISIS members who may come over with the refugees and the refugees themselves are in far more danger than we are.

ISIS put out a list in May, which was first reported by Fox News, of seven states they are ready to attack. Guess who was on the list? Michigan. They’ve also threatened large cities in the U.S. like Atlanta and New York City.

After what happened in Paris, 31 states, including our own, declared that they will not accept refugees. I think that’s a good idea.

Why?

The people running ISIS aren’t stupid. If anything, they’re brilliant. They’ve been wreaking havoc on the world for months now and have put fear into the hearts of many. If you think that ISIS members didn’t come to America with the refugees, you’re wrong.

If anything, the refugee crisis is a great way to get around the world. The refugees as a whole aren’t dangerous, but ISIS members could be with them. And that makes the refugee presence in America or anywhere else dangerous. It’s no coincidence that the Paris attack happened about a month after refugees landed on French soil.

In fact, two of the three suicide bombers involved in that attack got to Europe posing as Syrian refugees, which was discovered through passports and fingerprints and confirmed by news outlets like the Wall Street Journal and ABC News. As of a few days ago, the third bomber is also suspected to have posed as a refugee.

I’ve seen so many pictures on Facebook comparing the refugees to America’s first settlers saying that the Native Americans accepted us, so we should accept the refugees.

For one, the Native Americans didn’t take settlers in; it was more like an invasion. Second, those pictures always leave out the part where some of those settlers and their descendants killed thousands upon thousands of Native Americans

To compare to that, ISIS has killed over 170,000 people, and that number is only growing.

And the refugee crisis has already put ISIS members everywhere. They’ve killed Russians, Japanese, Lebanese, French and Syrians. And they’ve claimed that the British and Americans are next in line.

We don’t need to sit back and be scared — that’s what they want. What we need is to do something. Right now, one of the only things we can do is not accept the refugees since our government doesn’t want to get involved in another war.

Not accepting the refugees would keep America safe. The quicker they get here, the quicker the murderers that travel with them get here. We should do something to stop them.

Because we’re Americans,

мы русский

私たちは日本人です

Nous sommes Français

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We’re human beings, and we need to stop these monsters.