Yeah, I hate to bring it up, but I have worked with some refugee settlement stuff off and on over the last few years. Its about as close to the "action" as the government was ever going to let me get. I am afraid that this is going to play into the sympathies to the Jihadis if someone does counter-strike any mosques but it is likely the way that such a scenario is meant to play out.

Also, on the big picture, most of your Jihadi types are not poor refugees. They often come from the privileged classes in moderate Muslim countries.

Its a touchy issue here since we need a lot of those people to act as translators on the various communications intercepts going on overseas along with people willing to go back on behalf of US interests and capable of blending in those societies with loyalties rooted here in America instead of there. That's where I saw the value in refugees. Get them over, treat them nice, and they are more likely to end up a US asset than IS asset. The IS knows that. While some consider that if 2% of the refugees are going Jihadi on us, the Jihadis have to figure a good 20%-30% will go hard core American loyalist on them, and that's "new Americans" who know the local languages and culture in the areas that the Jihadis wish to control. In either event however, it brings the game home and it will no longer just be a war "over there".