{"id":80806,"date":"2015-11-30T17:03:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T01:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80806"},"modified":"2015-11-30T17:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T01:03:41","slug":"fox-news-son-of-holocaust-survivor-dont-let-syrian-refugees-in-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80806","title":{"rendered":"Fox News: Son of Holocaust survivor: Don&#8217;t let Syrian refugees in to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2015\/11\/19\/son-holocaust-survivor-dont-let-syrian-refugees-in\/\">Fox News<\/a>: The son of Holocaust survivors, Harry Maryles tells stories of his father hiding out in underground bunkers and his mother living off food scraps in a Polish forest for years to avoid the clutches of Hitler\u2019s henchmen.<\/p>\n<p>So Maryles is in a unique position to push back against a rising narrative from those claiming Americans fearful of accepting Syrian refugees are repeating the \u201cjingoistic\u201d mistakes of a country that rejected Jewish asylum seekers prior to World War II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Jew would have come in disguised as a peace-loving individual and then joined a sleeper cell and become a suicide bomber,\u201d Maryles told FoxNews.com on Thursday. \u201cIt was a different situation. Now you have situations where [terrorists] will do anything to achieve their goals. And keeping out innocent people is part of the price you pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maryles, 69, who is retired from a Chicago dental laboratory business, said he is \u201ctorn\u201d when he sees the Syrian refugees who have fled their country\u2019s civil war and the expanding ISIS caliphate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow could you not want to help?\u201d Maryles said.<\/p>\n<p>But Maryles also recognizes the risk that Islamists have infiltrated the refugee\u2019s ranks, and he questions the wisdom of the Obama administration\u2019s plan to shrink the vetting period from at least 18 months \u2013 while at the same time increasing the number of refugees accepted into the U.S. five-fold, to 10,000 in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is you now have a situation where people of similar backgrounds and similar looks can easily come in with these refugees and create the kind of problems that we saw in the Paris terror attacks,\u201d Maryles said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News: The son of Holocaust survivors, Harry Maryles tells stories of his father hiding out in underground bunkers and his mother living off food scraps in a Polish forest for years to avoid the clutches of Hitler\u2019s henchmen. So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holocaust","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80807,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80806\/revisions\/80807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}