Rethink Your Position on Refuges

A fiery debate has broken out about refugees and especially about the possibility of refugees in Missoula, fanned perhaps by the sometimes incendiary tenor of the Presidential primary debates.

But a more dispassionate examination of the facts suggests that things are nowhere near as dire as some fear.

At the outset, we need to acknowledge that Europe finds itself in the most serious crisis in a generation. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are pouring across open borders into Germany alone, a country smaller than Montana. And the combustible concentration of crowds of hundreds of single men in...