people who said we have to do more and also trying to address the concerns of those who are saying, how are you going to know that -- whether these are terrorists or not? as the obama administration has said, we have rigorous screening processes. in fact, it takes 18 to 24 months for refugees to go through the process as they're screened to make sure that they are not going to do harm when they come to this country, but this is a country of immigrants. we have been a welcoming country during our history. we have that statue of liberty sitting in the harbor off new york, and this is just a massive humanitarian crisis, caused by the war in syria that raged for more than four years, and that is what we need to address at its root if we're going to address the refugee crisis. as long as the continues we'll see people fleeing fleeing the .