You may say &quot;I don&#x27;t want to send them back to Syria&quot; but there are only two real choices: to take your share of refugees and work with other countries to get them to do the same, or to wash your hands of them and leave them to the wolves.<p>There was a boat of Jewish refugees that Roosevelt hoped would be accepted to Cuba but whom the United States was unwilling to accept. 254 of those refugees ended up murdered in the Holocaust: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MS_St._Louis#.22Voyage_of_the_Damned.22" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MS_St._Louis#.22Voyage_of_the_...</a>.