Refugee Crisis in Syria Raises Fears in South Carolina

Refugee Crisis in Syria Raises Fears in South Carolina - The New York Times:
DUNCAN, S.C. — The worried citizens gathered in the high school cafeteria, about 200 strong. Patriotic songs played on the stereo, a man in a blue blazer from the John Birch Society hovered by a well-stocked literature table, and Lauren L. Martel, a lawyer from Hilton Head, told the crowd that 25 Syrian refugees were already living among them.
“The U.N. calls it ‘refugee resettlement’ — the Muslims call it hijra, migration,” said another speaker, Jim McMillan, a local businessman.
“They don’t plan to assimilate, they don’t plan to take on our culture.
They plan to change the way of American life.”
The United States government has pledged to increase the number of worldwide refugees allowed in the country each year from 70,000 to 100,000 by the year 2017; 
earlier this month, the Obama administration said it would take in at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year.
But the anger and anxiety here show just how hard this might be in some parts of the country.
....“This immigration fiasco that we’re in the middle of is going to take away the very things that we’re dear about,” Mr. Burns said..."