Drug Smugglers Flow Across Our Border, Syrian Christians Don't

Who should Americans see as worthier candidates for entering our country? Syrian Christians fleeing persecution — and possible beheading by the Islamic State — or smugglers moving drugs across our Mexican border?

Under existing U.S. law, a Christian fleeing from regions in Syria threatened or controlled by the Islamic State could claim asylum here. A smuggler moving drugs across our border has no justification at all.

Yet the way our federal government operates today, drug smugglers routinely cross our border while Christian refugees from Syria almost never do.

A recent report and a data set released by the Obama administration put this in perspective.