Here's the thing, we as a nation have regressed. Women's rights are at risk, immigrants rights are at risk, Americans rights at risk, human rights are at risk. I've been asking people lately, "are all human lives equal? Unsurprisingly, everyone said yes. So then I asked, "do you want America to accept refugees?". Some said yes, many said no. Finally, I would ask "why?". I would get an array of answers to this one. "Because of radical Muslim's." Because we have no reason to help them." "They need to take care of themselves, just like we do."

"Because it's not our job."

Okay, maybe its not our job as a country, but it is most definetley our job as human beings. It just blows my mind how people can sit idly by while there are thousands of innocent people dying. How people can just sit there and act like its nothing. How people can see a sobbing child and turn them away. Yes, we're in a time of violence and war. Yes, we need immigration restrictions and rigorous checks for refugees. Yes, the world is different now then it was one hundred years ago. But humanity is not.

Why are American lives more important then refugee lives? Mexican lives? Why is making money more important then saving our planet? Why do we put ourselves on such a pedestal? Human beings are a team and we are only as strong as our weakest member.

There are innocent people who need our help. And our country is ignoring them because there is potential for terrorists to come with them.

But, here's a news flash.

Terrorist are criminals. They will get in if they want to. A robber isn't going to knock on your door and ask to come in. Their going to crash through the upstairs window.

Yes, terrorists could come with them. Yes, there could be an attack. Yes, Americans could die. But by ignoring the refugees, we are sentencing them to death. Thousands of innocent people will die. The only thing that makes it okay in peoples minds is Americans won't be the ones dying.

How f***ed up is that?

American lives are not worth more then Syrian lives.

American lives are not worth more then Syrian lives.

American lives are not worth more then Syrian lives.

Sure, call me whiny millennial, call me a candy-a**, call me spineless. But you are the ones letting innocent people die because you're so scared of a potential terrorist infiltration.

It takes more courage to be kind than it does to be cruel.