Naomi:
// Jim, //that we cannot let everybody in without at least some level of decent background security check.//
But that isn’t happening with the people flooding into Europe. We have no idea who's coming here. //
No, it certainly hasn't been what's happening -- as I noted elsewhere, the EU's response has been fairly pathetic no matter what side of the debate you are on. The problem being that the refugee crisis has exposed that the EU isn't really a union at all, incapable of setting up a coherent external border and closing the internal borders at virtually the first sign of trouble. Pretty awful, really.
Doesn't change my opinion on what should be happening, though -- control of the borders without arbitrary restriction of numbers, while trying to do something about stopping the source of the flow, the current instability in the Middle East. Achieving all of this is of course impossible.