Iranians in America are upper middle class and Christian like the Patrick bet David guy
You know banning Gaza at a time like this would be very bad Optics with the boycott and protests and it’s not like the average American cares about Pakistanis or Iraqis
The era of the west accepting refugees is over it’s not 2003 anymore
That's why i said that those people were accepted way more because they are Christians and Jews and are on average way more patriotic to the US than other immigrant groups from Africa, Middle East and Asia that are more insular. Iranians in the West are usually from good and highly educated families compared to other refugee groups whom consists mainly of the poorer rural people.
I know about that optic but he has said that many times + he is already going after Harvard and other universities because of the Pro Palestine protests, not to mention using the Colorado attack against Israeli protesters as an example for the travel ban. Would not surprise me if he took would ban Gazans from entering the US if this war ended.
And i don't agree with your last sentence. The acceptance rates in the West overall are still high, especially for certain groups like Afghans, Eritreans. The lower acceptance rate for refugees in those countries is because of refugees from different places like Senegal, Mali, Colombia (in the case of Spain and France) or from the Maghreb or Balkan (in the case of netherlands, Belgium, Germany).
if they did not stop accepting refugees after 2015/2016 at the height of the whole terrorism and migrant crisis, why would they stop now?
They have suspended Syrians asylum claims in most of Europe and many of these leading right wing parties want them to leave but frankly that is not realistic and they know that damn well too. Why would someone leave a country where they have build a life in the past 6-7 years and go back to a country that is not even rebuilt? They have tried and not succeeded with previous refugee groups so i am not expecting anything out of this either. Especially with the strict laws on topics like human rights.