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This week, we\u2019ve been having a national conversation about candy. "If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?'' states a tweet posted by Donald Trump Jr. earlier this week. "That's our Syrian refugee problem." "This image says it all. Let's end the politically correct agenda that doesn't put America first." Trump Jr.\u2019s image has gone viral\u2014but not necessarily because its message resonates with the truth. \u201cThere are theological problems with comparing human beings made in the image of God to candy,\u201d said Matthew Soerens, the US director of church mobilization at World Relief, a group which helps the government resettle refugees. He added: \u201cIt\u2019s a good rhetorical tool but it\u2019s based on bad data.\u201d Only two refugees out the thousands that have been admitted since the 1970s had committed terrorist attacks, said Soerens, citing a recent report from the Cato Institute. \u201cThere\u2019s been none since the 1980s.\u201d \u201cIf you include that, the odds of being killed by a refugee who commits terrorist activity in the United States if you\u2019re an American is 1.36 billion,\u201d said Soerens. In spite of this debate, this past fiscal year, the US welcomed more than 10,000 Syrian refugees. But while Christians have been increasingly persecuted by ISIS, fewer than 150 entered the country this year. So where are they, asks Nina Shea, who directs the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute. \u201cThey are facing genocide by ISIS...the worst human rights violation of all,\u201d said Shea. \u201cThey are not coming into the United States in the proportion that would be fair.\u201d Soerens and Shea joined Morgan and Katelyn to discuss what obstacles may be facing Syrian Christians trying to enter the United States, why many may have remained in their homeland, and whether the US should double the number of refugees it admits annually.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices