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Allowing zero refugees to resettle on American soil should be the absolute minimum requirement for any U.S. military action in the Middle East.
The Iran war is still in its early days. Our operations against the Iranian regime have so far been swift and apparently devastating.But those who remember Iraq know that Saddam Hussein’s conventional forces were destroyed in very quick order by U.S. troops in 2003. The trouble came afterward. Our attempts to stabilize the country, root out terrorists, and prop up an American-friendly regime bogged down into one of the “forever wars” Donald Trump campaigned against during the 2016 election cycle.
Our wars (sorry, “authorized armed conflicts”) in the Middle East didn’t bring us victory, but they did bring us a stream of “refugees” from the same Third World cesspits we were trying (and failing) to reform into proper nations.
We don’t know how the Iran War will end. It could be over in a few weeks, or it could be over by September. Or by September 2036. Regardless of how long it lasts or how devastating it is for Iran, we absolutely cannot take a single “refugee” from this conflict.
According to the Trump administration, we have no intention of bringing over any refugees from this latest conflict in the Middle East.
“It’s safe to say there’s no plan for a wave of new Middle Eastern refugees to the United States of America,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said to The Federalist’s Breccan Thies on Thursday.
“The president has pointed out for a long time, there are a lot of countries in the region who would be capable of providing that kind of support if need be. But that’s certainly not something we’re planning on,” he added.
That certainly seems like an encouraging answer, especially after decades of previous administrations doing the exact opposite. But, there’s a catch; one that should keep Americans on guard.
The administration has been light on details on what it has and has not planned in this war. We weren’t even told that the war itself was planned. We can’t even get a straight answer on what our objective is, whether there will be boots on the ground, what kind of retaliatory strikes we can expect from Iran, or whether this is even a war at all.
In fact, it seems like plans might already be changing. Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social that the U.S. would offer asylum to Iran’s National Women’s Soccer Team if Australia refuses to do so.
“Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran National Woman’s Soccer team to be forced back to Iran, where they will most likely be killed. Don’t do it, Mr. Prime Minister, give ASYLUM. The U.S. will take them if you won’t,” he wrote.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 9, 2026
According to Census Bureau data compiled from 2016-2020, an estimated 131,619 Afghans lived in this country, the majority of whom were relocated to the states during the war in Afghanistan. And that number ballooned after President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal in 2021. Another approximately 150,000 resettled in the United States from August 2021 to August 2024, during which Biden launched Operation Allies Welcome. That program gave more than 70,000 Afghans “immigration parole” to enter the U.S. As of January 2025, there were reportedly around 40,000 Afghans around the world actively seeking to come here. Nearly 15,000 Afghans arrived in the U.S. in fiscal year 2024, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report. --->READ MORE HERE
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