USA. Aurora, Illinois. 2015. Mahmoud al-Haj Ali shops at Cer- mak in Aurora, Illinois. Al-Haj Ali and his family are part of a very small number of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States during the Obama administration. Though the U.S. has played one of the most prominent roles in destabilizing the Middle East, the political or societal desire to take responsibility for refugees has been negligible. Since 2011, there have been almost 5 million Syrian refugees globally, but during Obama’s presidency, the United States accepted fewer than 19,000 of them. After Trump’s election, these numbers dipped dramatically, and in 2018, only 62 Syrians were admitted. Of the millions of refugees from Afghanistan, only 16,503 have been tak- en into the U.S. The figures from Iraq are somewhat better, with 143,729 entering since 2003, but under Trump, the number of Iraqi refugees fell, too, dwindling to just 91 in 2018. By contrast, after the fall of South Vietnam, approximately 1.3 million Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians were resettled in the United States.