craig, countries are obliged to do things for which majorities may not agree. Refugees don't leave their homes and homelands without good reasons. They are dependant on the kindness of strangers. Canada with a tenth of the US population decided to take in vastly more than the US---175,000 to 1700?--- because it's the right thing to do.

Similarly Canadians on most days would vote to bring back capital punishment but it's not what modern societies do for good reasons---except for the US. Not to put too fine a point on it, an American minority just elected a new president with a much lower approval rating than the incumbent to smash their unrepresentative governance and start over again.

Americans did this from loathing and fear, living on two distinct planets, with the full knowledge that the man who would change everything to their wishes would discover through the country's deep divisions and the Constitution's division of powers, all those vaunted checks and balances, he is powerless to keep those main promises, as did Obama.

You won't send him back nor Canada its refugees because our sovereign people know it's the right thing to do. We know from experience that Canada can't survive as a great country without New Canadians, and that immigrants do better in the work force and educational achievement than those born in this country. It's easier for Canada to accommodate multiculturalism. It doesn't suffer from two civil wars---you called the first a revolution---and unerasable racial wounds.

Best of luck, dear America, best of luck.