It is election year and the silly season. The most irresponsible announcement I have heard so far comes from the Green Party who want to bring 6000 Syrian refugees a year to New Zealand. This may sound a humane thing to do but have their policy makers no eyes and ears? Have they not learned anything from the mistakes of other countries in taking in these refugees whose religious views often become more extreme in a foreign homeland because they feel isolated from those in their country of origin?

This impacts on their children who often feel alienated growing up away from the customs of their country of origin so take their revenge by turning and becoming home-grown terrorists. So why invite the likelihood of terrorism to this country and put our way of life at risk when Australia, Britain, France, Belgium, Russia, USA, and Hungary have suffered vile acts of bombing and killings because they opened their borders and allowed Muslims and Muslim refugees in. Before returning home to take leadership of the Greens, James Shaw, I believe, lived and worked in Britain. Does he not see the problems created there by Muslim militancy?

M Hills, Hairini.