We can't do both? We are a leader in the world and ignoring those that are suffering is despicable. We are a nation of immigrants. My great-grandparents came from Norway. I imagine yours came from a different country too. Plus the US is complicit in making many of these refugees. Banning women and children (most of those we are accepting) in countries where they're being killed is unconscionable.  If the current president wanted to end homelessness and hunger in the US, he'd spend that 16 billion on them not building walls.