"Let them in!" the "compassionate" left used to scream, right up until the moment that it became apparent that all those refugees were fleeing the results of US foreign policy, then mass immigration became a problem for them. Create the third world, import the third world, become the third world, just not in my backyard. That is the neoliberal playbook in a nutshell.

Funny how the US government doesn't want refugees from Cuba, BTW. I wonder why that might be...

Actually, no I don't. The US government wants only those immigrants who will vote for more government, hence they don't want people from Cuba, Venezuela, Ukraine, etc., but anywhere else is fine. And the more trouble those immigrants cause, the better, because it provides yet more excuses for international interventionism; it's a positive feedback loop. It's also one of the oldest tricks in the book.