Conservatives are rightfully outraged at President Joe Biden’s disastrous handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The backlash to the poor execution is all the more justifiable after a terrorist bombing attack in Kabul left 13 U.S. service members dead. Yet some conservatives are also reflexively opposing the idea of opening our doors to Afghan refugees amid the chaos. In this, they’re mistaken.

“Bringing potentially hundreds of thousands of Afghanis [sic] to America — this is a terrible idea,” Newsmax host Steve Cortes argued. “We should learn from the disastrous experience Europe had with Afghani [sic] men and systemic sex crimes against women.”