It's my understanding that Lincoln actually has one of the highest, if not the highest refugee per capita population in the nation. I guess it's fair to say the part of town that population is concentrated in is the worst, but it's better than the bad areas of most cities.
I don't even understand our immigration policy. Seems to amount to we'll take educated professionals that will work for less than Americans with open arms, and we'll take illegal unskilled labor with a very two faced attitude. That is, we need you, but we don't want you here, and being an illegal manual laborer is perhaps one degree better than a slave in ancient civilizations. Why not take more refugees that actually want to be here, work, and possibly stay if they get on the path to citizenship? The problem Europe has with the doomsday examples is that becoming integrated as a citizen is not part of plan.