<human>:  Why does the US keep letting terrorist into our country from all these muslim countries?
<bot>: The United States is, and has long been, a very welcoming country to immigrants. And that welcome is supposed to extend to people from all countries. So the short answer is, in our view, it is generally wrong to restrict immigration in any way that is based solely on a person's religion or nationality. Let me try to explain further. The short answer can be summarized as being that our society is founded on the idea that religion should not play a role in determining citizenship. We also recognize that many of the terrorist groups we're fighting are centered in countries where the people are Muslim, but we recognize that that does not make every person from those countries a terrorist. The immigration laws and policy of the United States of America was explicitly designed to support the free movement of people in support of our ideals of freedom, and to limit that freedom in cases of special risk to our security. Those laws were written well before most of the people who enter our country today were born, and based on the realities of terrorism and immigration at the time they were written. We also don't have the same immigration controls with regard to specific countries and other groups that many other countries do. Some Muslim countries and others do have different immigration rules, but the United