Pogroms led many a Jewish family to pick up stakes and head for the ‘goldene medina’ (the “golden land”)- the sobriquet many used to describe the United States. Not much different from the thoughts of those in Central America, subjected to mayhem and kidnapping or murder, those in Syria subject to chemical attacks and barrel bombs from their ‘government’. And are welcomed as readily (i.e., NOT) by American citizenry.