Obviously, once you decide to plug your ears and shout “I can’t hear you,” as we can only assume Miller did in the face of inconvenient data, it’s easy enough to devise anti-refugee statements that sound pretty scary. Like, for example: “Under the refugee program, the federal government brings tens of thousands of entrants into the United States, on top of existing legal immigration flows, who are instantly eligible for time-limited cash benefits and numerous non-cash federal benefits, including food assistance through SNAP, medical care and education, as well as a host of state and local benefits,” as the White House argued in its May budget proposal. Cash benefits! Non-cash benefits! It’s enough to overwhelm the senses and, apparently, one’s reasoning ability.

As for the draft that never saw the light of day? The Trump administration contends that it is critics, not the White House, who aren’t thinking with their head. “This leak was delivered by someone with an ideological agenda, not someone looking at hard data,” Raj Shah, a White House spokesman, told the Hive in a statement. “The actual report pursuant to the Presidential memorandum shows that refugees with few skills coming from war-torn countries take more government benefits from the Department of Health and Human Services than the average population, and are not a net benefit to the U.S. economy.”

Not all Republicans agree. “From a national security standpoint, while we can’t take an unlimited number of refugees, we need to show our friends and allies that we stand with them and this is a shared burden,” former George W. Bush Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff told the Times. “They’ve generated a lot of economic value. I don’t think refugees are coming to take American jobs.”

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Oops, Equifax was hit by another major hack

Among the major gripes many people currently have with credit-reporting company Equifax, one of the biggest is the fact that despite apparently learning about the massive breach that may have affected as many as 143 million Americans’ personal information back in July, it wasn’t until September that the company disclosed it to the public. And if people are mad about that, they’re unlikely to be super thrilled that Equifax is said to have suffered a separate attack back in March. Per Bloomberg: