The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has an article showing that, for the cost of relocating one Syrian refugee to the United States, twelve Syrian refugees could be helped in the Middle East. That's quite significant.

Therefore, if the real goal is to help Syrian refugees, wouldn't it make more sense to help them in their own region?

On the other hand, if the goal is to further transform the United State, then the importation of Syrians makes perfect sense.

Here's the first paragraph of the CIS article: