We the people have legitimate security concerns with refugee resettlement.

These concerns are not derived from fear, xenophobia, or prejudice; they are based on good old common sense and actuality.

Our future is contingent on sensible measures and preventive actions such as the Ravalli and Flathead County commissioners have embraced.

I applaud their realism, courage and determination as our elected leaders to protect and serve the citizens of Montana and our nation.

We are living at a time when a keen sense of situational awareness is crucial for our safety. That is why “see something, say something” has been widely promoted.

There is irrefutable evidence of gang violence, sexual assaults and community destabilization created by the miscreants within the wave of refugees.

The most sophisticated intelligence agencies on the planet have confirmed refugee screening and vetting is not achievable due to data gaps and other vulnerabilities and that ISIS has and will infiltrate refugee populations.

Countless illegal immigrants and unidentifiable refugees will further burden our struggling programs and systems, exacerbating our staggering debt, which already threatens our national security.

Islamic terrorism is an inimitable threat of epic proportion. People in San Bernardino showed compassion, and then were slaughtered by radical Islamic extremism, suggesting that assimilation and allegiance to the republic is improbable.

What was a soft landing for Islamic terrorist Tashfeen Malik resulted in  a hard ending for those ill-fated and benevolent souls who were murdered.

What is most disturbing in all of this is PC personal maligning of Americans for exercising their free-speech rights in opposing open immigration and unrealistic refugee resettlement that puts us at risk.

— Keith Kubista is a resident of Stevensville, where Ravalli County commissioners have taken a position against refugee resettlement.