As President Obama politicizes the issue of admitting Syrian refugees into the U.S. who have not been properly vetted – by mocking Republicans who are opposed to the plan as cowards – there has been an upsurge of anti-immigrant sentiment building not just within the U.S. but all over the Western world.

If you've not heard about or read about any of that, that's understandable, considering that the mainstream American media – and many of its Left-leaning counterparts overseas – haven't done their duty and reported it.

But some have, fortunately, and their reporting provides insight and context to an increasingly complex issue made even more so by the recent attacks in Paris. One of them is Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcaster.

The media company reported that, following the Paris attacks, massive anti-immigrant protests were launched in nearby Poland. Local media in that country have also reported the story of a Polish national living in Norway who was arrested on terrorism charges in his native land after fighting for several months in Syria on behalf of ISIS, the group that claimed responsibility for killing 129 people in Paris recently.

The suspect, a 26-year-old, was apprehended by Polish authorities in the city of Lodz; a spokesman for the local public prosecutor's office there told reporters that the man could spend as many as six years in prison.
 

'How will we protect ourselves?'

DW.com further reported:
 

In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, the case - and the implication that IS was already active in Poland - focused the anxieties of many ordinary Polish citizens on immigration from non-European countries and how it might affect them personally. The former liberal cabinet of Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz agreed to accept 7,000 immigrants. It also pointed out that in the 1990s, 80,000 Chechens found a home in Poland and were successfully integrated into Polish society.

But that has not convinced all Poles.