Joe Biden: Turning Away Refugees Is Giving ISIS What They Want

Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday that turning away Syrian refugees was exactly what the self-described Islamic State wanted.

Biden pointed specifically to comments by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in which he said that the group wanted to destroy the "gray zone" of coexistence in the West and make it so that Muslims felt they had to flee to the extremist group to escape persecution.

"To turn them away and say there is no way you can ever get here would play right into the terrorists’ hands. We know what ISIL -- we know what they hope to accomplish. They flat-out told us," Biden sai