“I know many wonderful gerim and its a shame they cant marry any Syrians.”
For me, the bigger question is how someone can be friends with people in another group who would never consider them suitable marriage material. Wont it be akward at the shabbos table? I would not want to be friends with people in that group in the first place.
How do you make it so there is not animosity between such groups? How effective can a kiruv Rabbi be who would not consider the people he is being mekariv good enough to marry into his native community?