America shouldn’t take in Syrian refugees

But in the letter Scott urges Congress to take action to prevent President Barack Obama from using United States of America tax dollars to pay for relocating Syrian refugees anywhere in the nation without an extensive evaluation of their national security risk.

Ryan’s remarks came amid mounting pressure from Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives to halt the government’s program to accept resettled Syrian refugees in response to the Paris attacks in which a militant posing as a refugee has been implicated.

Congress is under extraordinary pressure to act.

Congresswoman Blackburn is one of the House Republicans determined to stop Syrian refugees from reaching the U.S. She said the background checks already in place don’t do enough. On Tuesday, White House officials hosted a call with 34 governors to better explain current security screening measures.

The attacks focused the spotlight in Washington on national security with the November 2016 presidential election campaign heating up and Obama in the final year of his presidency.

There have been indications one of the Islamic State attackers in Paris carried a Syrian passport and may have arrived in France alongside refugees.

The Obama administration was responding to the fact that several dozen states, nearly all of them Republican-controlled, had announced their opposition to taking in refugees claiming security concerns after last Friday’s attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and wounded more than 350.

The US plans to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next two years.

“We’re fully aware that governors can not technically bar or preclude certain groups of refugees but it certainly doesn’t make our lives any easier and it certainly doesn’t make the refugees coming here feel welcome if they know these statements are being made”. Nonetheless numerous House conservatives who’ve caused problems for leadership on legislation of all kinds said they would support it. A few are also trying to figure out how Texas can keep those refugees out of the state.

Gov. Chris Christie gave a forceful rebuke Wednesday of President Obama’s swipe at Republicans rejections of Syrian refugees. But we can not allow terrorists to take advantage of our compassion. I know that one of them got into the country embedding himself with refugees, but majority did not.

The federal government controls resettlement programs, however, and state authorities have no authority to bar refugees from moving to their jurisdictions.