Obama Administration Briefs Governors On Refugee Screening

The current refugee program, along with Obama’s plan to add 10,000 more Syrian refugees this year, would likely come to a stop while the new protocol is established. About half are women, usually heads of households, and about half are children. “Single men of combat age” represent only 2 percent of those admitted, and the elderly comprise another 2.5 percent.

Following President Obama’s criticism of Republicans for rhetoric that would prove to be a “potent recruitment tool” for the Islamic State, Ryan pushed back that Americans were anxious not because of politicians, but because of terror spreading around the globe.

“First of all, I’m pro-life, so we’ll have to see how this proceeds through the House and Senate and the conference committee”, he said in a quote redistributed by NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio.

The world is facing the largest refugee crisis since World War II, with over 60 million people displaced. Posing as a refugee seems to me like a very inefficient way to infiltrate a country that you want to attack, but maybe I’m wrong. “And it’s not what we’re going to do”, Obama tweeted late Wednesday morning. The USA will accept 85,000 people in 2016 and 100,000 in 2017. The only state that’s taken in more refugees is California, which has not yet made a statement regarding the new controversy.

Sen. Michael Bennet, sounding a common concern, said any refugees must be thoroughly screened before being allowed in.

“It is utterly un-befitting of a President to be engaging in those kinds of personal insults, attacks”, Cruz said, charging that Obama was “belittling the Republican field”.

After the refugees go through the UNHCR intake, the more intense screening begins, according to John Sandweg, former acting general counsel to the Department of Homeland Security and former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The vetting involves not only DHS but the National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, the Department of State and the Department of Defense.

Brennan said the USA “prides itself on its tradition of welcoming people from around the globe” and should “make sure that we are able to maintain our commitment to those values”.

What do critics say about this process?

Refugees are told they must complete addition steps even after they are matched with an agency to help them settle in the United States.

“There is a notion that refugees are the source of the problem”, Sandweg said. “Individuals get radicalized at home and it is not the wolf slipping in in sheep’s clothing”.

The OBama administration said Syrians and Iraqis are often heavily documented because the often totalitarian governments they are fleeing require massive paperwork as a means of political control. If a document is missing, interrogators are trained to question why and to compare those answers with others response from refugees.

What else happens during the interrogation? That includes lengthy interviews conducted by specially trained staff. At this time, the resettlement organization determines where in the United States the refugee will be resettled based on the availability of housing, employment, needed services, readiness of host community, and a variety of other factors.

“A specific group of refugees is being treated differently due to their country of natural origin and faith”, he said. “They are trained in forensic techniques. They use open sources and classified materials for the search”. State authorities have no legal authority to bar refugees from moving to their jurisdictions. There is also another layer of domestic law enforcement involved, he said.