Ryan: House refugee bill won’t have religious test

“If you really care about those people in Syria, why not take and put the resources in Syria instead of bringing hundreds of thousands of Syrians here?”

President Barack Obama would veto the legislation if it reaches his desk, the statement concluded. More specifically, Obama has a demonstrated track record of putting political considerations, and his own ego, above all other considerations. “We’re not going to turn our backs on children and families”.

Regardless of the motivation, fear mongering over the Syrian refugees will not make us safer. The bill would require that the heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence certify that each refugee being admitted would not pose a threat. Instead backing the vetting process of all refugees already in place. And Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, who is Jewish, invoked the story of the St. Louis, the boat filled with Jewish refugees from Germany that was turned away by the USA (and Canada) in 1939. “We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them”, Comey explained, quite sensibly.

We also looked at State Department data for the most recent month, October 2015.

Refugees are screened by several different agencies.

What was the Obama Administration’s response to the discovery of those bombers living in Kentucky? The Democratic candidate, John Bel Edwards, released a TV ad in early November accusing Republican David Vitter, who was linked to a 2007 prostitution scandal, of choosing “prostitutes over patriots”. The Washington Times reported on Tuesday that tensions are increasing between honest Federal Bureau of Investigation officials and Obama Administration political operatives. As Hollande had said, “Life should resume fully”. One attacker, killed in a suicide bombing, was identified through a fingerprint as a migrant to Europe from Syria.

The lawmakers who signed the letter to Inslee are: Sens. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told lawmakers this week that roughly 70 people have been charged with crimes related to foreign-fighter activity and homegrown violent extremism since 2013. Those who are selected for possible entry to the US are then subject to vetting by the National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center and the Departments of State, Defense and Homeland security. America doesn’t have that problem.

Congressional Republicans planned a vote, as soon as this week, to halt President Obama’s proposal to admit up to 10,000 Syrians, while most Democrats said the USA should continue helping refugees seeking to flee ISIS’s murderous regime and a savage civil war.

“The governor has said that he has no qualms about taking them”.

“Apparently they’re scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America”, Obama said.

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, emerging in the afternoon from a separate administration-led classified briefing on the vetting program, defended it as “very solid” but criticized the administration because “they haven’t done a good job of telling the governors and telling the mayors, telling the American public what the vetting process is”. It could have the practical effect of keeping refugees out of the United States entirely. The governors of MI and Alabama took it one step farther, declaring that Syrian refugees would not be permitted in their states.

The screening question should not be hard to address. Immigrant bashing also causes them to hate us. And we know this because it’s been doing it successfully for years. They don’t have a vetting process – they have a gambling system. The overall group is nearly evenly split among men and women. A few said they were anxious that Islamic extremists may try to take advance of the USA refugee process.