Todd Starnes: Obama is importing Muslims, deporting Christians

Attacks in Paris on Friday that killed or injured roughly 500 people have become a political issue in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, as candidates call for the USA government to shut the doors to Syrian refugees, saying terrorists might infiltrate the ranks of the displaced. “Can you imagine that if in World War II, this country said that you had to be Christian to come?”

All of that and many more disturbing tales from the “Land of the Free” and the “Home of the Brave” in today’s BradCast… The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Bush reiterated his preference for accepting refugees who are Christian, after Obama criticized him.

In spite of these strong statements from respected religious voices, commentators have noted that conservative politicians have little to lose when expressing strong opposition to Syrian refugees, as The Washington Post reported.

“I don’t think it’s discriminatory to suggest that we should be duty bound to provide support for Christians who only due to their faith are being obliterated in the region”, he said.

But Bush said he wasn’t dissuaded from his position. “Refugees undergo biometric tests, medical screenings, and in-person interviews with Department of Homeland Security officials”. Only six Syrian refugees have been relocated in New Mexico since January 2014, according to the U.S. State Department’s Refugee Processing Center.

The Paris attack was linked to the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS), which has been one of the major combatants in the Syrian civil war that is leading to the refugee crisis there.

“For the last 15 months, the Obama administration has sought to search out and destroy ISIS, yet the group has only grown stronger and gained influence”, he said. People should be vetted no matter what we are. Thousands of families-women, men and children-are fleeing violence in the Middle East. Catholic Charities is a grantee agency that receives refugees from many parts of the world, including the Middle East.

Sen. Tom Udall, a New Mexico Democrat who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, urged balance in dealing with the Syrian refugee situation.

On Fox and Friends, Bush went on to say, “We have troops in Iraq, we have a few special operators in Syria, but we don’t have a strategy, Brian”. Cruz has applied a “religious test” to judge which refugees to admit, in the words of the White House, telling reporters across SC this weekend that he would admit all persecuted Christians to the US but no persecuted Muslims.

Asked about Trump’s suggestion mosques in the U.S.be put under surveillance or shut down, Bush said had confidence the Federal Bureau of Investigation was “doing their job”.

Lujan Grisham said we “can’t waver from that resolve to protect Americans”.