Ted Cruz To Obama: ‘Come Back And Insult Me To My Face’

“I would encourage you, Mr. President, if you want to insult me, come back and insult me to my face”, Cruz said of Obama, who is in the Philippines.

“We have welcomed refugees – the exhausted, huddled masses – for centuries”.

In an interview with Steven Crowder, on his website Louder with Crowder, Cruz blasted the president for accusing Republican candidates of political posturing when it comes to the Syrian refugee crisis. Ted Cruz declared that Syrian refugees ought to be permitted in to america & argued in that this could possibly be done with out jeopardizing national safety.

Texas Reps. Lamar Smith and Brian Babin, both Republicans, today called for a “temporary suspension” of all refugee resettlement in the U.S. They cited the possibility of terrorists infiltrating the country both from overseas and through the southern border. Thirty one governors now say they don’t want them living in their states.

Cruz’s legislation, which would expire after three years, would provide a loophole to refugees from the countries that are otherwise blocked if they can provide “beyond doubt” that they qualify as a refugee and have been designated either by the State Department or by Congress as a victim of genocide.

In a few of his strongest remarks on the subject to date, President Obama on Monday denounced calls for a religious test for refugees and immigrants. “Obama has no strategy to defeat ISIS, and now he’s preparing to hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria into the United States”.

“We will not have a religious test, only a security test”, Ryan, said in a speech to the chamber.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush clarified on Tuesday that his call for the USA refugee program to give preference to Christians fleeing Syria does not exclude Muslims.

Roughly 2,200 refugees have been admitted to the USA from Syria since 2011, according to the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center.

Donald Trump whipped an energetic crowd into a frenzy last night, vowing to reject Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS and send home the ones who are already here – even suggesting a majority of Muslim voters would send him to the White House to do just that. “Come back and insult me to my face”, Cruz said.

But Friday night’s mass killings in Paris, which left at least 129 people dead, offered evidence that may have backed up what many had been warning: People with secret ties to Islamic militants could flow across borders as part of waves of refugees. Yahoo News investigative reporter Michael Isikoff reported that the administration will seek such a designation for the Yezidis, an Iraqi religious minority, though Christians are not likely to clear the bar. “But we also must remember that our first priority is to protect the American people”, he added.