Things To Know About The Vetting Process For Syrian Refugees

Calls have mounted to bar the refugees after about 130 people died in attacks in Paris for which militants with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, have claimed responsibility.

“The whole sentiment, the atmosphere has changed 10 days ago”, said Nada Alawa, a Syrian immigrant who founded a nonprofit called NuDay that works with refugees resettling in the United States. Even if the United States were to admit 100,000 refugees, it still would be only a tiny fraction of the people displaced by the crisis in Syria.

Once accepted and resettled, the departments offer continued services to help the refugee become acclimated and self-sufficient within the new environment.

At that same hearing Comey reiterated, “The only thing we can query is information that we have”.

Of that number, 2,034 Syrian refugees have been admitted since FY 2011.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has called for an “immediate halt” to the intake of migrants and refugees.

But naivete is not the likely reason Peeler, fellow legislators, members of Congress and various governors have taken this stand. The more probable reason is the cynical calculation that there is potential political gain to be made from exploiting fears of terrorist activity in the wake of the Paris attack.

Bennie Thompson (left, D-MS, ) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA, ) would have strengthened the vetting process for all incoming refugees, but to a less stringent level than the level required by the GOP bill.

The House-passed bill essentially blocks new Syrian and Iraqi refugees by ratcheting up the vetting process to a level that intelligence officials say is now untenable. In Turkey and the Philippines last week, Obama pushed back on those proposals as un-American, drawing criticism from some who said he failed to grasp Americans’ post-Paris fears.

Attorneys who specialize in immigration law say the process is comprehensive and hard to pass. The refugees spend months or even years in temporary camps while their stories are considered and researched. How about Hillary Clinton, who came up with the bright idea that Bashar Assad must go?

Despite serious concerns regarding national security, this vote was not taken lightly.

Accordingly, the administration is still determined to accept 10,000 more Syrian refugees, nearly all of whom will be Muslim, despite the fact that some are ISIS operatives, while many share the ISIS worldview (as explained below). They are not the “cause of terrorism”.

Honduran authorities arrested five Syrians last week with stolen or doctored Greek passports that they said were headed for the U.S. Later, authorities said the five Syrian men were actually college students fleeing the war in their homeland. Were we to lift up the drawbridge and hide behind our walls, we would be shutting out heroes like Muhammad Gulab who risked everything to save American lives.

Incidentally, prioritizing Christian refugees would not merely be an altruistic gesture or the USA government’s way of righting its wrongs: rather it brings many benefits to America’s security. Yet two years later they set bombs at the Marathon in “retribution for US military action in Afghanistan and Iraq” as one of the brothers wrote in a note. “That is – if we don’t know much about somebody, there won’t be anything in our database”.

When persecuted Coptic Christians planned on joining Egypt’s anti-Muslim Brotherhood revolution of 2013, the USA said no.