Facts about the Syrian Refugees

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said, “it is true that we are not going to know a whole lot about the Syrians that come forth in this process…That is definitely a challenge….We know that organizations like ISIL might like to exploit this [Syrian refugee resettlement] program…The good news is that we are better at [vetting] than we were eight years ago”. Friday, however, he declined to join other Republican governors in a letter to President Obama, asking for the suspension of the resettlement program for Syrian refugees.

Cruz, November 19: And what’s astonishing among the Syrian refugees who’ve come to America – do you know that only 3 percent have been Christians? And the legal case for federal authority over refugees is sound.

Do you think Gov. Abbott is right?

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the bill balances security concerns after the terrorist attacks with the country’s immigrant tradition.

“You can be very compassionate towards people, but to me, my first responsibility is to my family, my community”, he said.

Americans are sharply divided over the Syrian refugee situation.

The brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three and injuring almost 300 others, were refugees, as their family sought political asylum in the U.S.in 2002.

The only reasonable solution to dealing with this humanitarian crisis is to create conditions in and near Syria that will permit people to safely remain near their home country.

Currently, Syrian refugees go through vetting that can take up to two years.

“As the leader of the free world, the wealthiest democracy on the planet – the USA must not turn its back on the Syrian refugees”.

The bill passed with enough Democratic support to overcome a veto but still must be adopted by the Senate, where the outlook is uncertain.

“It’s so important that we not fall for every Republican gambit, to give the impression that Democrats don’t care about safety and Republicans do, hence my vote for the bill that … says let’s have the top bureaucrat at each of these agencies assure us that they’ve done as thorough a job as we believe they are already doing, and that refugees don’t pose a danger in our communities”, Doggett said. However, Abbott and his fellow governors are misguided. Through the years the Muslim brothers became more and more hostile to the US, and Russia’s FSB warned the Federal Bureau of Investigation about them in 2011, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation found no connections to radical Islam.

Fourth, before an approved refugee arrives in the United States, US.

And therein lies the conundrum; wage all out war against ISIS and further ignite their apocalyptic passions or pull away from the fight and cede even more territory to murderous thugs.

The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has set up a vetting process to ensure that host countries have all required information about the future resident’s background. Donald Trump has questioned whether they are part of a “Trojan horse” plot, and Ben Carson has compared them to “rabid dogs”. Syrians, no less than those Jewish refugees, no less than my father, are human beings needing help, not flotsam. Many Americans have expressed deep concerns about terrorists and extremists infiltrating the resettlement program, especially after November 13 terror attacks in Paris killed 130 and injured several hundred.

From 2013 though November 17, the United Nations says it has referred 22,427 Syrian refugees to the US for “resettlement consideration”. And the administration’s planned acceptance of 10,000 Syrian refugees is a “goal, not a requirement”, she said. After a decade of United States destabilization efforts, we are now told that Syria is totally destabilized and we therefore must take in thousands of Syrians fleeing the destabilization that Washington caused. They fear attacks within the camps themselves, “reprisals” from terror groups like ISIS, who “absolutely detests” refugees for fleeing their caliphate, he added. This is as inhumane as it is un-American.