Entering U.S. as refugees would be hard

Dozens of Democrats joined Republicans as the House passed the measure 289-137.

The Paris attacks also continued to roil the USA presidential race.

After recent bombings in Paris and Beirut have left hundreds dead and many more wounded, many politicians in the United States have raised concerns about the process through which Syrian refugees are allowed to enter this country.

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A close look at the vetting process, however, reveals that while absolute security will likely be out of reach, a few insist the US refugee resettlement program for all refugees is peerless, with multiple and deliberative layers of inspection and checks built into the process.

“It is one of the most robust security check programs within any immigration process”, an employee of the department of Homeland Security with intimate knowledge of the process told Mic. “I don’t think it’s something we should ignore, but the amount of vetting that goes on there already is very through”, King added.

A Syrian passport found next to one of the attackers’ bodies stoked fears that the man had been a refugee.

Usually, people are referred to a host nation by the United Nations refugee agency.

Sounds pretty rigorous. How does the refugee process stack up to other ways of getting into the U.S.?

As you might imagine, all of the vetting, from interviews to fingerprinting, takes a while. Any irregularities can shut down an application at any time.

“Our bill will be a straightforward solution that can make a real difference”, said Feinstein, who plans to introduce the bill after the holiday.

Organizations like Refugees Helping Refugees, which is run in part by refugees, aim to help people to navigate social services and ultimately become self-sufficient by learning English, job skills and how to find their way in US culture.

Someone else with deep insight into the process – and who could speak publicly – was Phyllis E. Oakley, the assistant secretary of State for population, refugees, and migration between. Now retired, Oakley was blunt about what she sees as the U.S.’s responsibility toward refugees.

“We can not repeat the dark days of the 1930s, when many Americans resolved to turn away the helpless refugees fleeing Hitler”, Reid said, “or our imprisoning of innocent Japanese Americans during World War II”.

He called Islamic State a “gang of thugs peddling a warped ideology” and said shutting out refugees would “play right into the terrorists’ hands” by increasing tensions between Muslims and the West. Pence announced this week that he would suspend resettlement of refugees in Indiana.

Statistics reported by the Migration Policy Institute, however, suggest that the 2009 incident is a vast outlier.

The program allows citizens of certain countries to travel to the United States without a visa. The attacks have turned the question of admitting people fleeing war-torn Syria and Iraq into a high-stakes political issue in both the United States and Europe, and many congressional Democrats were willing to vote against their party’s president for fear of angering voters nervous about security at home.

And, for those moved by the concept of hard figures, “unfounded” is, perhaps, a reasonable assessment.