French Police Release Photo Of Suspected Paris Bomber

Yet amid the howls of horror over the atrocities in France, there is a crescendo of voices demanding Europe stop refugees from seeking sanctuary, since a murderer might have sneaked in among hundreds of thousands coming here to escape war and repression. STRICT CONDITIONS Others have proposed separate measures setting strict conditions on admitting Syrian refugees, such as requiring the Federal Bureau of Investigation director to certify that refugees’ background checks have been completed, and an audit of the vetting process. Speaker Paul Ryan, less than three weeks in office as leader of the House Republicans, said he had set up a task force to consider legislation “as quickly as possible” that would pause Obama’s Syrian refugee plan.

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JB: Yes, I think it is, which is very sad. Because, in a way, being exposed to the direct impact of terror at one level should make people understand why people in Syria are so desperate to leave and why they need protection.

“A Syrian “refugee” appears to have been part of the Paris terror attack”. Most Americans see the United States as a beacon of freedom and compassion. Yet over the weekend he announced that he was going to suspend the refugee resettlement program – never mind that metro-Detroit’s Dearborn is home to the largest Arab population outside of Middle East whose residents, despite occasional scare mongering by official reports, have never committed an act of terrorism. Numerous asylum seekers flooding Greece are arriving without passports. French officials did not identify the second fugitive. The refugees I have met in Germany, Greece and Italy this year loathe Isis with bitter intensity – and the feeling is mutual, since the fanatics dislike those leaving their domain for undermining their proclamations of a paradisiacal caliphate. That’s especially so since a few of those opposed to admitting more Syrian refugees (not including Kasich) say the USA ban should apply only to Syrian Muslims.

The USA can and should improve the refugee vetting process by undertaking the appropriate risk assessments and consulting with Congress on the strategies for managing those risks.

“Filling your country up with people who have a completely different belief system… and expecting they won’t rise up against their benefactor is foolish”, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, a leading immigration hardliner, said in an interview. So the U.S. has not been generous at all in what it’s offered so far.

He added: “In this case, we have a very serious national security issue, which we did not face during the 1930s when the Jews were trying to get out of Europe”.

JB: As a matter of global law, you can’t be a refugee unless you’re outside your own country.

The clampdown on asylum after 9/11 had an even looser relationship to facts than the current conflation of Syrian refugees with members of Islamic State. They’ve been working in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and inside Syria since 2011.

But he says “there’s every day 5,000-7,000 people here, women and children fleeing violence…it would be totally unfair to blame refugees” for terrorist activities in the world.

“Immigrants who are out of control do not help security”. One friend tweeted: ‘I have no words, only tears’. We have no money, and we’re waiting without any idea of what is to happen. So, there needs to be a sophisticated and dedicated diplomatic effort to address that. One of the reasons so many people are fleeing from the camps or from the neighboring area is because their life has become untenable. There’s hardly any medical care and nothing but emergency medical care.

National Review’s Andrew McCarthy explains more here. So that’s number two: much greater and more organized humanitarian aid, much higher contributions from the rich countries into the United Nations funds. “We want to reach Germany or Switzerland”.

This is a new diaspora.

She called the heightened politicization of the crisis a serious concern, accusing people of fear-mongering.