Hanna supports measure erecting fresh hurdles for Syrian and Iraqi refugees

The 47 Democrats who backed the bill, largely moderates and lawmakers facing potentially tough re-elections, were joined by 242 Republicans.

It would also require directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, and Director of National Intelligence to personally certify that each new settler would not be a threat to national security. 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. It also faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where Minority Leader Harry Reid has said he would try to block the bill.

But Republicans have raised concerns that terrorists could enter the United States through the refugee program in the wake of the Paris attacks.

“If the White House hadn’t royally f***ed this up they’d have lost maybe 20 Democrats”, he said, though he later voted against the House bill.

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin walks to a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, November 19, 2015, as Republican lawmakers prepare to push legislation through the House erecting fresh hurdles for Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, conceded that was the case, but said Friday that the US does have intelligence on the Syrians most likely to carry out violence.

“These very vulnerable individuals are already going through the most scrutinized refugee process in the world, including medical screenings, in-person interviews, and biometric screenings”, she said.

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A boy looks on as new Syrian refugees arrive at the global Organization for Migration at the Za’atari refugee camp on February 1, 2013 in Mafrq, Jordan. We endorse the statement of Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, President of USCCB, that Syrian refugees of all faiths deserve our support and help, not only those that are Christian. “So I can’t sit here and offer anybody an absolute assurance that – there’s no risk associated with this”. “However, given the complexity of the current situation and global threats of terrorist attacks, I worry that a few, under the guise of the refugee program, would come to our shores in a deliberate attempt to take advantage of our hospitality and do us harm”, he said.

President Barack Obama would veto a Republican bill introduced to toughen the screening process for Syrian refugees, the White House said on Wednesday.

About 3 million refugees have resettled in the United States through the program since it began in the mid-1970s. “The measure of moral leadership is our response when the world is tested, not what we do in times of peace and prosperity”.

He added: “The idea that somehow they pose a more significant threat than all the tourists who pour into the United States every single day just doesn’t jibe with reality”. “We must not turn our backs on them now”. Resettling the additional refugees will cost billions of dollars in welfare, education and entitlement costs.