Highest level security checks for Syrian refugees
“Ever since William Penn, Pennsylvanians have been generous and welcoming to oppressed minority groups”. Many of these nations faced threats to their very nationhood in the past, with Poland wiped off the map in the 19th century, Hungary losing two-thirds of its territory after World War I, and nations across the region subjected to Soviet control during the Cold War – all factors seen as contributing to anxieties over nationhood.
Fagge’s article on the experience caught the attention of Monday morning’s edition of Fox & Friends, where he appeared to discuss just how easy it apparently is to attain a Syrian passport – regardless of whether or not you’re actually a Syrian refugee.
Speaking on public television, Waszczykowski, who takes office today, also said through this method, the refugees could be gainfully employed, according to Radio Poland.
Separately, Serbian newspaper Blic reported Monday that police in Serbia had detained a refugee holding a Syrian passport with the same data as the one authorities found at the scene of the Paris attack. One can not dismiss the people’s apprehension that terrorists may be coming into their countries posing as refugees. “But our first priority is protecting the safety of our residents”. This comes as governors in several other states announced they would stop accepting them.
The head of the Council on American Islamic Relations said Syrian refugees have been through enough already.
“Lancaster has been a destination for refugees for quite a long time”.
It was not clear whether the passport was real or fake, but trafficking in fake Syrian passports has increased as hundreds of thousands of people try to get refugee status, the chief of the European Union border agency Frontex has said. United States president Barack Obama said he hopes to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country in the next 12 months. “It is wrong to equate refugees with terrorists”.
“Slamming the door in their faces would be a betrayal of our values”, he told reporters at the G20 summit in Turkey.
The news has left many to question what should happen with the Syrian refugee program in the U.S.
The USA has admitted fewer than 2,200 Syrian refugees since October 1, 2011 and the process for entering this country as a refugee is lengthy. Obama disagreed, noting that this country – unlike the Islamic State – is open to people of all religions.
“That’s shameful”, he said at the G20 summit in Turkey. It is imperative that we do everything in our power to prevent any similar attack by evildoers from taking place here in America. “We don’t have religious tests to our compassion”.
“I don’t know that the states have the authority to decide whether or not we can take refugees”.
As the G-20 deliberates on finding a way to decimate the IS in Syria and Iraq and bring back stability in the region, perhaps it also needs to come up with a way to deal with the refugee crisis while instituting realistic security checks on the migrants.