Homeland Security Defends Refugee Security Vetting

“Not when we respond on the basis of fear”. Closing our borders and ignoring the plight of mankind will only increase the threats to American security and our ideals. “Judaism has nothing in common with Communism”.

The governors called for an end to plans to resettle as many as 10,000 Syrians in the United States over the next year, in a debate that has mirrored discussions in European countries over whether resettlements endanger security.

Only a “very small proportion” of the refugees the United States accepts are unaccompanied adult males – usually survivors of torture, LGBT individuals, or those with disabilities, according to the letter.

That is a stain on our conscience that risks being repeated.

Ultimately, threats from Rauner and other governors to keep Syrian refugees out of their states are unenforceable.

Obama officials claim processing refugees for admittance into the US can take 18 to 24 months and that processing Syrian refugees can take longer.

Honduran authorities arrested five Syrians last week with stolen or doctored Greek passports that they said were headed for the U.S. Later, authorities said the five Syrian men were actually college students fleeing the war in their homeland.

Dana El Kurd, a graduate student at the University of Texas, volunteers her time tutoring Iraqi and Syrian refugee students at Anderson High School.

Some refugees travel beyond northern Europe.

When IN today shuns desperate refugees, it is shunning people like my family.

In the wake of the Obama administration’s announcement that we would be increasing our acceptance of Syrian refugees from 1,682 in fiscal year 2015 to 10,000 in fiscal year 2016, Governors like Scott Walker (R-WI) issued meaningless but stern refusals to Syrian refugees based on a false belief that there is no vetting process.

Cruz added he believed ISIS was already in the United States and more were coming.

Obama sought to change the subject Friday by throwing his support behind budding efforts to reform the visa waiver process, but those proposals seemed highly unlikely to satisfy critics who want the refugee program halted.

Refugee vetting has an excellent record.

The American people are rightfully afraid of what they see happening each night on their televisions.

The White House has faced intense scrutiny since the Paris terrorist attacks that left more than 120 people dead last week over the screening process that allows refugees into the country. The National Rifle Association has opposed legislation to rectify this. As reported by CNN, the vote was 289-137, with 47 Democrats joining 242 Republicans in favor of the bill, creating a majority that could override the president’s promised veto.

The only solution for the Islamic State is its richly deserved extermination. I’ll let you assign the proportion of each. “Mate, I can’t even get a text back from the girl I like, and you expect me to stop a terrorist organization?” Germany will accept 800,000 asylum-seekers this year. The top priority must be making Syria habitable so that refugees need not flee. While we are a nation of immigrants and lead the world in humanitarian assistance, the attacks in Paris confirmed our worst fears: ISIS can and will use refugee resettlement to infiltrate countries they wish to do harm. There is no question that Christians face more persecution in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East than Muslims do.