Joe Biden Advocates for Syrian Refugees: ‘Refugees Face the Most Rigorous

“We might as well take down the Statue of Liberty”, he said.

Syrian refugees are subjected to “the most rigorous screening and security vetting of any category of people entering the United States”, according to senior administration officials.

Rep. Walter Jones, left, voted against a bill co-sponsored by Rep. David Rouzer, right, that would strengthen security checks for Syrian refugees. The U.S. House of Representatives with its Republican majority passed a bill this Thursday to tighten restrictions on admitting Syrian refugees, despite Obama’s warning that he will veto such legislation.

These latest developments on Capitol Hill have the nonprofits particularly anxious. The resettlement program in recent years has annually welcomed between 70,000 and 80,000 people to the US, with about 2,200 from Syria since 2011.

Other Iowans of faith struggled more openly with the balance. Obama wants to take in roughly 10,000 Syrians in the next year.

The governors, mostly Republican, have pressed for bans in their states since it emerged one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe with migrants. American politicians began lashing out against plans to bring more Syrians to America.

He allegedly told administration and congressional officials that the legislation would make it impossible to allow any refugees into the US, and could even affect the ability of travelers from about three dozen countries that are allowed easier travel to the USA under the visa waiver program, the unnamed officials said. “That has a positive impact in terms of the disposition people around the world have toward the U.S. You don’t want to play into the narrative of the bad guy”.

Describing Islamic State as a gang of thugs wrapped in ideology, US Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday said the militant group will never prevail and the world stands united in its resolve to destroy the evil terror outfit.

There is no doubt that, given how they treat refugees, Republicans deserve a scolding. They showed us once again the depths of the terrorist’s depravity.

The fact that so numerous terrorists involved in the Paris attacks were French and Belgian citizens who had fought in Syria or were supporting that effort, at least one of whom appears not to have been on US government watch lists, is the key fact to focus on from a USA national security perspective, not the fact that one of the attackers had posed as a Syrian refugee.

In a November 20 letter signed by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry obtained by the Dispatch, the two lay out the country’s current extensive system for approving refugees, including interviews by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and biometric screenings by the Department of Defense. “This program is locked and tight”. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Republican Sen. “And the process we have to vet refugees whether they’re Syrian s or coming from anywhere else is long and extensive”, Wittes explained.

Church leaders are trying to counter this “can’t be too careful” approach with the Bible, which repeatedly exhorts: “Do not be afraid”.

“Be not afraid”, said Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry in a statement released by the church on Wednesday. We need to find and implement an effective means of vetting those who we let into the country.