Measure to Block Syrian Refugees Passes the House

“And unlike in Europe, refugees don’t set foot in the United States until they are thoroughly vetted”, he said.

Hahn defended her vote to add the additional measures of security to the U.S. vetting process of immigrant applicants, stating that she didn’t expect the extra layers of security to increase the amount of time it takes to process applicants. “However, we are deeply concerned that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria may have exploited the generosity of the refugee system to carry our [last] Friday’s terrorist attack in Paris”. “Refugees wait 18-24 months while the screening process is completed”.

Certainly that’s true with all of the Republicans from Arizona, who’d fear that voting against the bill might draw a primary election challenge.

The president has insisted he’ll veto a bill in Congress raising the bar for entry for Syrian refugees.

At last count, 31 governors, all but one a Republican, have said their states won’t take any Syrian refugees. “And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing that will show up because we have no record of them”. “Its fate is uncertain there, and if it reaches President Obama’s desk, he has said he will veto it. But in a stunning rebuke to the White House, the legislation passed the House with a veto-proof majority”. 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.

Others decried what they described as a knee-jerk reaction following the Paris attacks, one that hurts the very people who are fleeing extremism.

We have 110 million Americans in this country who own 330 million guns.

Worldwide law does allow the United States to return refugees to their country of origin in three specific cases.

The Obama administration has responded to Gov. John Kasich’s concerns about the state accepting Syrian refugees with a five-page letter assuring Kasich that the security vetting “is extraordinarily thorough and comprehensive”.

The moral position holds that the United States, because of its national privilege, should be the benefactor to these Syrian refugees. “They want us to turn our backs on Muslims victimized by terrorism”. “Second thing is, there are a lot of ISIS sympathizers in this country, the FBI already has investigations in all 50 states we already have an ISIS problem here, let’s not delude ourselves”, Mudd said.

Visiting refugee children at a shelter in Malaysia, President Obama said Saturday that America’s leaders shouldn’t fear young Syrians and others from war-torn nations seeking to emigrate to the U.S.

For House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra of California, while he agreed about safety as top priority, he also acknowledged that the current security screening process for refugees in the toughest in the world, noting, “that is why so few refugees from Syria have been accepted to date”.