Obama says GOP incitement on Syria refugees ‘needs to stop’

This has even resulted in criticism, he noted, that it’s taken too long “to show the kind of compassion that we need to for these folks who are suffering under the bombings of Assad and the attacks of ISIL”.

Obama’s comments during a meeting with Philippine President Benigno Aquino marked his harshest condemnation yet of Republicans’ response to the Paris attacks blamed on IS that killed 129 people last week. “Our first and foremost priority, however, must be ensuring the safety of the American people”, Rep. Dold said. Overnight in Manila president Obama expressed outrage at public calls to keep Syrian refugees out of the united States.

There is no appeal, and the process typically takes from one to two years. “To the average person, it seems perfectly reasonable to be suspicious of admitting Syrian refugees to the country”. “We can be compassionate and we can also be safe”.

There’s a solid case to be made against Obama’s handling of the Islamic State that doesn’t require Republicans to go nativist.

David Cameron said: “In drawing up the criteria, we will be looking at the people who are the most vulnerable, and there is growing evidence that a few people are vulnerable not only within Syria but within the refugee camps themselves, so Yazidis, Christians and others – particularly children or women at risk of abuse – will all be in our scheme”. Trump and Ted Cruz lead the way in the fearmongering-the former has been rambling on about an ISIS “Trojan Horse” for months; the latter is introducing refugee-banning legislation in the Senate this week-but the establishment candidates are mostly marching in lockstep with their party’s hardliners.

The deathblow to xenophobia against Syrian refugees here was the actual identities of the attackers-virtually all of those involved, aside from the dead owner of the passport, were either French or Belgian.

“Allow me to put the 100,000 number into perspective …” That’s what separates us from them. The United States accepted 750,000 Vietnamese and over 500,000 Cuban refugees …

The religious test for refugees originated, as nasty things often do, in the mouth of Donald Trump, who proclaimed in July – falsely – that Christians fleeing Syria “cannot come into this country” but Muslim refugees from Syria “can come in so easily”.

“Slamming the door in the face of refugees would betray our deepest values”.

“Congressional action to protect American citizens from Islamic State terrorists must acknowledge vulnerabilities in our overseas vetting process as well as our domestic security vulnerabilities”, the statement said.

President Barack Obama has blasted Cruz and other Republican presidential candidates for wanting to keep Syrian refugees from entering the United States, calling it a “potent recruiting tool” for the Islamic State. Translation: We can’t vet many numerous refugees. And while photos of the refugees focus on large populations of young men, the reports say that young men aged 18 through 59 – those most likely to have ties to jihadist activities – make up 22 percent of the population.

The UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming told a press briefing in Geneva this week that the overwhelming majority of the Syrian refugees coming to Europe are fleeing persecution or the life-threatening effects of conflict.

Condemning “in the strongest possible terms the heinous terrorist attacks” in Paris on November 13 and in Ankara on October 10, they said the attacks were “an unacceptable affront to all humanity”. “But a world that rejects Syrians, and especially Muslim refugees, will just feed into their propaganda”. According to the drafters, the bill would increase security of refugee resettlement by achieving taking four steps.