Rick Santorum: Accepting Christian refugees from Syria into the United States is exactly

Candidates for president such as Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush have argued, correctly in my view, that refugee resettlement should make admitting Christians our top priority. And when I hear folks say that, well, maybe we should just admit the Christians but not the Muslims; when I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which a person who’s fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted, when a few of those folks themselves come from families who benefitted from protection when they were fleeing political persecution – that’s shameful.

“That’s not American. That’s not who we are”, Obama said.

While McCain said he agrees refugee admissions should be paused until law enforcement and intelligence officials can sign off on the vetting process, he said more emphasis should be placed on President Obama’s insistence that his strategy against ISIS is working.

Chris Seiple, a longtime advocate on worldwide religious freedom who has advised the State Department, said while Muslims have suffered statistically far more from the Islamic State because they are the majority, religious minorities – Christians and Yazidis in particular – are getting disproportionately hit because they are so small. Obama also said he was “proud” when former President George W. Bush insisted after the September 11 attacks that the US was not at war with Islam.

As Karl pressed on to confirm Cruz’s positions, the Senator responded that Christians are facing their own form of persecution by ISIS that makes them “qualitatively different”, from fleeing Muslims.

He added: “We need to show complete solidarity with them”.

“For a refugee, from the time they flee to until they’re in a permanent situation is 17 years”, said Soerens.

“So you’re saying no Muslims, only Christians?”

Critics of President Barack Obama’s plan to accept thousands of the refugees have been raising the possibility of the Islamic State infiltrating the refugee population and carrying out another attack in the US.

On Wednesday, presidential candidate Sen.

“Donald Trump is saber-rattling about shutting down mosques in this country, which, as somebody who works every day on religious liberty, I’m astounded that we could have a presidential candidate of either party speaking in such a way”, Moore said.

Placing a hold on the flow of refugees into the United States also isn’t a partisan issue.

“I don’t [agree]”, he said. “And I think our focus ought to be on the Christians who have no place in Syria anymore”.

The U.S. and United Kingdom governments relocate refugees through UNHCR camps.

“Up until this past weekend, we even had politicians reaching out to say, ‘How can we resettle refugees?’ Members of both parties”.

Cruz has come out in support of Syrian Christians being permitted to seek asylum in the United States.

“We’ve been in constant conversations with folks on the Hill who have questions about security screenings”.

Monday, as Republican governors all across the country boldly declared that Syrian refugees would not be welcome in their state, I don’t see or hear any compassion in their words.