Should the US turn away Syrian refugees?

He said he supported not allowing Syrian Muslims into the United States.

If we do allow the refugees and there are terrorists in the midst, the next question should be: Whom should we hold accountable?

“We’re talking to the media nonstop”. They have no legal authority to ban them, that is federal jurisdiction, but there is a political campaign underway (isn’t there always?) and demagoguery trumps truth every time. “All refugees, including Syrians, may only be admitted (to) the United States after USCIS receives all the security checks run by the intelligence and law enforcement communities and all issues are resolved”. We must never forget the USA internment camps during World War II, when thousands of Japanese Americans were imprisoned for no other reason than their country of origin.

The letter said that applicants for refugee admission “are screened more carefully than any other type of traveler to the United States”.

This long process means that the 10,000 Syrian refugees that President Barack Obama has committed to resettle in 2016 have likely been in process for years.

The process often takes one to three years to complete and includes biometric testing and intensive overseas interviews with Department of Homeland Security experts.

Just over 2,100 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the US since January 1, 2012, according to the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.

These latest developments on Capitol Hill have the nonprofits particularly anxious.

If the Paris attacks have revealed a vulnerability in the USA visa system, it is the fact that European countries with some 4,500 of their citizens who have gone to fight in Syria often do not know who these fighters are or when they have returned to Europe. Now, they wait in unstable circumstances for a glimmer of hope. A widely circulated photo of a dead Syrian toddler, washed up on a Turkish beach, tugged at many American hearts.

“A lot of them… they are turning to fakes and there’s a very booming market for fakes among refugees”, Karas said. Reports have revealed that the decision to curb Syrian migrants came after multiple attacks took place in Paris on November 13. No Syrian refugees have settled in Alabama since the current fiscal year began in October. “Welcoming the world’s vulnerable who seek the safety of America is not new to us. They have no family here, how are we gonna care for these folks?”

Six of the nine nonprofits that work with the program are faith-based, and guided by the biblical injunction to welcome the stranger.

The legislation will delay the flow of the refugees into the United States, but immigration will continue once the security measures are implemented. Bush told CBS This Morning that USA should only grant asylum status to Syrian Christians. Remember how many Syrian refugees Obama wants to admit?

To turn them away and say there is no way you can ever get here would play right into the terrorists’ hands.

To support their position, Johnson and Kerry outlined the detailed process used for vetting refugees, including interviews by a United Nations agency, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security. “This program is locked and tight”. About 62 percent of them are men, according to the United Nations, not 77 percent, as Cruz said.

Testifying before Congress last month, FBI Director James Comey put it most starkly: “If someone has not made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interests reflected in our databases, we can query our databases until the cows come home but nothing will show up because we have no record of that person”.

Church leaders are trying to counter this “can’t be too careful” approach with the Bible, which repeatedly exhorts: “Do not be afraid”. “The state’s role is not to be the church”, Byers said.