Syrian refugee policy takes focus in U.S. 2016 politics

Nor do they have the manpower to keep track of potential violent extremists that would be coming into the country.

“As we learn more about the attacks and who is behind them, the United States should assist the French government in finding those who are accountable and bringing them to justice”, Rubio said in a statement.

Lavinia Limon, the president and chief executive of the U.S. Commission for Refugees and Immigrants, said she is surprised the once-nonpartisan cause of helping refugees fleeing violence has become so politicized. Others have noted, however, that the attackers could be intentionally posing as refugees in order to discourage countries from accepting them.

“We have welcomed refugees, the exhausted huddled masses for centuries”.

Neurosurgeon-turned-politician Ben Carson called for more USA intervention overseas, promoting the use of “covert resources, overt resources, military resources…in an attempt not to contain them but to eliminate them before they eliminate us”.

Mr. Rhodes said the U.S.is “dealing with people who’ve suffered the horrors of war, women and children, orphans”.

He said President Barack Obama should immediately stop taking Syrian refugees into the United States. I mean, think of it. 250,000 people.

King, appearing just after Rhodes, disputed that. “You don’t see a systematic march by [IS] across the terrain”.

Vitter, who has been staunchly fighting illegal immigration and sanctuary cities in the state like New Orleans and Lafayette Parish, took to Facebook yesterday to say that as governor he will shut down sanctuary cities.

World leaders are now confronting IS’s reach far from Iraq and Syria. Intelligence suggests “there’s not a specific, credible threat” to the U.S.at this time, he added.

“I hope the French will invoke Article 5, they should”.

“It’s going to be the 18- to 45-year-old male for the most part”, he said. “Because there’s no way to background check someone that’s coming from Syria”.

The concern in Syria is that we don’t have systems in places on the ground to collect information to vet…You’re talking about a country that is a failed state, that does not have any infrastructure, so to speak.

According to WWL-TV, multiple blogs reported Saturday that 10,000 Syrian refugees had made their way to New Orleans.

Presidential candidate and US Sen.

Friesen said he’s confident in Canada’s process of background checks and health screening of all refugees.

Cruz said Sunday that the landscape has changed since early 2014. And that’s one of the reasons why I said we won’t be able to take more refugees.

Globally, the United States will accept 85,000 refugees in 2016, and 100,000 in 2017, up from 70,000 in each of the previous two years, Robert Jenkins, a U.S. AID official, told a Washington forum on Friday. Those who do this one are terrorists, and we are not. “They’re being beheaded, they’re being executed by both sides”.

“This is a political ideology that has co-opted a religion, and I think it’s more than acceptable to call it for what it is and then organize an effort to destroy it”, he added, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union“. That would be a moral and practical example to the world, a protection to a few of the most vulnerable people in the Middle East, a show of support for the neighbors of Syria – including Jordan, a close US ally – and a way of living up to America’s values.