What America Thinks: Are Syrian Refugees a Threat?

“The bill requires the nation’s top security officials – the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of National Intelligence – to certify before admitting any Syrian or Iraqi refugee into the United States that the individual does not represent a security threat”, McCaul said.

Blunt said he does not believe all the Syrian refugees headed for the United States will be screened or vetted for 18 months or two years.

We must remember that the Syrian refugees are fleeing acts of terror similar to what recently happened in France.

Who it applies to: Refugees, who the US government defines as any person outside their country of nationality or residence who is unable or unwilling to return due to fear of persecution.

The ACLU-Indiana said the suspension of the resettlement of Syrian refugees while continuing to allow the resettlement of other refugees violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. In light of the events in Paris, it is critical, however, that the Obama administration consider the safety of Americans first before moving forward with plans to resettle Syrian refugees.

And we can continue to ensure our own security, while doing our share to welcome refugees fleeing violence, looking to America as their beacon of hope and freedom.

In a letter sent Wednesday, Office of Refugee Resettlement Director Robert Carey said he is aware of the concern expressed by some local leaders in allowing Syrian refugees into their states.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to suspend the refugee plan and intensify refugee screening measures before lawmakers left Washington for the Thanksgiving break. We work with nine refugee resettlement agencies in a public-private partnership. Because of our geographic location, the US will never receive the large number of Syrian asylum-seekers or prima facie refugees that European nations are experiencing. Besides this, some Syrian refugees are Christians who obviously have no sympathy for the Islamic state.

“The American people are right to be concerned”, Obama said Sunday. “I want to know where they came from, I want to know where they’re going and why they’re here”. Others have proposed putting all refugees, or indeed all Muslims, in a surveillance database, and forcing all Muslim-Americans to wear badges to identify themselves as such.

Even if Congress somehow resolves the issue with Obama, the refugee question will be loudly debated throughout 2016 as part of the presidential campaigns.

“We can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing [showing] up because we have no record of them”, Comey said October 21. They are referred to what’s called the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.

A spokesman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, which oversees refugee resettlement in the state, said the letter will not change its position.

The WFP has reported that numerous refugees are seeking new places to live precisely because they can’t survive where they are. ISIS has garnered a lot of power and influence and something tells me they would find smarter and easier ways to attack the United States.