“The acts of terror committed over the weekend are a tragic reminder to the world that evil exists and takes the form of terrorists who seek to destroy the basic freedoms we will always fight to preserve”, Gov. Bentley said Sunday.
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Robert Bentley, governor of the USA state, made the declaration following the terrorist atrocities in Paris as it emerged one of the attackers may have posed as a Syrian refugee to enter Europe through Greece.
The U.S. State Department approved a refugee processing center in Mobile, though Alabama has not yet processed any refugees, according to the statement provided by the governor’s office. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is working with federal agencies to monitor possible threats. Syrian refugees will not be admitted to Alabama according to Gov. Bentley. The governor did not elaborate on how he planned to block the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis). Among other leaders, U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron hold a minute of silence for the victims of Friday’s Paris attacks prior to a session of the G-20 summit, in Antalya, Turk…
In his statement, Bentley said Friday’s attacks in Paris prompted him to oppose any relocation of Syrian refugees in Alabama. Marco Rubio suggested that even the concept of finding a foreign fighter amid Syrian refugees is impossible. “You can’t pick up the phone and call Syria”. “There’s a very careful vetting process that includes our intelligence community, our national Counterterrorism Center [and] the Department of Homeland Security, so we can make sure that we’re carefully screening anybody who comes to the United States”.
An worldwide manhunt is continuing for a suspect linked to the Paris attacks as the United Kingdom prepared to recruit nearly 2,000 more spies to counter the Islamic State (ISIS) threat.
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“We’re also dealing with people who’ve suffered the horrors of war – women and children, orphans”, Rhodes said. “We need to sort out how to focus on that terrorists that we need to keep out of the country but I think we do need to do our part to take those refugees who are in need”.
