“We should have greater confidence in our intelligence services”. “They shouldn’t put this in any relation to what we are now experiencing in the area of terrorism”.
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Another suspect in the Paris attacks that left 129 people dead may have entered Europe by the same route, Toskas said, according to Balkan Insight.
Several news outlets reported over the weekend that one Paris attacker had moved through Greece on his way to France as a refugee.
A spokeswoman for the Croatian Interior Ministry said the man had been registered in the Opatovac refugee camp on October 8, and from there crossed into Hungary and then Austria. The federal government reimburses states for housing, education and other costs, she said. But uneasiness about the vetting process and fear of a similar attack in the USA is growing, especially on Capitol Hill.
The head of the Council on American Islamic Relations said Syrian refugees have been through enough already. That’s about 70 people. “It was even said that they were behind the sandstorm in Jordan”.
“This is why I am joining with other governors across the country in opposing the resettlement of Syrian nationals until we can better determine the full extent of any risks to our citizens”.
U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts, a Republican who represents most of Lancaster County in the House, on Monday co-sponsored a bill that would make Christian and Yazidi refugees a priority.
The identification numbers and photo on the passport indicate that it may not be legitimate, a US intelligence official told CBS News. The fact of the matter is this is an ongoing crisis taking place where hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake.
An arrogant and aggressive US President Barack Hussein Obama defended his anti-ISIS strategy while answering tough questions from an global press corps in Turkey Monday triggered a Twitter storm, with a slew of politicians, pundits and social media followers condemning the remarks as stunningly off-base.
Duckworth, who is running in the Democratic primary to challenge U.S. Sen.
He noted that the “big silent majority” in Europe “want to be compassionate to refugees and asylum-seekers, but their support for asylum and immigration is fragile”, he said.
“ISIS is a real threat”.
“We want to do everything we can to prevent it from happening here”, said. It is not Syrians, or Iraqis, or any Middle Easterner. “Our nations can welcome refugees who are desperately seeking safety and ensure our own security. We can and must do both”.
Director Comey has also previously acknowledged that despite a large pool of data on Iraqi refugees, our past program for admitting refugees from Iraq inadvertently allowed into our country “a number of people who were of serious concern, including two that were charged when we found their fingerprints on improvised explosive devices from Iraq”. While not naming any of the Republican presidential candidates specifically, he noted a few political leaders have benefited from America’s willingness to accept refugees.
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Islamic State has frequently said one of its goals is to stop refugees from fleeing Syria by any means possible, and tells refugees they are committing “a major unsafe sin” by attempting to flee the war and entering countries where they will be assimilated or integrated into “Christianity, atheism or liberalism”. That’s not American. That’s not who we are.
