“As the federal elected body that exercises oversight and authorizes federal spending, please take any action available through the powers of the United States Congress to prevent federal allocations toward the relocation of Syrian refugees without extensive examination into how this would affect our homeland security”, the letter says. “He said, ‘This is a real passport'”. It is a reversal for a governor who said he was working with the US government to resettle Syrian refugees after a photo of a drowned Syrian toddler on a beach sparked an worldwide uproar.
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Speaking on public television, Waszczykowski, who takes office today, also said through this method, the refugees could be gainfully employed, according to Radio Poland.
Tory MP Nigel Evans asked Mr Morrison: “Clearly following the atrocities that have happened recently in Paris, there have been news stories that a passport was found of somebody who was one of these terrorists hiding amongst the Syrian refugees”.
“President Obama staying the course on our ISIS strategy is the definition of insanity”.
Paul Morrison, director of the UK Syrian resettlement programme, said British methods were more thorough than in France because refugees are plucked directly from camps in Syria. “We have been fiercely criticized by those who claim this approach is not humane”, Orbán recalled. “To close the borders in order to stop illegal migration, or to put at risk the lives of innocent European citizens?”, he wondered.
“That’s what they’re fleeing”, he said. “At the same time, we have to recognize there’s tragic victims of this conflict, there are women, and children, orphans of this war and I think we need to do our part, along with our allies, to provide them a safe haven”.
It was reported that one of the Paris terrorists Friday embedded himself with Syrian immigrants.
The country’s prime minister-designate Beata Szydlo has referred to the European Union refugee quota deal as “blackmail”.
His appointment comes after the right-wing Law and Justice Party won a surprise majority in the country’s parliament the Sejm on 25 October. During the campaign, party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski warned that migrants are carrying “parasites and protozoa” and other diseases that could harm native Europeans. Critics likened those words to the kind of language Adolf Hitler used against the Jews.
Since Friday, members of the government have indicated that they will treat asylum seekers as possible security threats, possibly not fulfilling the agreement to accept 7,000.
“As president, my first priority is the safety of the American people, and that’s why even as we accept more refugees, including Syrians, we do so only after subjecting them to rigorous screening and security checks”, he said during a press conference Monday after the G-20 summit in Turkey.
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“Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have come to Europe recently”. Waszczykowski said in Warsaw.
