Washington is on alert in the wake of last week’s Paris attacks, the recent ISIS threat to attack the United States capitol.
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Baker and Walsh said they have had no conversations with federal officials since the Paris attacks. The candidates are listed in order of their most recent national polling numbers (for brevity’s sake, we’ve omitted candidates polling below one percent).
The UNHCR essentially decides who merits refugee status based on the parameters laid out in the 1951 Refugee Convention, which states that a refugee is someone who “owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country”.
“We’re looking at all of our options about how do we make sure that something like this doesn’t happen coming here to us with refugees”, Ryan said.
“There’s no way they can vet these people”.
“It’s not that we don’t want to, it’s that we can’t”, Rubio said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”. “It’s that we can’t”. “Because there’s no way to background check someone that’s coming from Syria”. Christian refugees from Syria, however, would be allowed.
“It’s not about Muslims per se, it’s about Muslims who are radicalised”.
“Until we get a handle on where we are, we need to stop”. “There are a lot of Christians in Syria that have no place now”.
So on both sides of the aisle, there are calls for further explanation from federal officials about how the screening process works. Other countries have accepted hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees.
On Monday, Paul announced that he would be introducing a bill to block visas for travelers from “countries with a high risk of terrorism”.
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This is done at the start of the fiscal year but can be revisited mid-year in cases where “an unforeseen emergency refugee situation exists” and the admission of refugees in response to that emergency “is justified by grave humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest”. “The answer to that should be no”, he said. “We should not jeopardize our people”.
Westy Egmont, director of Boston College’s Immigrant Integration Lab, said the law previously withstood state challenges partly because the federal government has worked to equally distribute refugees being resettled. She did, however, say that no further efforts would be warranted. “Certainly, the United States has not led, as I indicated earlier. And I think we have a responsibility to help”. He’s also warned that Syrians would not be able to adapt to America’s non-desert climate. But pressure is mounting following Friday’s brutal attacks in Paris.
A few Republican candidates have said they are wary of accepting Syrian refugees after the attacks and two dozen state governors, mostly Republicans, have vowed not to accept any. And there’s nothing Bobby Jindal or Chris Christie can do about it.
It’s not immediately clear what authority governors have in determining if and where refugees can be resettled.
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“We haven’t even come close to the burden-sharing that we need to be at”, Appleby said. “I think it’s a complete to think you can cut off immigration from country and make this country safe”. “Who do you call and do a background check on them?” “How are we going to care for these folks?”
