Karen Jacobsen, the director of the Refugee and Forced Migration Program at Tufts University noted that this intensive vetting process as well as U.S law on refugees and asylum seekers “makes it hard to quickly admit large numbers of refugees”. I would imagine if a moratorium, this idea of a moratorium is put on the floor of congress it would likely pass. Reporter: Yeah and you’re starting to see a few democrats including shuck Schumer very influential saying the idea of a pause is not a bad one. This is because the refugees are Syrian. And it’s not that old prejudices die hard.
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He reminded, “30 of those 31 governors who are saying they don’t want the Syrian refugees in their states are Republicans”. For Syrian refugees, it takes two years on average.
In a follow-up report, Natalie Morales repeated the President’s attack: “Speaking in the Philippines today, the President said that keeping out orphans or only admitting Christians, as a few have suggested, would go against American values”. Aylan’s 5-year-old brother and four other children also drowned.
These Christians-many who oppose allowing refugees into the United States-do not cite the Bible’s many commands to practice hospitality.
Cruz’s reasoning, it seems, is that we do not know whether or not the “tens of thousands” of Muslim refugees coming in from Syria have ties with ISIS or a few other Islamic extremist group; therefore, he feels the best bet is to not let them in.
Ironically, New Jersey may be the most diverse state in America.
ABC News’ Jon Karl asked Cruz, the Republican presidential candidate, if he would bar Muslims but permit Christians to enter the U.S. According to The Washington Post, Cruz said, “We need to be working to provide a safe haven for those Christians who are being persecuted and facing genocide, and at the same time we shouldn’t be letting terrorists into America”.
In an interview with Steven Crowder, on his website Louder with Crowder, Cruz blasted the president for accusing Republican candidates of political posturing when it comes to the Syrian refugee crisis.
On Monday, Obama appeared to criticise Bush and another presidential candidate, Sen. What this means is that the vast majority of refugees who have been and are being considered by the United States do not fit what someone might consider a suspicious demographic profile. Let’s help Muslim refugees from Syria find a home in one of them.
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We are not well served when, in response to a terrorist attack, we descend into fear and panic, Obama said. Moreover, he is a Cuban American who appeals to the white nationalists, nativists and xenophobes in the GOP. If ISIS overruns Assad, do we expedite the refugee process either in the USA or Europe for Alawites? We are constantly told by the president that Islam is a religion of peace; if we take him at his word, this means that the 57 Muslim nations are all potential havens of peace, stability and tranquility. “We can and must do both”. “Of the 2,184 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far, only 53 are Christians while 2,098 are Muslim“. And opposition to refugees is not an exclusively Republican phenomenon. What of those people, who are in the midst of a full-on genocidal offensive, a situation a somewhat more severe than persecution?
