All four representatives are Republicans, as is Boozman.
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“The most glaring weakness of all is that this administration does not have a strategy to combat this risky threat”, she said.
Weber said it is important to stress that any such plan must include a means of ensuring that terrorist infiltrators can not get into the country along with those who are legitimately seeking asylum.
This remark comes after the terrorist attack last Friday in Paris.
“Congress must do everything in its power to protect our nation’s security, and we must have the strongest screening protocol in the world”, Lujan Grisham said.
Obama administration officials have been lobbying Democrats to oppose the measure, saying there is a vigorous 18-month to 24-month vetting process for eligible refugees. To slam the door in their faces – to decide not to help when we know that we can help – would be a betrayal of our values.
While he’s glad Aguilar “is following the lead of conservative-minded Americans who are concerned about terrorism”, the congressman’s vote is a political ploy that doesn’t mask his weakness on national security, Chabot said.
He faulted the legislation for only covering aliens from Iraq and Syria, when there are other nations harboring terrorists and others who wish America harm. Syria is Obama’s worst foreign policy failure – but it’s good to see him push back at the hysteria about Syrian refugees. If implemented, it will create a hopeless logistical bottleneck trapping refugees in hellish camps as they wait in vain for approval from the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and the director of national intelligence.
Vallejo says she understands why the House is trying to halt the program until national security agencies can determine whether or not those fleeing for safety pose a security threat. The omnibus is due by December the 11 so that’s a funding bill using the power of the purse that congress has to deny funding to be used to prosecute the Syrian refugee issue by the department of state until we get a better handle on this so we can deny funding, that’s step two.
In all, 47 House Democrats voted for the bill. Arriving to the United States is a hard task.
“The added level of security does not diminish our commitment to helping the innocent men, women and children fleeing the grips of Islamic State militants or the Assad regime, rather it strengthens our defense and will enable us to move forward through a safer and more secure process to relocate refugees”. As an expat living far away from my family, my home, and the state in which I grew up, rhetoric like this makes me feel physically sick – I have been beaten up by this all week. Still, advocacy groups warned refugees could be left to languish while the new changes are put into place, and the Catholic bishops and others announced their opposition.
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For refugees already living in the US, it can be a struggle. “We are giving our foes an alternative means of putting their boots on the ground to perform insidious war crimes anywhere and anytime right here in the U.S. The least we can do is to make sure we are aware of the awful risks we take by allowing the potential for another 911”.
