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House passes bill to block Syrian refugees, require more vetting

The vice president defended the position of the US government, which is committed to opening its doors to 10,000 Syrian refugees throughout the coming year, despite the criticism of several Republican presidential hopefuls and the bill promoted by the House of Representatives to tighten restrictions on their entering the country. “It’s clear where the American people are, and that’s what we’re going to need, and then of course we need a veto-proof majority”.

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“Gov. Baker believes that MA has a role in welcoming refugees into the commonwealth and in the wake of recent, awful tragedies overseas is working to ensure the public’s safety and security despite the limited role state governments play in the process”, spokeswoman Elizabeth Guyton said Friday in a statement. “And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing that will show up because we have no record of them”.

Current rules require refugees to be screened by the Department of Homeland Security.

Florida’s Republican Rep. Ted Yoho is proposing a bill to let governors block Syrian refugees from resettling in their states. I introduced the bill immediately last Monday because of reports that at least one of the terrorists in Paris entered Europe as a Syrian refugee.

That bill has been assigned to the House Judiciary Committee.

On Thursday, Crawford explained why he voted for the American SAFE Act.

Secretary of State John Kerry announced in September that the United States will increase the number of refugees admitted to the US from across the world from 70,000 to 85,000 in 2016 and up to 100,000 in 2017.

The Senate is expected to take up the measure after Thanksgiving.

The House bill would increase the FBI’s role by charging it with conducting a “thorough background investigation” on each refugee. But things could easily change with the massive exodus taking place. “He underestimated ISIS and is really is being somewhat flippant in his answers regarding questions being posed concerning security”. They argued that the bill’s new requirements would effectively shut down the USA refugee resettlement program for Syrians.

The vote has proved divisive, with the Huffington Post reporting the existing checks on Middle Eastern refugees are already “intensive”, with an 18-24 month process that includes biometric and biographic tests, fingerprinting, interviews and other vetting procedures by US security agencies.

“Refugees face the most rigorous screening of anyone who comes to the United States”, Biden continued. Tom Cotton, a Republican, called for a “temporary halt” to the program relocating Syrian refugees to the USA, though he didn’t take a stand on the American SAFE Act.

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So, President Obama’s former Ebola Czar (remember that little period of mass hysteria?) recently laid out a path to combat a few of the rampant misinformation about Syrian refugees using best practices from his time quelling Ebola fears.

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