A Syrian passport found near the site of one of the Paris attacks indicated that its holder had entered the European Union through Greece, raising concerns that an attacker had entered with a crowd of refugees.
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Young adults, parents, and children gathered in solidarity with one request: welcome refugees.
To support their position, Johnson and Kerry outlined the detailed process used for vetting refugees, including interviews by a United Nations agency, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security.
“What happens when the United States fails to provide leadership in the world is bad things and more disruptive things fill that leadership vacuum”, says Blunt.
Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan agreed, saying the attack on Paris should reinforce the priority to protect USA soil.
” Applicants are then referred to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which conducts more interviews and vetting that includes collecting biometric information such as fingerprints for each applicant ages 14 to 79″.
In Austin, supporters hope that this nation, too, will step up to help with the humanitarian crisis.
“The American people are right to be concerned”, Obama said Sunday. If they had the ability to get past customs in the first place (which is easier than getting through the refugee screening process), it would be infinitely easier for them to just come here on a guest visa because they wouldn’t have to wait 18 months and be face to face with Federal Bureau of Investigation, State Department and DHS employees multiple times.
Governors of more than half the states said this week they did not want to accept Syrian refugees.
“Where does it say in your state’s constitution that you can refuse a person placed by the Federal Government?” he said in the email.
The governors called for an end to plans to resettle as many as 10,000 Syrians in the United States over the next year, in a debate that has mirrored discussions in European countries over whether resettlements endanger security. If you layer it with more and more bureaucracy, that doesn’t actually make us safer because it doesn’t do a better job of screening but simply makes it nearly impossible to process individuals who are coming in, then you’re effectively ending the refugee program for people who desperately need it.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday sued Indiana Governor Mike Pence over his refusal to allow refugees fleeing the almost 5-year-old civil war to resettle in his state.
Lance Trover, director of communications for Rauner, said that the governor spoke with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday. Ted Cruz said the administration’s refugee policy is “a disaster caused by the Obama/Clinton foreign policy”.
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As hundreds of thousands of refugees continue to pour into Europe, Biden told CBS DFW in remarks that have since garnered 1.2 million views, the US can not suddenly decide it is okay to treat them with suspicion and bigotry.
