TRUTH: The U.S.is set to welcome 70,000 refugees this fiscal year.
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The conference call was a chance for governors to speak with officials from the White House and the departments of Homeland Security, State, and Health and Human Services.
The primer explains the Refugee Act of 1980, which was created primarily to deal with the flood of refugees from Russian Federation and Southeast Asia at that time.
The agencies also work with state and local officials so refugees can obtain whatever social services they need.
Syrian refugees go through additional forms of screening, and options are being considered to enhance those evaluations, Henshaw said.
Separately, Sandy Khabbazeh, 26, a refugee who fled Aleppo in September 2014 and now lives in Oakland, New Jersey, described the current USA vetting process for refugees as extensive. Wyoming does not have a refugee resettlement program. “Indeed, applicants for refugee admission are screened more carefully than any other type of traveler to the United States”.
France, a country that just suffered a bad and terrifying ISIS attack, has not closed its borders to Syrian refugees and continues to shelter them and assist in finding permanent areas to relocate.
According to a news report by Politico, this anti-refugee bill could halt visas for Iraqi translators, who worked with the US military in Iraq. This bill rests on the faulty assumption that the European refugee screening process is similar to the United States screening process, which is entirely inaccurate. The U.S. State Department prioritizes the highest-risk and most-vulnerable groups of people – children, the elderly, and victims of torture or abuse. 31 governors have refused to allow refugees into their states.
This includes multiple interviews with the refugee family.
If we reject them on the remote possibility that they’ll become “terrorists in our midst”, have we not allowed fear, rather than reason, to set national policy? From auto bombings in Beirut to the downing of a commercial airliner over the Sinai Peninsula and the coordinated attacks in Paris, it’s obvious that ISIS is at war with civilization. Over the course of the 18th and 19th of November, six Syrians with false Greek passports were arrested in Honduras. The person holding it had formally applied for asylum.
CNN recently reported the following from a few of the Republican presidential candidates. The source noted the passport was either stolen or fabricated. “Governors don’t have the right to restrict people from coming into their state”. He is among more than 30 governors, nearly all Republican, who have said their states will not accept Syrian refugees, citing security concerns.
President Barack Obama, a member of the Democratic Party, plans to accept 10,000 refugees from Syria over the next year.
Yet the ties to the conflict in Syria are clear.
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“We look at the cultural, religious resources, interpreters, faith based organizations…we evaluate employment, housing – if it is affordable – and if the community is able and willing and welcoming of this refugee”, Alba said.
