“We could use our funds more wisely in helping to resettle and provide security for migrants and refugee camps in Syria and the Middle East…as opposed to using scarce state dollars to expand our social safety net here”, he said.
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Jack Dalrymple joined fellow Republican Govs. Overall, 44% said troops should be sent there while 45% said they should not be sent.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in Paris on Friday that left 129 people dead and hundreds wounded.
But the difference between Chicago and Paris, the United States and France or Belgium, is that the open borders of Europe make it much more hard to screen refugees for terrorists, whereas the system we have in place requires a long and tedious vetting process before any refugee is allowed in.
Republicans said the chairmen of national security-focused committees were working on legislation dealing with Syrian refugees that the House could vote on as early as Thursday, though it was not clear exactly what the legislation would involve.
The federal government controls resettlement programs, however, and state authorities have no authority to bar refugees from moving to their jurisdictions.
Since the incidents in Paris, 27 USA governors have declared their opposition to settling Syrian refugees in their states.
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley was the first state leader to make a statement refusing to accept Syrian refugees into his state.
“I want to protect the people of Minnesota every bit that the governors of those states want to protect the people of their state”, Dayton said.
And in so doing, they are promoting the false notion that all Muslims are suspect, that anyone who subscribes to their faith is a potential terrorist.
Philippine officials have said there has been no intelligence suggesting a major threat to the Manila summit, which will be attended by leaders and representatives from the APEC’s 21 member nations. “We don’t have the treatment and support for people that have experienced torture”, Aquino said. The house will meet to consider legislation related to Syrian refugees. Dayton said he understands that and his aides have contacted the federal government to get that assurance.
The current refugee program, along with President Barack Obama’s plan to add 10,000 more Syrian refugees this year, would likely come to a stop while the new protocol is established.
Still, President Obama has insisted that the US will continue to accept the refugees, slamming Republicans for suggesting that they pose a security threat.
“The prudent, the responsible thing is to take a pause in this particular aspect of this refugee program in order to verify that terrorists are not trying to infiltrate the refugee population”, Ryan told reporters on Capitol Hill.
Speaking in the Philippines capital on Wednesday, Mr Obama accused conservatives of being scared of “three-year-old orphans”.
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The refugee issue has become a political football in the race for the White House.
