“If my father were part of a theocratic and political movement like radical Islam that promotes murdering anyone who doesn’t share your extreme faith or forcibly converting them, it would make ideal sense not to let someone in who a embraces political philosophy and theology that says murder the infidels”, Cruz said. As reported by the Gospel Herald, the United States had promised to take about 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next 12 months. “We do not close our hearts to these victims of such violence and somehow start equating the issue of refugees with the issue of terrorism”.
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At a news conference Monday in Turkey, President Obama described as “shameful” the idea of giving religious preferences to refugees, apparently referring to Texas Sen.
In September, the U.S. State Department pledged to absorb 15,000 refugees from Syria, while Secretary of State John Kerry recently said up to 85,000 would be accepted in 2016.
With evidence that one of the Islamist suicide bombers hid among Syrian migrants, the November 13 Paris terror attacks that killed 129 people have raised concern among many American leaders that allowing Syrian refugees into the country would pose a security risk, while simultaneously igniting a debate on whether refugees’ religion should factor into their suitability for admittance. On Tuesday, Bush said he wasn’t discriminating against other refugees.
Bush had told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday that the United States should focus its refugee support on “the Christians that are being slaughtered” by ISIS. If the USA led as we have in previous generations, then there would be no refugee crisis. “There is a lot less opportunity to do screening there when they are already there”. The ostensible aim, according to the bill’s author, Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), was to address the “gaping holes” in the country’s current management of its refugee program.
Bush also expressed empathy for people who are “legitimately concerned about… the competency of the Obama administration as it relates to screening processes”. Such a move would complicate efforts to pass the legislation by a December 11 deadline, since Obama is likely to oppose a bill that would prevent him from executing his refugee plan. “It is a real life, boots-on-the-ground response to the thousands of poorly documented people who are pouring out of Syria”, he said. And there’s nothing new about his abrupt pledge after the Paris attacks to call for more stringent security checks on potential refugees from Syria and Iraq.
So far, the Obama administration has said it has no plans to change its refugee policy. “Christians are suffering, Jews are suffering and other Muslims are suffering”.
He’s been blanketing the airwaves, urging the White House to declare war on ISIS, pushing for more troops in the region, and calling for a no-fly zone in Syria. His “maybe” solution: accept those that are “proven Christians”.
“We need to be working to provide a safe haven for those Christians who are being persecuted and facing genocide…” (One reportedly was a Syrian refugee passport, which a few say might be fake and others claim may have been used by a terrorist to cross into Greece.) While the available information is still developing, it seems likely that the majority, if not all, of the perpetrators in Paris were not refugees or immigrants from Muslim countries.
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“The United States could solve this immigration problem in short order with a handful of personnel and a modest amount of money”, he said.
