U.S. State Department figures say about 2,500 Syrians have been admitted since the civil war broke out in the spring of 2011: about half that number are children.
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“The attacks in Paris further illustrate the threat ISIS poses to our national security”.
Much attention has been focused on the security vetting refugees must go through before they come to the United States of America, particularly after it was revealed that one of the terrorists in the Paris attacks entered Europe through a refugee processing center.
Tuesday Governor Bill Walker joined other US governors in a briefing with officials from the White House, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and U.S. State Department to learn about policies and procedures related to admitting Syrian refugees into the United States.
“The state is really just sort of a pass through to the resettlement agencies, to the local governments that are actually providing services to refugees”, Gilman said. Lavinia Limon, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants President. The governor’s press office declined to give any more specifics on the new position, or explain how it differs from officials already at the state’s resettlement program.
Currently, only six Democratic state governors have agreed to house Syrian refugees in their 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. When they expanded into Iraq, he said they were the junior varsity.
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“We have to continue to be vigilant to make sure those coming are not affiliated with a terrorist, but we can do that”, Cruz said in a interview on Fox News that was on his website and was first picked up by the Huffington Post.
Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives, anxious about Islamist attacks following Friday’s killings of 129 people in France, threatened to suspend the Obama administration’s efforts to allow 10,000 more Syrian refugees into the country.
But for a few Central Wisconsin community members, the Syrian refugee crisis brought back familiar memories.
Mr McCaul said legislation was necessary because the President was unlikely to halt the programme.
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The Senate, where Republicans hold a smaller majority than in the House, would also have to approve any legislation on the refugees before it could take effect. Rhetoric there has been less heated than in the House.
