“We don’t need any refugees until we can figure out a way to determine they are not terrorists”.
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Council members are expected to sign a letter in support of suspending the program to send to Gov. Haley.
“The promises of the Obama administration that it has vetted these individuals probably mirrored those given by the European Union to Parisians – and see where we are now”, Bryant wrote.
Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler, R-Gaffney, said he has asked Haley to “just say no” to refugees. By federal definition, homes don’t have even “minor damage” unless at least a foot of water was inside, according to the SC Emergency Management Division.
A few also are interpreters who assisted the United States military “and saved our American lives and so in turn we saved theirs”.
“The global Islamic terrorist organization the Islamic State has openly bragged that they have an ongoing operation to insert trained terrorists into Western democracies by mixing them with the horde of refugees coming out of the war-torn Middle East and North Africa”, Sen. Almost 85 percent of them are Christians.
In Governor Haley’s letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, sent late Monday afternoon, Haley says she has concerns with the vetting process of refugees from conflict-zones, and specifically cites refugees exiting Syria.
Peeler said he stands by his request to oppose all refugees, saying SC can’t take any chances on an “oops moment” in vetting asylum seekers.
“I don’t trust a bureaucrat at this point”, he told The Associated Press.
McCrory said he cares for the refugees but added “what worries me is that a few of these people could be ISIS”.
In the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris, several senators and representatives in the Upstate called on Haley to stop a refugee resettlement program that is already underway.
U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy of Spartanburg, chairman of the House Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, announced plans to examine the Syrian refugee crisis in a hearing on Thursday.
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“These are people who have protected our troops, these are people who have been persecuted for being Christian… these are people who we took in because they were unsafe where they were”, Haley said.
