Christie added that Obama’s “timidity” on the world stage is to blame for the crisis.
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“They are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America”.
A Bloomberg Politics poll released Wednesday found that 53% of American adults don’t want Syrian refugees resettled in the US, while 28% say the Obama administration should proceed with its plan to accept 10,000 refugees next year without religious screening, and 11% say only Christians from Syria should be allowed in. “The answer is no”, Huckabee said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday.
In a statement assuring a veto, the White House said the GOP bill would not improve Americans’ security. This comes as it was discovered that one of the terrorists involved in the attack may have been posing as a refugee.
Amid the uncertainty, Ryan confronted an unexpected foreign policy test in his third week on the job. Ahead of a classified briefing Tuesday evening for lawmakers he assembled a task force of committee chairmen to bring refugee legislation to the floor as soon as this week.
McConnell echoed that call, remarking, “It’s pretty clear how the American people feel about this”.
Christie and other Republican candidates have called for the USA and its allies to establish a safe zone in Syria for refugees instead of allowing them into the US for fear that terrorists could infiltrate their ranks.
The House Republican proposal would halt the program permitting refugees fleeing war in Iraq and Syria to enter the United States until the Secretary of Homeland Security signs off that those applying to come in do not have ties to terrorism. It includes 628 adults – including 230 Republicans and 245 Democrats.
Jeb Bush endorsed the idea of a pause in accepting Syrians while officials determine how best to evaluate them. He said that refugees “don’t normally come with embedded terrorists in their midst, and that’s the challenge”. A few Democrats and refugee advocates likened the GOP reaction to the USA government turning away Jews fleeing Nazi Germany and placing Japanese in internment camps during World War II. “And let us maintain America’s commitment to being a beacon of hope”. Among Republicans, it was 64 percent to 27 percent in favor of sending troops; among Democrats, it was 59 percent to 31 percent against sending them.
House Democratic aides said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., had a forceful exchange with Johnson, saying that opposition to the bill would be a bad vote for Democrats that could cost them seats in next year’s elections.
‘And the President believes that those – that the national security of the country, that the values of the country are what should guide our decisions – not panic, not fear, and not, frankly, cheap political calculations, ‘ he said.
The US has admitted only about 2,500 Syrians since the civil war erupted in that country in the spring of 2011, a tiny fraction of the millions who have sought refuge in neighboring countries and Europe. The overall pool is nearly evenly split between males and females.
Christie’s fellow Republican, Rep. Pete King, who opposes allowing Syrian refugees into the country because they can’t be adequately vetted, was asked on MSNBC on Tuesday morning about Christie’s position on orphans.
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The current acceptance rate for Syrians is around 50 percent.
