“On the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, there are words we know so well: “Give me your exhausted, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.’ That’s the spirit that makes America”, Obama said”. LUPICA: OBAMA SHOULD LEAD, NOT WHINE, IN FIGHT AGAINST ISIS Obama stated he’s been inundated by letters & emails from Americans providing to take Syrians fleeing ISIS in to their homes.
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In three USA opinion polls published by Bloomberg, NBC News and the Washington Post/ABC News this month, 53 to 56 percent of respondents said no more Syrian refugees should enter.
In typical Thanksgiving Day addresses, presidents thank USA troops, praise the country and offer encouraging words about generosity and the push for justice and equality.
Yang said the number of Syrian refugees that the Obama administration wants to welcome in fiscal year 2016 – 10,000 – is a “drop in the bucket” compared to the millions of Syrian refugees absorbed by Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.
Anyway, it’s not as easy immigrating to the United States as it was it in the 17th century.
Among them, writes CIS fellow Dan Cadman, is an ability of jihadists to exploit Syria’s chaos to obtain legitimate Syrian documents, forge them and present the forgeries to US officers who would have “no one…”
The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement warned states that it may pull their funding if they refuse to cooperate.
The letter was in response to the announcement made by over 24 governors, majority Republicans, who said that they would reject efforts to resettle refugees coming from Syria in their states due to the November 13 incident in Paris and due to fear that the resettlement could be exploited in order for militant groups to enter the U.S.
“I hope that you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving, surrounded by loved ones and full of joy and gratitude”, he said.
Obama’s claims that he has the ability to run “robust” security screenings on Syrian refugees was directly contradicted in testimony by FBI Director James Comey in October, when he told a House committee that checking refugees against a database won’t do anything if the US doesn’t have any data on these refugees.
The poll showed that most Americans are also against Obama’s suggestion that there should be no religious test for refugees, with only 28 percent of respondents in favor of such a plan.
One of the Vermont Republicans seeking his party’s nomination for governor next year said he has become more comfortable with the vetting of Syrian refugees after learning more about how refugees are screened before they are brought to the United States.
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Obama has promised to veto the bill in the unlikely event it manages to pass in the Senate.
