He said national security should be balanced against the country’s character.
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This message from the people is not one of one callousness, but of common sense, said Michael Needham of the conservative advocacy group Heritage Action.
Those are the principles on which America was founded and that are forever inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
“Defeating terrorism should not mean slamming the door in the faces of those fleeing the terrorists”, says Jerrold Lewis Nadler, US Representative for New York’s 10th congressional district. Republican presidential candidates are already calling for ground troops.
After those interviews, U.S. Customs and Border Protection receives a manifest of all refugees who are approved to go to the United States, and after that the Department of State and Department of Health and Human Services work to determine where to send the refugee to, transport the refugee and work with the refugee to make him or her self-sufficient.
In the United States of America, we are free to think for ourselves. Having family in a country accepting refugees makes it more likely you will go to a certain country.
“We’re not going to change what we’re doing”. The Obama administration told reporters this week that roughly half of all Syrian refugees admitted to date have been children.
A day after the Paris attacks, Hillary Clinton was asked at the Democratic primary debate in Iowa about taking in Syrian refugees.
“Is this what he wants to see happen to children?”
States such as Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas are now refusing to accept Syrian refugees for resettlement. “Islamic militants play a prominent role in the Syrian rebel forces, and security officials worry that al-Qaida could use this as an opportunity to infiltrate the U.S”.
He also said the country should be prepared to suspend a few civil liberties.
His rival Donald Trump made several belligerent remarks about Muslims and Syrian refugees in the wake of the attacks, including expressing support for registering US Muslims in a database.
THEN: On September 9, McCain displayed a photo of Aylan on the Senate floor, urging stronger leadership from Obama on Syria. “But what should haunt us even more than the horror unfolding before our eyes is the thought that the United States will continue to do nothing meaningful about it”.
The Obama administration is assuring governors that refugees who come to the United States in its resettlement program undergo a “rigorous security vetting process”, particularly if they are fleeing from Syria. It’s not like the refugees that get on a boat and get to Greece or Europe.
NOW: On Thursday, Clinton said Americans need to rise above personal fear to combat the threat of jihadism worldwide.
“We call it warehousing”, said Limón.
The World-Herald obtained a copy of that letter, in which the two secretaries noted that additional precautions have been added for the screenings of Syrian refugees and that they continually evaluate whether precautions should be further enhanced.
President Obama has stood by his plan to increase the number of Syrian refugees allowed in from about 1,700 in the past fiscal year to 10,000 in the next.
It is clear, we need to press the pause button on the Syria refugee process.
Such a discussion might not succeed in persuading those governors who have been most adamant about barring the refugees.
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“This underscores the point that the strengthening of the refugee vetting process is an ongoing one”, he said.
