The bill now heads to the Senate, where its fate is uncertain, but it sets up a clash with President Barack Obama, who has threatened to veto the bill and has criticized Republicans for “hysteria” and falling short of their humanitarian duty to take in the oppressed.
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The 289-to-137 vote came in the aftermath of the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 129 people. We boarded a pickup truck with 20 other Syrian families and were dropped off in the middle of the night in the desert, from where we trekked many hours through the desert and mountains to a refugee camp.
Just over 2,100 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the US since January 1, 2012, according to the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
Weber said it is important to stress that any such plan must include a means of ensuring that terrorist infiltrators can not get into the country along with those who are legitimately seeking asylum.
“Congress must do everything in its power to protect our nation’s security, and we must have the strongest screening protocol in the world”, Lujan Grisham said.
Mahmoud said he doubts that terrorists could slip in as refugees. Joining almost all Republicans were 47 Democrats in backing the bill. Officials told Democrats in the meeting the already one and a half to two year process of admission could be doubled if the bill becomes law. Are the criticisms of the White House political or are they justified?
NY Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney explained to reporters why he and other Democrats supporting the bill represented a simple improvement to the process.
Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham each directly addressed the bill they voted against. “Do whatever works for you, for your district, ‘” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who opposed the legislation, told journalists.
Rep. Farley calls that fiction.
The most severe of the Republican proposals would suspend all US government support for resettling refugees in the USA and would aim to guard against certain refugees entering the USA through the southern border who are suspected of ties to terrorism, designating them “special interest aliens”. Additionally, it requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation director, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence to unanimously agree that each refugee poses no security threat to the United States and certify that before Congress. He is the director of migration and refugee policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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I n the wake of the Paris attacks, the US House of Representatives has voted to further tighten screening procedures on refugees from Syria. The administration will have to be more savvy, and more substantive, if it wants to continue to welcome Syrian refugees.
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Regrouping from an embarrassing defeat in the House, the White House tried to change the subject away from its Syrian refugee program on Friday, instead calling for changes that could prohibit a few people from bypassing the traditional visa system to enter the American homeland.
