Sen. Ted Cruz defended his call to allow only Syrian Christian refugees into the United States, saying it wouldn’t be hard to screen for religion.
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“Indeed just yesterday, President Obama attacked me directly and called me Un-American”. “They’re being beheaded, they’re being executed by both sides”.
Even then, a refugee who qualifies for this narrow exception can only be admitted if he or she has undergone the highest available level of security screening, including assessments by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Terrorist Screening Center and the National Counterterrorism Center; the refugee has been subjected to full multi-modal biometrics; and perhaps most importantly, the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Homeland Security, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Director of National Intelligence all certify that the refugee is not a national security threat.
Syrian refugees fleeing this conflict are already an enemy of ISIS, as they’ve declared themselves traitors to the caliphate, as Zack Beauchamp has noted. President Obama is treating efforts to address this ongoing discrimination as if it, and not the original policy, is based in bias.
(One reportedly was a Syrian refugee passport, which a few say might be fake and others claim may have been used by a terrorist to cross into Greece.) While the available information is still developing, it seems likely that the majority, if not all, of the perpetrators in Paris were not refugees or immigrants from Muslim countries. Obviously, there are many valid arguments in favor of embracing Syrian refugees, not least of which that they’re running from a situation Obama himself created by meddling in a Middle Eastern civil war. “That’s not American. That’s not who we are”.
“The answer to this is not to ban people from coming”, Bush told Bloomberg Television’s With All Due Respect. Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon aren’t taking in Muslim refugees out of a few great commitment to common humanity.
Ted Cruz challenged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to a debate on Syrian refugees and said that if the president is going to insult him, he should do it to his face. “There are no Christian terrorists in the Middle East, they’re persecuted”.
Yes, we’re sure that a single candidate in the wide-open Republican field will be able to land a televised debate with the president.
Let us also not forget that in addition to Dr. Tiller, seven other people have died at the hands of pro-life terrorists.
“In the same way that the Muslim community has an obligation not to in any way excuse anti-Western or anti-Christian sentiment, we have the same obligation as Christians”, Obama said.
Christian extremism is not limited to the United States. “We accepted 200,000 Soviet Jews … we’ve assimilated them and we can do it again”, Durbin said in a floor speech last month.
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Despite the opposition of the governors, Stephen Legomsky, a Washington University of St. Louis law professor and former chief counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Obama administration, said they have no “constitutional power” to reject the refugees. And when I hear folks say that, well, maybe we should just admit the Christians but not the Muslims…That’s not American. And while most – but not all – of the Syrian refugees so far are Muslim, this makes sense because “it’s a mostly Muslim country and most of the victims are Muslim”.
