The reason: Syrians have an exceptionally high acceptance rate as refugees in countries such as Germany, which offers generous benefits and housing to those genuinely fleeing war and persecution. That passport led authorities to believe he had entered the country as a refugee from Syria.
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GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump suggested in a MSNBC interview that he would “strongly consider” closing a few mosques if elected.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker firmly defended on Sunday the EU’s hotly-contested plan to redistribute refugees across Europe despite calls by Poland to scrap the scheme after the deadly attacks in Paris. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. “We’ll want to make sure that’s thorough enough but I would want to do that before calling for a stop”. “Because there’s no way to background check someone that’s coming from Syria. You may even see them increase”. That only tends to engender resentment on both sides, experts say, potentially radicalizing people who initially posed no threat at all. “They will think we are the enemy”.
Hours before the terrorist attacks began in Paris last Friday, Barack Obama told ABC News that “we have contained” the Islamic State. “That’s not American, it’s not who we are”. More than two dozen governors, including Georgia’s Nathan Deal, say their states won’t accept the 10,000 Syrian asylum-seekers bound for the US, although their legal authority to do so is questionable.
To those who have doubts about Syrians after the French attacks, Dawood said: “A terrorist is a terrorist”.
He defended Hungary’s decision to built fences on its borders with Serbia and Croatia to divert the flow of migrants, saying Friday’s attacks were an attack on whole Europe.
Mr Tusk did not mention Russian Federation by name but said IS is “the real enemy of the free world, not the moderate Syrian opposition”.
They said as many as three of the seven suicide bombers who died in the attacks were French citizens.
Several groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) say the effort to not accept refugees is a mistake.
A debate has erupted in the United States over the acceptance or refusal of Syrian Refugees and that debate could actually be moot – in the context of the recent attacks in Paris. “He should have put it away somewhere and gone to hell”, wrote Jalal Abazid on Facebook, a Syrian refugee in Germany.
“The barbaric attacks in Paris, an assault on civilization itself, add huge new urgency”, Senator Sessions said in a letter to the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “That is really pretty obscene actually, given what happened in Paris”. Bernie Sanders, and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley – said the United States should admit far more than the 10,000 Syrians to which Obama has committed, but only with proper screening. While the president is correct that we should impose no “religious test” for refugees in a pluralistic country such as ours, there is an argument that Syrian Christians should be considered for priority in the same way that European Jews seeking refuge should have been greater priority in the 1930s.
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“Terrorists are deliberately and systematically exploiting mass migration in order to blend in among masses of people who are leaving their homes in the hope of a better life”, Orban said. “And I would be open to that if it can do it in a way that allows us to ensure that among them are not infiltrated, people who are part of a terrorist organization”.
