They include President Barack Obama, whose impatience with legitimate security questions does not serve a cause important to both American values and national security.
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A Rasmussen poll showed that 60 percent of likely USA voters oppose settling those refugees in their states, while just 28 percent would accept them.
Making pointed appeals to her own history as a Czechoslovakian refugee during the 1950s, Albright also said inflated anti-refugee rhetoric historically reemerges during periods of terror, which makes it hard for Americans to understand the strife of incoming migrants.
Forty-seven of Mr Obama’s 188 fellow Democrats backed the bill, breaking with the White House to support it. “As we accept more refugees from Syria or Iraq, we must implement an additional level of security to guarantee our nation’s safety”. As of Monday, the letter had dozens of lawmakers’ signatures. There will always be a risk involved in any immigration process, and the risk present in refugee resettlement is real. “Second thing is, there are a lot of ISIS sympathizers in this country, the FBI already has investigations in all 50 states we already have an ISIS problem here, let’s not delude ourselves”, Mudd said. Neighboring Republican governors in Nebraska, Kansas, IL and Wisconsin did. Florida Republicans Tom Rooney and Curt Clawson have anti-refugee bills of their own. Several of the Democrats who crossed party lines said the bill offers beneficial security measures.
If it passes in the Senate, each chamber would have to muster a two-thirds majority to override any Obama veto. The bill specifies that each application be personally certified by the director of National Intelligence, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that a refugee is not a threat to national security.
The administration has found a few unlikely allies. “We can do this right”, he testified.
In the address, Biden said the Islamic State, which he called a “gang of thugs”, wants people to “think in terms of us versus them” and wants the U.S.to turn its back on Muslims.
Obama, speaking in the Philippines, said that the Republicans’ rhetoric was a “potent recruitment tool for ISIS”.
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“America has a proud tradition of being the most generous nation in the world, and we will maintain our ongoing commitment to provide humanitarian aid to innocent Syrians where we can and seek to assist them in finding refuge in places closer to their homeland”.
