“They are parents, they are children, they are orphans”, President Obama said on Monday.
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His comments come after the passport of a Syrian citizen was found at one of the sites of the attack in Paris, although it was not certain if it belonged to the person it was found next to. “They tell me that this can not be done”.
The Paris attacks have elevated national security in the presidential contest.
“Louisiana has been kept in the dark about those seeking refuge in the state”, Jindal wrote in a letter to Obama. He said the federal government can’t perform “proper security checks” on Syrians. The person using the passport eventually entered Paris, where he was one of three men who blew themselves up at the Stade de France, CNN reports. “Authorities need to investigate what happened in Europe before this problem comes to the United States”, Jindal said.
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) said the refugees are being thoroughly vetted. The US should boost surveillance of Muslim communities, King added.
Republican Sen. and Louisiana gubernatorial candidate David Vitter joined the fray on Facebook.
One of the attackers involved in Paris shootings and bombings that killed 132 people reportedly may have slipped into the country disguised as a refugee. He also wants to know the extent of background screening before Syrians entered the U.S. United States as well as what monitoring would be done once the refugees make it to Louisiana.
“We should not rush to offer an open door to the high-risk importation of individuals from a known hotbed of Islamic extremism who security officials say can not be safely screened to identify and block jihadists masked as “refugees” who’d love to bring suicide vests and grenades to Ford Field or Fisher Theatre or Great Lakes Crossing”, Glenn said. “I don’t like a Muslim in our White House. And I think we have a responsibility to help”. Sanders, I-Vt., won’t put a number on it.
O’Malley said these refugees are fleeing terrorism, and the United States needs to be “a moral leader in this world”. More than 810,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean this year, and over 200,000 in October alone.
Both MI and Texas have resettled Syrian refugees since beginning of the Syrian civil war. He added: “As your Governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm’s way”.
Rauner, a Republican, said in a statement, “Our nation and our state have a shared history of providing safe haven for those displaced by conflict, but the news surrounding the Paris terror attacks reminds us of the all-too-real security threats facing America”.
The governors said they were ordering their state departments of health and human services to stop working with Syrian refugees.
Governors from Alabama, MI and now Texas have each announced that they would no longer accept refugees in their states following the recent deadly attacks in Paris.
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Houston has five organizations that will assist the refugees when they get here.
