I’d like to think these individuals will understand – by just reading the paper and receiving communications from the organizations that they support – that this is a massive crisis with millions of vulnerable men, women, and children who require global aid.
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A reporter with England’s MailOnline bought a forged Syrian passport with that same name.
Greek and Serbian authorities have confirmed that the passport found at the football stadium was issued to a man who registered as a refugee in October on the island of Leros and applied for asylum in Serbia a few days later.
Poland’s incoming minister for European affairs, Konrad Szymanski, said that in light of the Paris attacks, Poland can not implement an EU agreement to accept 7,000 refugees – and must implement stricter border controls with security concerns paramount.
Most of those who enter countries on the so-called Balkan corridor for migrants – Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia – are registered with authorities.
“The State of Wisconsin will not accept new Syrian refugees”, Gov. Walker said. He said that those behind the bloody nightmare that unfolded Friday were “exactly those who the refugees are fleeing”, adding that “there is no need to revise the European Union’s entire refugee policy”.
“You can not stop someone who has made a decision to die”, he said, showing Almohammad’s passport photo and fingerprints. He said that no refugees should be permitted into the US from Syria “unless they be Christian refugees that are facing genocide”, and said that the spending bill should contain language specifying as much. This infects the British debate about getting involved in Syria, and will make the Germans more allergic to using force. “If they’re such an idyllic caliphate, why are people leaving in droves?”
Speaking from a summit in Turkey, President Barack Obama said it would be important “that we not close our hearts to these victims of such violence, and somehow, start equating the issue of refugees with the issue of terrorism”. Authorities stressed that the passport has not been authenticated. His Syrian passport somehow survived the explosion, giving police one of their first clues in what would become one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in history.
The migrants’ fingerprints were rarely if ever taken on Leros, and when the influx picked up in late summer, the maritime police responsible for processing arrivals set up a little registration desk right on the pier, taking names and countries of origin from the asylum seekers as they disembarked from the coast guard vessels that had plucked them from the Aegean hours earlier. The local police later told social workers that they had no record of a boy by that name ever arriving on the island.
But according to the Serbian daily Blic, the existence of the second passport with the same data means “it is likely that the two men separately purchased false Syrian passports at the same forger in Turkey”.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, a former member of ISIS emphasized that Syrian passports, like the one found on that Paris terrorist, can be bought from the Syrian regime.
“But we are faced with a question: which approach is more humane?” “That’s not American. That’s not who we are”.
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“It’s not that we don’t want to, it’s that we can’t”, Rubio said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”. It includes the huge economic cost of housing and resettling so many displaced people all at once. “With our help they could fight their country back”.
