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State seeks to pick up pace on bringing Syrian refugees to US
[THEHILL] The State Department is hoping to bring an average of nearly 1,500 Syrian refugees to the United States per month in order to meet President B.O.'s target of settling 10,000 refugees in the country by September.About 1,300 refugees have already been placed in the United States since Obama first made the commitment in September. That's far fewer than those taken in by European countries such as Germany, who has dealt with an unprecedented wave of ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... in Iraq and Syria. Yet the settlement has provoked a significant backlash, mostly from Republicans, who argue it puts the U.S. at risk from terrorism. "It's clear that ISIS wants to, has planned on attempting to infiltrate refugee populations. This is a problem. If one person gets through who is planning a terrorist attack in our country, that's a problem," House Speaker Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... , who recently returned from a trip to the region, said Thursday. "The administration -- whether it's Homeland Security or the FBI, cannot tell us that they can adequately screen people. There isn't really a Syrian to talk to on that end of the equation to vet people, so it is a problem," Ryan told news hounds. The State Department says it has fallen behind schedule in meting Obama’s goal partly due to a lack of personnel available to interview refugees. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-17 |
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