“Should refugees have religious freedom?” is now a serious question in the Republican primary
"Following the Islamic State’s coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday, blame became a highly-traded commodity. Within hours, conservatives had tied the attacks to everything from Obama to gun control to safe spaces on college campuses to, perhaps most frequently, Syrian refugees and Europe’s openness to them — without any evidence that the attackers had entered the country as refugees in the first place.
At least three of the eight attackers were French nationals.
But that didn’t stop Jeb Bush, and then Ted Cruz — both self-described defenders of “religious freedom” — from saying that what these attacks really show is that we need to apply a religious test for incoming refugees. And it isn’t enough that we screen out Muslims; we have to screen
for Christians.
As Bush
said on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning, “We should focus our efforts as it relates to refugees on the Christians that are being slaughtered.”
...It takes
between 18 and 24 months for a refugee to be granted entry to our country because every refugee admitted to the county
must complete the following:
- Multiple high-level security checks
- Biometric screening
- A mandatory interview with the Department of Homeland Security
- A medical screening
- A cultural orientation program (which consists of videos on housing, employment, education, and hygiene, among other topics)
Adding a sixth bullet point there to include a religious test isn’t going to make that process any more difficult, in no small part due to the fact that a great number of Muslim refugees — from Syria and elsewhere — are already converting to Christianity in hopes that it will increase their chances of asylum in Europe..."
http://americablog.com/2015/11/does...rious-question-in-the-republican-primary.html
The FBI Director testified that we lack the means to screen them adequately. I also recall the flood of latin american "refugees' who were certainly not given any screening at all. Obama was so desperate to get as many as pssoible in here and hide them as quickly as possible, proper screening was dispensed with.
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FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that gaps still remain in the process by which the United States screens refugees entering the country.
The
Associated Press reported that Comey told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that, though the U.S. has improved the process, there remain risks in accepting refugees from countries experiencing conflict like Syria.
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Meanwhile, intelligence leaders and lawmakers worry that the flow of refugees will threaten U.S. national security, particularly given the rise of the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIL or ISIS) in Syria and Iraq.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
expressed concern last month that IS terrorists will “infiltrate” crowds of Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe and the United States. Approximately 4.1 million refugees are fleeing Syria to escape the civil war there.
Moreover, Rep. Brian Babin (R., Texas) told the
Washington Free Beacon in a recent interview that Obama’s “open-door policy” toward refugees will allow IS to enter the U.S. He also labeled the refugee screening process “ineffective.”
“It’s already ineffective. And loading tens of thousands more onto an already overloaded system, I think it’s going to be almost a completely useless endeavor to try to screen and vet these refugees,” Babin, who has introduced legislation to analyze the costs and national security implications of the refugee resettlement program, said.
The Obama administration has insisted that the increased number of refugees will not hamper the security measures in place to screen them.
A majority of Americans
opposes the president’s plan to accept 10,000 more Syrian refugees in fiscal year 2016.
http://freebeacon.com/national-secu...s-remain-in-syrian-refugee-screening-process/
