Religious Leaders Chide Lawmakers Over Syrian Refugees

Such terrorists include the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the Boston Marathon killing five, and two al-Qaida-linked terrorists who obtained a Stinger missile launcher with the intention of attacking a military base in Kentucky. While this legislation halts admission of Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the United States, it's important to understand that the SAFE Act wouldn't prevent these individuals from eventually seeking refuge in our country.

The House stopped short of imposing a religious test for Syrian refugees, but the vote two weeks ago to intensify the screening of Syrians seeking to enter the United States drew criticism from Christian and Muslim supporters of refugee resettlement. How they've been received along the way is telling. It has ignored its track record of miscalculating serious terrorist threats.

Can you honestly read that and feel we should reject these victims of the Islamic State? Since the conflict in Syria began in March 2011, the US has resettled fewer than 2,500 Syrian refugees.

Contrary to some of the headlines circulating Thursday, Syrian refugees are not reluctant to come to Canada, says an official from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

We can only query against that which we have collected. Strong screening and US immigration jurisdiction isn't readily available in Syria, but it is available here. "That prompted these calls from governor saying 'we don't want any Syrian refugees, ' and their focus has been more so on continuing to tell the story of refugees and insisting that they are all very rigorously screened before they come to the U.S".

Kansas has several programs that offer resettlement aid to refugees through multiple state agencies, including the Department of Health and Environment and the Department of Children and Families. "They will face further problem[s] in future".

Kurdish Syrian refugee Sahin Serko cries next to his seven-year-old daughter Ariana minutes after crossing the ... (By contrast, the French have agreed to accept 30,000 - even in the wake of the Paris attacks.) But in the name of our common humanity, we must at least do that much.

In the battle for hearts and minds, branding refugees as security threats - as politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are doing - only fuels intolerance and gives terrorists a potent recruitment tool to convince young Muslims that the West has no place for them. And those responsible for the safety of the American people must be willing to say they are confident that refugees pose no threat to our county's citizens.

Russian Federation supports the Assad regime; Europe supports the anti-Assad movement; and Islamic State gains more power.

In his statement, he called for an end to placement of certain Central American refugees, an end to Obama's executive actions shielding some immigrants from deportation, and a crackdown on municipalities that don't allocate local police resources to enforce immigration laws.

Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed for a Quinnipiac University National poll say jihadists raised in the country are America's most likely terrorism danger.

The right-wing commentator eventually brought together the Obama administration's handling of ISIS, the Syrian refugee crisis and gun control, insisting that "the deranged Obama" intends to disarm Americans while turning Syrian refugees into his personal force. "These numbers suggest there are, at a minimum, hundreds of millions of isis supporters worldwide".

According to the report, there are thousands of ISIS sympathizers in the US and in 2015 has seen the most terrorism-related arrests since 9/11.

A week prior to the Paris attacks, astute observers, like former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, knew that it was "only a matter of time" before Europe experienced a terrorist strike.