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Exclusive: U.S. Will Now Let in Thousands of Syrian Refugees
Foreign Policy ^ | August 08, 2013 | John Hudson, Noah Shachtman

Posted on 08/08/2013 4:42:34 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing

With conditions continuing to deteriorate in Syria, the Obama administration is making a major policy shift by agreeing for the first time to allow thousands of new Syrian refugees into the United States, The Cable has learned.

The numbers are relatively small: just 2,000 refugees, compared to an estimated two million people who have fled Syria during the civil war. But it's a significant increase from the 90 or so Syrian refugees who have been permanently admitted to the U.S. in the last two years. And it's not entirely uncontroversial. The refugees, mostly women and children, will be screened for terrorist ties -- a process that could take a year or more to complete.

Unlike previous efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to give temporary protected status to Syrians already in the United States, the State Department effort will bring in Syrians from overseas for permanent resettlement in America.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecable.foreignpolicy.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; jordan; lebanon; nationalsecurityfail; obama; randsconcerntrolls; refugees; russia; syria; syrian; waronterror
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Is this because our economy is doing so well? /s Hey America!!!, stay tuned for more Boston Bombings coming to a town near YOU!
1 posted on 08/08/2013 4:42:35 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Holy crap! They’re doing exactly the same thing the leftists did in Europe. Play by play!


2 posted on 08/08/2013 4:43:42 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Awesome. Do they get to bring their rocket launchers with them?


3 posted on 08/08/2013 4:43:46 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The refugees, mostly women and children

Hopefully Christian or soon to be Christian once they hear the “word.”


4 posted on 08/08/2013 4:45:27 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Wonder how many AQ operatives will be coming in with them.


5 posted on 08/08/2013 4:45:41 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Invade the world
Invite the world
In hock to the world


6 posted on 08/08/2013 4:45:51 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

What could go wrong???/s


7 posted on 08/08/2013 4:47:46 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: rfreedom4u
"mostly women and children"

"mostly women (named Achmed) and children (with beards)"

8 posted on 08/08/2013 4:49:48 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Obama is letting in al Qaeda, after giving them
MANPADs to also take in through the open borders.

The US Congress is whoring, drunk, and screwing the public.

This will not end well.


9 posted on 08/08/2013 4:50:44 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: tacticalogic

There may be Al Qaeda but I am not sure they have to wait for this to come in. They can just walk across the border


10 posted on 08/08/2013 4:51:33 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Good news for the 24 hours cable news networks that cover attacks and disasters in America. Lots of ratings being imported in. I don’t know about bringing all of these cowards here who are afraid to fight for their own country though. I doubt if they’d ever stand up and fight for America either.


11 posted on 08/08/2013 4:52:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Senator Foghorn says, You should never resist being raped, robbed, beat down or murdered.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

If anybody deserves asylum, it’s whites in South Africa who are being brutally murdered and driven from their farms.


12 posted on 08/08/2013 4:52:18 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: Cementjungle

“Awesome. Do they get to bring their rocket launchers with them?”

No just housewares (pressure cookers, fertilizers and such).


13 posted on 08/08/2013 4:52:46 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: plain talk
There may be Al Qaeda but I am not sure they have to wait for this to come in. They can just walk across the border

Why walk, when you can fly (probably first class) on the Great Satan's dime?

14 posted on 08/08/2013 4:54:26 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
mostly women and children - who do they think they are kidding??

Once in their radical relatives will follow - more for the Muslim Trojan Horse.

15 posted on 08/08/2013 4:55:04 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Oh goody...just what we need...the Muslim version of Jimma Carter's Cuban boat lift....wonder if he'll clean out his jails as well.
16 posted on 08/08/2013 4:55:29 PM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: CivilWarBrewing

2,000 more perpetually outraged possible terrorists. Way to go Barry.


17 posted on 08/08/2013 4:55:44 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

As long as they let in the Christians fleeing persecution by the “rebels” I’m all for letting in Syrian refugees — the big Arab Christian population in Wichita came here the last time the Sunnis in that part of the world decided to persecute Christians (look up a life of St. Joseph of Damascus). I have a feeling, though, I’ll end up being against the policy when they just let in Sunnis.


18 posted on 08/08/2013 4:57:06 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Democrat voters!!! Yeah.


19 posted on 08/08/2013 5:01:01 PM PDT by liberty or death
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Obama administration is making a major policy shift by agreeing for the first time to allow thousands of new Syrian refugees into the United States

The U.S. is so screwed...

20 posted on 08/08/2013 5:02:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Jordan?
Saudi Arabia?
Singapore???

How many damn nations with that crescent moon in their flag are there that they cant take in their Muslim “brothers”?

Nah! We can take them in!


21 posted on 08/08/2013 5:02:34 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: CivilWarBrewing

2 bombers shut down the greater Boston area.

Only 2,000 Syrians?

Good thing we beat terrorism... What? Oh.


22 posted on 08/08/2013 5:03:54 PM PDT by Noamie
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23 posted on 08/08/2013 5:04:03 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Wow, it’s almost as if it had been planned this way!

/feigned surpise


24 posted on 08/08/2013 5:06:48 PM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Meanwhile a Christian Germany family seeking asylum in American in order to home-school their children was rejected.
25 posted on 08/08/2013 5:09:44 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Meanwhile a Christian Germany family seeking asylum in America for the freedom to home-school their children was rejected.
26 posted on 08/08/2013 5:10:17 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
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To: CivilWarBrewing

And existing American citizens still can’t visit their own White House. FUBO and congress.


27 posted on 08/08/2013 5:11:58 PM PDT by soycd
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Have the neocons shown up to tell all how hard working wonderful pro-family these people are?


28 posted on 08/08/2013 5:13:45 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Dallas59

They will be checked for RPGs. I they don’t have them, State Dept will give them each one. /s


29 posted on 08/08/2013 5:17:03 PM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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All Part of the Muslim in Chief’s plan.


30 posted on 08/08/2013 5:17:18 PM PDT by thegrump
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Oh yeah, team Obama/Jarrett/Hitlery/Kerry/Holder are REALLY gonna do some screening to make sure terrorists don't get in.

You know, like they did in Boston, when the Russians warned us about those two Muslims who killed people at the marathon.


31 posted on 08/08/2013 5:20:32 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

No!

Not that anyone asked my permission.


32 posted on 08/08/2013 5:21:41 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

voting privileges will be given to the “refugees” who are probably all MB sympathizers...I was predicting this months ago...along with other people,,no surprise


33 posted on 08/08/2013 5:23:50 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: CivilWarBrewing

It seems so incredibly simple. Let Muslim countries take in Muslim refugees. We already take in more than our fair share without putting the country at such great risk.

But no....


34 posted on 08/08/2013 5:26:27 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: CivilWarBrewing

To obtain welfare from those that are working. Or it comes from Obama’s stash. Or someplace.


35 posted on 08/08/2013 5:27:11 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: thegrump
"All Part of the Muslim in Chief’s plan."

At every turn Obama favors the Islamists and weakens the US. He is also arming Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood trying to overthrow Assad. If Assad falls, hundreds of thousands of Christians in Syria will have to flee or be killed. You won't hear about the plight of the Christians in Syria any more than he is worried about the slaughter of the Copts in Egypt.

36 posted on 08/08/2013 5:30:56 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: CivilWarBrewing

No prob, as long as they’re settled in Georgetown.


37 posted on 08/08/2013 5:32:25 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: 9YearLurker

“...without putting the country at such great risk.”

That worked out real well with the Iraqis who helped blow the Murrah Bldg in OKC.

We’re so infiltrated and compromised now, on every imaginable level, that when the tens/hundreds-of-thousands of terrorist sleepers get the “go orders”, TSHTF.


38 posted on 08/08/2013 5:34:56 PM PDT by carriage_hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The USA is going to hxll in a hand basket because of so-called wealthy elites and limousine NYC liberals who not only own the lib Party, but have it by the bxlls, as well as their politicians. They are intent on dividing and conquering us, and taking our firearms too, just as Pat Buchanan and others have enumerated many times.


39 posted on 08/08/2013 5:36:44 PM PDT by apoliticalone
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I am so angry about this I can’t come up with the proper cure words to express myself!


40 posted on 08/08/2013 5:42:04 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Oh Crap!)
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To: rfreedom4u

They’ll be passed thru the Muslim Mosque organizations to “adjust”.... who will instill further in them how to ‘avoid’ and resist proselytizing....furthermore what will happen if they do.

Over time they will then teach them how to have “christian” conversations with Christians , using Christian verbiage, in order to convert Christians to Islam and assure them that was their purpose for being brought here..to help make American Islamic.

.... So now what is this about us Christianizing them?????


41 posted on 08/08/2013 5:43:30 PM PDT by caww
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To: CivilWarBrewing

How many AQ members among the Syrian “refugees”?


42 posted on 08/08/2013 5:45:29 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: apoliticalone
The news media becoming propagandists for the government did more damage than anything. 0bama skates on Fast & Furious, IRS/FEC, Benghazi, DOJ spying on Fox News, NSA spying on Americans without warrants, etc.. Then there's that side crap like Lisa Jackson using personal Email accounts (Richard Windsor) to conduct subversive EPA official business to escape accountability. Hell, she should've done it using official Email! She'd not suffer any consequences for it, based on how Boehner's GOP has handled the other scandals.

When 0bama uses the NSA and DOJ to unearth EVERYTHING in one's past, it's difficult to get ANYONE to risk losing their career to get the truth out about 0bama's crimes. EVERYONE IN CONGRESS IS BEING BLACKMAILED, INCLUDING ROBERTS FOR HIS OBAMACARE DECISION. That didn't smell right at the time and now we know why.

43 posted on 08/08/2013 5:47:45 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: rfreedom4u
...”The refugees, mostly women and children”...

You left off the part about these woman and children being ill or needing medical attention or having been tortured...which the article speaks about..those at the front of the line..

So when you add Islamic teaching to abused and tortured...what do you get...post-tramatic psychological issues....80% of Muslims who come to this country have psychological problems.

But I'm sure they'll find outstanding jobs and contribute to the Obamacare Health Insurance...right?

44 posted on 08/08/2013 5:48:53 PM PDT by caww
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To: Jay Redhawk

That would be “curse” words. Me and my damn spelling.


45 posted on 08/08/2013 5:49:36 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Oh Crap!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

This is no longer the United States of America....it is now something else altogether...one of which is the dumping ground for the misfits of third world countries their own people won’t take.


46 posted on 08/08/2013 5:51:04 PM PDT by caww
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To: dragnet2

47 posted on 08/08/2013 5:54:27 PM PDT by caww
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Why doesn’t China take a few?


48 posted on 08/08/2013 5:55:17 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: carriage_hill
Orders like this....


49 posted on 08/08/2013 5:59:07 PM PDT by caww
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To: CivilWarBrewing

None of these people will understand our history or the basic pinning’s of a Republic Democracy or the mind set of our Founding Fathers.


50 posted on 08/08/2013 5:59:30 PM PDT by Alissa
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