Posted on 09/22/2015 7:19:44 AM PDT by lbryce
Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that the United States will increase the number of refugees it accepts annually from around the world to 85,000 in 2016 and 100,000 in 2017.
“This step is in keeping with America’s best tradition as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope,” Kerry said following a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier about the Syrian refugee crisis, the Associated Press reported.
The number would mark a more than 40 percent increase in accepted refugees over two years. Currently, the U.S. caps the number of refugees at 70,000. Earlier this month, President Obama ordered the government to accept at least 10,000 more Syrian refugees in the next fiscal year as approximately 4.1 million refugees flee the country’s civil war.
Many of the refugees arriving over the next few years will come from Syria, according to officials, but some will also hail from areas of Africa. Kerry said Sunday that the U.S. cannot accept more refugees than its cap because of security screening requirements, emphasizing that the government will not cut corners when it comes to security checks.
Nevertheless, government officials are worried that Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIL or ISIS) terrorists might see the Syrian refugee crisis as a channel through which to enter Europe or the United States. For example, director of National Intelligence James Clapper recently expressed “huge concern” that IS militants might infiltrate the crowds of Syrian refugees fleeing West.
In the wake of Kerry’s announcement Sunday, chairs of the congressional judiciary committees said that Americans cannot trust the Obama administration to prevent terrorists from infiltrating groups of refugees in order to gain access to the country.
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F**K THEM! F**K THEM ALL TO H3LL!
John effn Kerry has no control over how many ‘refugees’ are admitted into this country after January 20, 2017.
I’m specifically talking about the administration, especially FRANKENKERRY.
No we wont...
My thoughts exactly. Unless he knows something we don’t.
The sorry pos is committed to destroying us at home and abroad.
NOTICE how they have Kerry making these statements instead of the Muzzie in the White House? It’s almost as if the muzzie in chief has nothing to do with it.
Sounds like a good issue for the Pubs to campaign on. "Do you want 100,000 islamists imported into your neighborhood? Do you care about your children?"
TRUMP WON’T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps our best option is that one of these (terrorist) refugees blows up and kills a bunch of liberals in some liberal loony enclave of mental disorders like Wash. DC.
Would even that dissuade them from importing them here?
Probably not. Not just 7 years after muslims killed 3,000 people on US soil did we elect a muzzie as president.
These are same people our Troops died fighting in the War on Terror. No wonder our Military moral is at an all time low.
Somebody needs to ask Kerry how he knows what the gov’t is going to do in Jan 2017
Kerry put them in your own houses. I’m sure you have plenty of room. If you’re gonna make the call, then you can do it yourself, Mr. Enlightened One.
send them to Marthas Vineyard..There’s plenty of room there!
The Secretary of State makes law?
Who needs Congress?
John Kerry to take a long walk off a short pier in 2017
The Limbaugh theorem.
House them on the ground of his multiple mansions.
Anti American lurch looking idiot.
Act of love for O and ValJar, deathwish for anyone else supporting this.
“we are taking in 100,000”
Translation:
We are accepting as many as we can grab. We have to put a number on it so we look like it is planned and orderly, and that we are counting. We actually intend to open the floodgates, and we know it is impossible for you to ever prove that we let in a half a million+.
We already under report Mexicans, unemployment numbers, inflation stats, you name it.
President Trump may have something to say about how many refugees will be accepted in 2017.
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