John Kerry: U.S. Will Accept 100,000 Refugees in 2017

Washington Beacon ^ | Morgan Chalifant

[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.

[FreeAtlanta]

I bet some of these refugees actual did kill or wound our men.

[ETL]

I’m sure they could fit several thousand in the various mansions or on the estate grounds owned by millionaire or billionaire democrats like Kerry, John Edwards, Gore, etc. They should have plenty of room to set up refugee camps on their huge properties.

[pabianice]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Growing-Anger-Despair-and-by-michael-payne-110907-170.html

[saintgermaine]

Martha’s Vineyard would be an excellent place for a major portion of them.

[Gaffer]

The words I want to hear from the President at 12:01PM January 20, 2017.

“Former Secretary Kerry has misspoken. I fired his ass 59 seconds ago.”

[txrefugee]

Not if Trump is inaugurated in January 2017. These are Obama’s executive orders. Trump can issue his own, cutting the number to only those immigrants who have been waiting five or more years for our lousy government to approve their applications. That will take years because our immigration services have been too busy catering to illegal squatters who have no legal right to be in the U.S.

[Pollster1]

I will be relieved beyond words when these traitors are out of office and can no longer damage our country. The two main problems are: (1) the parasitic voters who cheer for socialism are still out there, and (2) the massive debt from our eight year experiment with gigantic government will cripple the next generation, whether or not they learned from the economic devastation of these eight terrible years.

[Sacajaweau]

John....you'll be off riding your bike in 2017....and people will already have forgotten you and your disastrous reign.

[HarleyLady27]

I think there is more to this than we will ever know right now....

[BigCinBigD]

Want bet on it, horse face.

[b4its2late]

We actually have no control over now either.

[Gaffer]

That is true. But it will come to an end within 14 months, or we will end as a country.

[Signalman]

If the GOP presidential candidate does not make a huge issue out of this, he deserves to lose the election.

[Iron Munro]

The article doesn't mention how many of these American hating muslim Haji's will be personally sponsored and supported by multi-millionaires Secretary of State John Kerry and wife Teresa Heinz Kerry.

It also doesn't tell us how many Jihadi's the Kerrys will provide housing for in their many multi-million dollar homes in the USA.

No one knows how many homes they might own outside the USA as John Kerry has refused to answer that question.

KERRY HOME #1 - Fox Chapel, PA (2004 Assessed value: $3.7 million)

KERRY HOME #2 - Ketchum, ID (2004 Assessed value: $4.9 million)

KERRY HOME #3 - Washington, D.C (2004 Assessed value: $4.7 million)

KERRY HOME #4 - Nantucket, MA (2004 Assessed value: $9.2 million)

KERRY HOME #5 - Boston, MA (2004 Assessed value: $6.9 million)

[boycott]

The Limbaugh theorem.

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I hadn’t heard Limbaugh’s comments on this but he sure nailed it. I observed the same without ever hearing his comments on it.

[Black Agnes]

Yup.

[ETL]

The words I want to hear from the President at 12:01PM January 20, 2017:
"Former Secretary Kerry has misspoken. I fired his ass 59 seconds ago."

Here are the words I want to hear from the President at 12:01PM:
"Former Secretary Kerry has misspoken. I fired his ass 59 seconds ago.".

"And since I hired him, and since my and my administration's goals were never meant to be for the good of the US anyway, I too will immediately step down".

[Gaffer]

Actually, 12:00 PM on Friday January 20, 2017 is the inauguration of the next President. Former President Obama should be on his way to Hawaii or wherever the hell he’s going by then.

[manic4organic]

President Cruz will not let that happen.

[Logical me]

John effn Kerry has no control over how many ‘refugees’ are admitted into this country after January 20, 2017.

You better hope by 2017 Trump is President. All the rest would not stop it. Anyway they will be shipped in and disbursed before the 20th.