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Republicans Are Trying to Block Syrian Refugees Yet Again
Mother Jones ^ | January 8, 2016 | Max J. Rosenthal

Posted on 01/10/2016 7:53:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Republican politicians have restarted their push to stop Syrian refugees from entering the United States after the FBI announced on Thursday that it had arrested two Iraqi refugees on charges of providing material support to ISIS.

"The arrests of these men present a stark warning about the deficiencies of our programs for accepting refugees from Iraq and Syria," Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement on Friday. "Continuing these programs in their current form poses unacceptable risks to our national security that are growing more acute by the day."

The House passed a bill called the American SAFE Act in November after the terrorist attacks in Paris stoked fears that terrorists were trying to infiltrate the United States by posing as refugees. The legislation would temporarily halt all Syrian refugee resettlement, and within the current refugee vetting process it would require the FBI director, the Homeland Security secretary, and the director of national intelligence to all personally sign off that each admitted Syrian posed no security risk....

(Excerpt) Read more at motherjones.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; california; demagogicparty; devinnunes; election2016; islam; maxjrosenthal; memebuilding; motherjones; muslims; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; refugees; safeact; syria; trump; waronterror
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How dare they! /s
1 posted on 01/10/2016 7:53:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Repatriate the ones we have here already. ALL Muslims.

Trump is going to move the Overton window on this where it needs to be. “Should we send the ones here already out?”


2 posted on 01/10/2016 7:55:43 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Yup, they all need to go back, one way or another.


3 posted on 01/10/2016 7:56:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Leftist are bringing in more murderers and rapist yet again!
4 posted on 01/10/2016 7:56:31 PM PST by demshateGod (Trump for press secretary! Cruz for president!)
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To: demshateGod

Voters.


5 posted on 01/10/2016 7:58:27 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good. I hope they succeed.


6 posted on 01/10/2016 8:01:24 PM PST by Parley Baer
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“Continuing these programs in their current form poses unacceptable risks to our national security... that’s why we fully funded every one of them for the year!”


7 posted on 01/10/2016 8:01:33 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We need them here to do the job that domestic terrorists won’t do!


8 posted on 01/10/2016 8:02:12 PM PST by ArtDodger
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“Republicans Are Trying to Block Syrian Refugees Yet Again”

“Again”. Must be a reason. /s


9 posted on 01/10/2016 8:02:38 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You mean they are working to stop Obama from allowing the jumbo-jets full of “refugees” to come in the dark of night like they have been for the last few years?


10 posted on 01/10/2016 8:03:51 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Read the comments over at MJ. It’s like arguing with chimps.


11 posted on 01/10/2016 8:05:11 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Note how the premise makes anyone opposing the left’s goal automatically wrong and evil. Why should we accept any “refugees?” And who are they, where are they from, to whom does their allegiance lie? Are those pertinent questions ever part of the leftist diatribe? Not to the rabid leftists who never tire of false accusations, never.


12 posted on 01/10/2016 8:07:23 PM PST by Fungi
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We need them here to do the job that domestic terrorists won't do!

If only we could get them to "do a job" on the domestic savages.

13 posted on 01/10/2016 8:08:29 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Secret Agent Man

They need their own planet!


14 posted on 01/10/2016 8:23:04 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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David Miliband: US must not stop Syrian resettlement, would be threat to “global governance”

http://anncorcoran2016.org/2016/01/02/david-miliband-us-must-not-stop-syrian-resettlement-would-be-threat-to-global-governance/


15 posted on 01/10/2016 8:43:21 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mother Jones serves its purpose, if communist are reading they have less time to kill people.


16 posted on 01/10/2016 8:49:24 PM PST by heights
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t imagine why. I mean, they’re working out so well in Germany...


17 posted on 01/10/2016 9:07:40 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: TigerClaws

Get em outta here.


18 posted on 01/10/2016 9:52:31 PM PST 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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Republicans Are Trying to Block Syrian Refugees Yet Again

And?

19 posted on 01/10/2016 10:10:25 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("We need someone to lead us back to the standard of excellence we once epitomized." --Donald Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As an ESL teacher let me tell you the narratives from these refugees as to why they’re here. For example, “a drunk American militry guy killed my parents (in Pakistan) so i had to come and live here.” or “My brother was shot on a basketball court by an American in Michigan”....they tell storeis of abuse at the hands of Americans. Why they stay here, I’ll never know.


20 posted on 01/10/2016 10:11:49 PM PST by ruthles (NO)
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