February 13, 2016
By Jordain Carney
Senate Republicans (click here) are raising concerns that the Obama administration is preparing to interview a "surge" of Syrian refugees, as part of the vetting process to potentially allow some to be admitted into the United States.
By Jordain Carney
Senate Republicans (click here) are raising concerns that the Obama administration is preparing to interview a "surge" of Syrian refugees, as part of the vetting process to potentially allow some to be admitted into the United States.
A handful of Senate Republicans said Friday that the Judiciary Committee has learned that the administration is sending officials to Jordan to interview thousands of candidates for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.
"The Administration’s refusal to suspend or even slow the pace of such refugee processing is particularly disturbing when reports abound of [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] terrorists intentionally inserting themselves into the Syrian refugee stream," the senators wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry.
"The Administration’s refusal to suspend or even slow the pace of such refugee processing is particularly disturbing when reports abound of [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] terrorists intentionally inserting themselves into the Syrian refugee stream," the senators wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry.
The senators added that according to what the committee has been told, the administration is sending between 200-300 officials to Jordan for at least 45 days....
The names of refugees and where they are located doesn't have to be disclosed. I think with all the violence affiliated with migrants, especially in Paris, it is only right to provide some insight to the people vetted and the vetting process. Europe should be so lucky as to have the option of vetting people that have come to their borders for safe haven. Europe doesn't have that luxury.
Europe has been forced to take whoever comes across their borders without vetting them. That has already proven to put Parisians in danger for their lives. That cannot be ignored. There is real danger of violence in some of these young men that come seeking safe haven. Their reason for coming to Paris was never benign. And the migrant coming to kill people had a cell in Paris waiting for him. This is not a minor issue.
But, the one way to understand the care taken with refugees to the USA is to put it on film. The State Department needs a good documentarian, quite frankly. I am sure the vetting process may also turn up questionable folks. That should be known, too.
The names of refugees and where they are located doesn't have to be disclosed. I think with all the violence affiliated with migrants, especially in Paris, it is only right to provide some insight to the people vetted and the vetting process. Europe should be so lucky as to have the option of vetting people that have come to their borders for safe haven. Europe doesn't have that luxury.
Europe has been forced to take whoever comes across their borders without vetting them. That has already proven to put Parisians in danger for their lives. That cannot be ignored. There is real danger of violence in some of these young men that come seeking safe haven. Their reason for coming to Paris was never benign. And the migrant coming to kill people had a cell in Paris waiting for him. This is not a minor issue.
But, the one way to understand the care taken with refugees to the USA is to put it on film. The State Department needs a good documentarian, quite frankly. I am sure the vetting process may also turn up questionable folks. That should be known, too.
