Posted on 06/15/2016 6:47:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The U.S. has admitted about 4,000 Syrian refugees, the State Department said Wednesday. That's a higher number than was believed, but still well short of the goal of 10,000 refugees by the end of September.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said the number of refugees admitted is "up around 4,000 now." The most recent number had been 2,500 refugees.
The plan to admit 10,000 refugees, which President Obama proposed in September, has been met with contempt from Republican lawmakers who claim accepting these refugees is a threat to national security.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was one of 31 governors to protest the admission of Syrian refugees last fall, and voiced Republicans' concerns that "opening our door to [the refugees] irresponsibly exposes our fellow Americans to unacceptable peril."
The State Department maintains that each refugee is thoroughly vetted before being granted entry into the U.S., even if it slows the process down.
According to the State Department, "the total processing time varies depending on an applicant's location and other circumstances, but the average time from the initial [U.N. Refugee Agency] referral to arrival as a refugee in the United States is about 18-24 months."
Kirby said the department "take[s] the goal that the president set very seriously" and will make good on the promise come the end of September.
In a few months Syria will be empty
If the gov’t won’t track these refugees, then a shadow detective force aught to be started up to do the job our fed refuses to do.
How many will rape infidel women and kill homosexual infidels?
Damn this government. Against the will of the people. Citizens no longer have representation in this government.
They talk about bringing a few thousand. I believe they plan to bring hundreds of thousands.
And none of them Christians, if it can be avoided.
Its demographic engineering.
They were thouroughly vetted means they filled out a questionaire.
This does not count all the others he has been bringing in each week since he got elected .
They are all over the place and they are not here to fit in .
Immigration policy should always serve the interests of citizens. It never does, of course. What is different about this regime is that under them it has been weaponized.
Big deal , Trudeau rushed 25,000 to Canada in 2 months
God help me but I wish that guy on Saturday night was a Syrian Refugee........then MAYBE this country would get serious. I know that sounds awful but right now the country is NOT taking Saturday night seriously at all. We need a big “hit in the face” to wake up these folks. Seriously I don’t know what else it would take.
True
and I’d say most are in the US right now
“How many will rape infidel women and kill homosexual infidels?”
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Surprisingly, and equally sad, all the popular ‘champions of women’s rights’ and ‘keepers of LGBT rights’ are curiously silent about the Federal Government doing this.
Untold numbers of rapes, murders, property damage, corrupting the culture, etc., doesn’t faze them at all. Terrorist attack after terrorist attack still sends them to their politically correct safe space.
We’re not going to get them out without a lot of bloodshed...
Has anyone posted this? It hits really close to home for me.
Last year we got a bunch of Somalis. I see them at Walmart with their baskets overflowing and pay with their EBT cards.
Ooops...link:
Obama turning red states blue methodology .......
Amarillo Texas SWAT killed a Somalis that went all jihadi on his boss yesterday in a ......walmart.
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