Posted on 09/14/2016 10:14:16 AM PDT by Theoria
The Obama administration wants the U.S. to increase the number of refugees it takes in next year to 110,000.
"Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers the administration wants to admit 110,000 international refugees in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1," As NPR's Scott Horsley tells our Newscast unit. "That's up from 85,000 refugees in the current year."
Kerry made the remarks to members of Congress on Tuesday, a senior administration official told NPR.
The administration had previously proposed resettling 100,000 refugees total in 2017, as NPR has reported. This increase, the administration says, "is based on the belief that all countries should do more to help the world's most vulnerable people," Scott adds.
It's not yet clear how many of the target 110,000 refugees will be Syrian. The U.S. has exceeded its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrians refugees to the U.S. this fiscal year, as we reported. That number now stands at 11,503, according to government figures.
The issue of resettling Syrians is politically divisive. Advocates say resettlement candidates already go through an exhaustive screening process and that the U.S. should be doing more to help people fleeing war. Opponents say these refugees could pose a security threat.
Republican vice presidential candidate and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is trying to block state aid for Syrian refugees already in Indiana, as Scott reports.
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Obama also said he felt that America could “absorb” another mass-casualty terrorism attack.
Vote Trump.
In your neighborhood and county and you have to pay for it.
Provided Trump settles them all in Georgetown, Hollywood and the Upper East Side.
This is just an attempt to destroy the Red States.
110,000 parasites living off the American tax payer for the rest of their lives.
Parasites who will contribute nothing, nothing, nothing.
Goldman Sachs is salivating at the prospect.
FUBO.
NO.
Thank God you and your ilk will be flacking your wares in some European paradise after you get kicked out of DC.
I hear lake Como is nice....
Disgusting POS...Let them go to Dubai...they aren’t doing a damn thing to “help”.
Obama also said he felt that America could “absorb” another mass-casualty terrorism attack.
I remember that. He tries to minimize, in his idiot believers minds, any damage that could or would come to America.
Obama is a Jive Talking Hustler Evil POS..
This twisted America-hater continues to change our American demographic for POWER at the voting booth. Nothing else matters in America to him.
If Trump wins we should close down the Gov’t to stop this. The public will understand.
Is Obama really trying to help Trump with his doofus policies and announcements like this?
But will he stop the influx of the Muslim horde?
No, because then he will go down a martyr.
I would prefer he go down naturally, like acquiring AIDS or syphilis.
As long as they’re all placed in Hi, or Martha’s Vineyard I don’t see a problem.
I looked at the current map. No rapfugees are going to Delaware or Hawaii.
That boat will get turned right around at port as soon as Trump is sworn in.
[[Parasites who will contribute nothing, nothing, nothing.]]
Oh they will contribute alright
rape
murder
beatings
theft
drug dealing
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