Posted on 11/15/2015 10:08:54 AM PST by jazusamo
A top White House adviser said Sunday that President Obama still plans to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees even as Republicans insisted that it's all but impossible to stop terrorists from hiding among the migrants.
"We're still planning to take in Syrian refugees," Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said on "Fox News Sunday."
One of the terrorists in Friday's deadly attacks on Paris reportedly may have used a Syrian passport to enter Europe with a flood of refugees, but Mr. Rhodes expressed confidence in the background-check system.
"We have very robust vetting procedures for those refugees. It involves our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism Center, extensive interviews, vetting them against all the available information," Mr. Rhodes said.
Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican who heads the House Homeland Security intelligence subcommittee, called that statement "untrue."
"There's virtually no vetting because there are no databases in Syria. There are no government records. We don't know who these people are," Mr. King said on "Fox News Sunday." "And when you meet with the people doing the vetting, they tell us that."
"They [the White House] are rolling the dice here, and we know that ISIS wants to bring in terrorists with these refugees," Mr. King said.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who is seeking the GOP's presidential nomination, agreed that "the problem is not the background checks, the problem is that we can't background-check them."
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“There’s virtually no vetting because there are no databases in Syria. There are no government records. We don’t know who these people are,” Mr. King said
Uhhhh. . . sounds like what TRUMP has been saying over and over again, BUT he said it FIRST.
Jindal is catching it from the People...big time.
Some want to outright kill em all right now.
Other, more passionate types, want him to load em on buses and dump em out on the National Mall, preferrably the WH.
They’re raising holy hell with him.
What has or will Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan do about this?
Will they be looking at the invaders as cheap labor?
Indeed. Probably less than a dozen terrorist shut down France....imagine what 10,000 blood thirsty killers could do to the USA.
How are they gonna bet 10,000 people?
It will be over a million that he brings over. Don’t let that 10,000 fool you.
Liberals never admit they’re wrong. No matter how many people they get killed.
The right needs to harp on the safety angle 24/7 regarding this insanity.
They’ll let the left control the narrative again.
“The right needs to harp on the safety angle 24/7 regarding this insanity.”
Absolutely. It’s a no-brainer that it would be the thing to do going into this election but most of all for the good of our country and all Americans. Even a lot of Dems are fed up with his supporting muslims and terrorists, they realize it’ll take actions and not words to defeat their barbarism.
And yet the Left will spin it to pin it on patriots. Just like this administration spun Benghazi.
After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding this
to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our turn is
coming again soon. We stand united against Islamic
extremists, oxymoron or not.
That's pretty obvious BS.
Exactly...Rhodes is more full of crap than a Christmas goose.
Agreed, but that and not the good of the country is what is on his mind as I see it.
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