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Refugee ‘Religious Test’ ... Federal Law Requires It
National Review ^ | 11.18.15 | by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

Posted on 11/18/2015 9:01:14 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

Under federal law, the executive branch is expressly required to take religion into account in determining who is granted asylum.

Under the provision governing asylum (section 1158 of Title 8, U.S. Code), an alien applying for admission must establish that ... religion... was or will be at least one central reason for persecuting the applicant.

Moreover, to qualify for asylum in the United States, the applicant must be a 'refugee' as defined by federal law. That definition (set forth in Section 1101(a)(42)(A) of Title , U.S. Code) also requires the executive branch to take account of the alien's religion: The term 'refugee' means (A) any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality ... and who is unable or unwilling to return to ... that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of ... religion ...[.]

The law requires a 'religious test.' And the reason for that is obvious. Asylum law is not a reflection of the incumbent president's personal (and rather eccentric) sense of compassion. Asylum is a discretionary national act of compassion that is directed, by law not whim, to address persecution...

In the case of this war, the Islamic State is undeniably persecuting Christians. It is doing so, moreover, as a matter of doctrine...While there is no question that ISIS will kill and persecute Muslims whom it regards as apostates for refusing to adhere to its construction of Islam, it is abject idiocy to suggest that Muslims are facing the same ubiquity and intensity of persecution as Christians.

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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Obama is an idiot.


21 posted on 11/18/2015 9:47:26 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: scooby321

“Obama read the law there is a Religious Test”

Yeh you have to be a muzzie.


22 posted on 11/18/2015 9:47:51 AM 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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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Majority of Americans have no idea what the law is on immigration. And they don’t give a damn. Americans are so uninformed that all they know is toys and games.


23 posted on 11/18/2015 9:48:26 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

BFL


24 posted on 11/18/2015 9:52:04 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Is it me?

Am I the only one that this is the stupidest president we’ve ever had.

No president can have all the facts at the tip if his fingers but anyone with 1/2 a brain would know enough to keep his mouth shut before talking about something he is obviously not familiar with.

.


25 posted on 11/18/2015 9:52:05 AM PST by Mears
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I wouldn’t let any of them in. Christian or not. It was a stupid thing for Bush to say.


26 posted on 11/18/2015 9:54:19 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Yashcheritsiy

PFL


27 posted on 11/18/2015 9:55:17 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy (Ben Carson - the safe space candidate)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

This totally needs to get out there to support Cruz. Media is all over him for suggesting religious test.


28 posted on 11/18/2015 9:57:37 AM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Just heard Rush go over this a few minutes ago.


29 posted on 11/18/2015 10:10:39 AM PST by Freemeorkillme
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To: Mears

You wrote: “Is it me?

Am I the only one that this is the stupidest president we’ve ever had.

No president can have all the facts at the tip if his fingers but anyone with 1/2 a brain would know enough to keep his mouth shut before talking about something he is obviously not familiar with.”

Here’s the truth: Obama is a lazy, arrogant, immature, self-centered faggot choomer who was chosen to be put in place as the front man who would push through the progressive globalist left’s (Soros & Co.) agenda. He’s a muslim stooge with dark, dirty and foul secrets that have to be kept hidden.

The machine that put him in the White House and enables him to do their bidding is led by the little rat Valerie Jarrett who commands an army of lawyers and legislative experts that know how to pervert, twist and take advantage of our American system to achieve their goals. It is truly diabolical.

We blame Obama who is being paid and perked for being the lightning rod with his pen and his phone. But understand... he’s just the Organ Grinder’s monkey, dancing to the tune of the Grinder’s Muslim Call to Prayer.

Which is why it is absolutely VITAL to our country’s future that the next president must be strong as Hercules to pull this cancerous machine out by the roots — and not be hesitant to apply chemotherapy and radiation wherever needed.

I believe a Trump/Cruz team can do it. I HOPE a Trump/Cruz team can do it.

Trump has the balls of a bull, and Cruz has the intellectual legislative know-how to undo all the damage this regime has done. I think together they’ll make a formidable eradication machine, beating back the Left into their crap-filled holes.


30 posted on 11/18/2015 10:11:56 AM PST by patriotgal1787 ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: V_TWIN

WRONG: That would exclude Jewish refugees.


31 posted on 11/18/2015 10:13:23 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Wait, didn’t they just tell us horrible and anti-religious that was?

Of course they’ve been using a religious test, to keep out Christians.

Well now it’s too late for me. I want them all kept out. I want all immigration stopped. Refugees stopped. No one in. Not right now. Start vetting the ones already here.


32 posted on 11/18/2015 10:17:10 AM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I say any military aged men wanting asylum should get RFID chipped....put that out there...(hmph) why not? if they have nothing to hide...


33 posted on 11/18/2015 10:18:23 AM PST by ATINIHCTOLTECA
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Somebody tell that phony constitutional scholar that he is uninformed on this matter too. If I were as clueless as he is, I wouldn’t reveal it in front of TV cameras.


34 posted on 11/18/2015 10:21:52 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Read Write Repeat

“No Syrians. I don’t care what religion they are.”

Listened to some o-hole on right-wing radio this morning telling the DJ that to NOT let Syrian “refugees” in would HARM national security, BUT that he’s not partisan.


35 posted on 11/18/2015 10:40:03 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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Hiring a Muslim where he/she might come in contact with pork products like bacon, if driving a taxi the rider might be refused because he/she has liquor on their breath or job entails delivering liquor or pork products....>B>"...in a lawsuit over their former employer's failure to accommodate their religious beliefs, and a jury awarded the pair a combined total of $240,000 in compensatory and punitive damages and back pay. " plus teachers, MSM, Obama, pander to Islam giving it legitimacy while removing any mention of God from schools, public places etc.

Take a stand Americans, fight back, Muslims are not our friends...they want to kill you and me and there is no doubt about that....every terrorist act is by some Muslim.

36 posted on 11/18/2015 10:49:42 AM PST by yoe
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I just read that section of the law quoted in the article. Religion is a part of it but it’s part of an OR statement (this, this, this or this). It’s not the religious test the article’s author makes it out to be.


37 posted on 11/18/2015 10:53:09 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Leftists are ok imposing a religious test on Christians...they fine them when they don’t do business for gays and jail them when they don’t marry gays.


38 posted on 11/18/2015 10:54:37 AM PST by RginTN
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

You have to ask yourself, what would be B. Husseins reaction if most of these refugees were Jews or even Christians? Why do I get the feeling he wouldn’t be so eager?

Oh yes, and remember when he said the refugees were “women and orphans”? According to the UN refugee agency, 62% are MEN. Look at “demographic” on bottom right.....

http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php


39 posted on 11/18/2015 11:08:41 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Terrorists don’t need nuclear weapons to destroy America when America is committing national suicide with this “compassionate refugee” nonsense.

People don’t understand what kind of “Christians” they want to let in. Many are socialists and communists.

One example:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/whos-oppressing-palestinian-christians-georgetown-lecture-blames-israel-2


40 posted on 11/18/2015 11:10:30 AM PST by Read Write Repeat (Not one convinced me they want the job yet)
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