Posted on 02/17/2015 5:50:17 PM PST by Beave Meister
Top U.S. counterterrorism officials say they worry a potential terrorist could be hiding among refugees who are looking to come to the United States after escaping the brutal war in Syria.
"It's clearly a population of concern, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Nicholas Rasmussen, told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, went further, saying it would be a huge mistake to bring refugees from the conflict to the U.S. even as an estimated 4 million children, women and men have been forced to flee Syria and another 7 million have been displaced from their homes there, unable to leave.
Senior officials leading the State Departments refugee efforts say the U.S. government has a long history of caring for the innocent victims of war.
Its not a matter of should we do it, its really a matter of how we do it, Larry Bartlett, the State Departments director of Refugee Admission for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, told ABC News. One of the fundamental principles of our country is that we care about others. We will help others.
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Is water wet?
If they’re Christians, I’m all for it. Even the Yazidis and other minorities.
However, I know better to think it’ll be nothing but Muslims.
“Its not a matter of should we do it, its really a matter of how we do it, Larry Bartlett, the State Departments director of Refugee Admission for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, told ABC News. One of the fundamental principles of our country is that we care about others. We will help others.
government stooge. yeah, we care more about these poor Syrians than we do about the welfare and protection of the American citizenry.
Really? Perhaps there's a list of "fundamental principles" known only to the State Department. If so, I'd like to read it.
This is liberal-speak for "we want to do it and you're a bad person if you even question it." In short, it's crap.
“...a potential terrorist could be hiding among refugees...”
DOH!!!...(why didn’t I think of that? /s)
Americastan is here and thriving. Seldom can I go to the local Mall without see a group (or two) of tents with eyes and a bearded handler following. I always look the handler in the eye and snicker. Just my subtle way of protesting.
We’re training them to kill first.
Obama is ISIS.
Yes, of course he's letting them in. It's his jobs program.
Obama did not become President to help Citizens of the United States
Put them all in NYC!
Helping him cinch up his homicide vest?
How true it is!
Bringing them here is insane. At what point does BHO endanger our country so badly they have to just physically remove him from office? Its almost getting to the point of treason.
This is why B. Hussein Obama does dot refer to terrorists as Islamic. Since he is bringing so many here he needs to downplay this as not alarming. it’s all just strategy.
This is not incompetence. This is very deliberate.
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