Posted on 08/08/2013 3:11:11 PM PDT by Hojczyk
With conditions continuing to deteriorate in Syria, the Obama administration is making a major policy shift by agreeing for the first time to allow thousands of new Syrian refugees into the United States, The Cable has learned.
The numbers are relatively small: just 2,000 refugees, compared to an estimated two million people who have fled Syria during the civil war. But it's a significant increase from the 90 or so permanent Syrian refugees who have been admitted to the U.S. in the last two years. And it's not entirely uncontroversial. The refugees, mostly women and children, will be screened for terrorist ties -- a process that could take a year or more to complete.
Unlike previous efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to give temporary protected status to Syrians already in the United States, the State Department effort will bring in Syrians from overseas for permanent resettlement in America.
"Referrals will come within the next four months. We will need to interview people and perform security and medical checks," Kelly Clements, the State Department's deputy assistant secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration, tells The Cable.
While aid workers welcome the decision to let in more refugees, concerns remain about the time it will take to process the applications and move them into the U.S. "It's 90 degrees now, but in a few months it's going to snow and people are going to be freezing," Noah Gottschalk, Oxfam America's senior humanitarian policy advisor, told The Cable. "They don't have many options and many are living in unfinished buildings, abandoned shopping malls, schools, mosques and parking garages."
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That is our team Obama!
USA!
USA!
Screw the USA!
More welfare cases who hate America.
0bama's buddies.
These 2000 you can bet won’t be the Marionite Catholics that are being slaughtered , it will be the ones doing the slaughtering
ANYBODY still think this guy is not a muslim waging jihad on this country ?
Have the neocons shown up to tell all how hard working wonderful pro-family these people are?
If one’s goal is to rule the world with Islam, this is another way to bring down the US. Infiltrate, infiltrate, infiltrate. Just another trojan horse.
We need to see this,correctly,as the purposeful dilution of our social fabric. It is National Suicide!
No sane civilization invites cultural destruction.
The traitor is surely within.
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