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Exclusive: U.S. Will Now Let in Thousands of Syrian Refugees
Foreign Policy ^ | August 08, 2013 | John Hudson, Noah Shachtman

Posted on 08/08/2013 4:42:34 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing

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 Syrian refugees who have been permanently 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecable.foreignpolicy.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; jordan; lebanon; nationalsecurityfail; obama; randsconcerntrolls; refugees; russia; syria; syrian; waronterror
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Is this because our economy is doing so well? /s Hey America!!!, stay tuned for more Boston Bombings coming to a town near YOU!
1 posted on 08/08/2013 4:42:35 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Holy crap! They’re doing exactly the same thing the leftists did in Europe. Play by play!


2 posted on 08/08/2013 4:43:42 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Awesome. Do they get to bring their rocket launchers with them?


3 posted on 08/08/2013 4:43:46 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The refugees, mostly women and children

Hopefully Christian or soon to be Christian once they hear the “word.”


4 posted on 08/08/2013 4:45:27 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Wonder how many AQ operatives will be coming in with them.


5 posted on 08/08/2013 4:45:41 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Invade the world
Invite the world
In hock to the world


6 posted on 08/08/2013 4:45:51 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

What could go wrong???/s


7 posted on 08/08/2013 4:47:46 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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"mostly women and children"

"mostly women (named Achmed) and children (with beards)"

8 posted on 08/08/2013 4:49:48 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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Obama is letting in al Qaeda, after giving them
MANPADs to also take in through the open borders.

The US Congress is whoring, drunk, and screwing the public.

This will not end well.


9 posted on 08/08/2013 4:50:44 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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There may be Al Qaeda but I am not sure they have to wait for this to come in. They can just walk across the border


10 posted on 08/08/2013 4:51:33 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Good news for the 24 hours cable news networks that cover attacks and disasters in America. Lots of ratings being imported in. I don’t know about bringing all of these cowards here who are afraid to fight for their own country though. I doubt if they’d ever stand up and fight for America either.


11 posted on 08/08/2013 4:52:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Senator Foghorn says, You should never resist being raped, robbed, beat down or murdered.)
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If anybody deserves asylum, it’s whites in South Africa who are being brutally murdered and driven from their farms.


12 posted on 08/08/2013 4:52:18 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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“Awesome. Do they get to bring their rocket launchers with them?”

No just housewares (pressure cookers, fertilizers and such).


13 posted on 08/08/2013 4:52:46 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: plain talk
There may be Al Qaeda but I am not sure they have to wait for this to come in. They can just walk across the border

Why walk, when you can fly (probably first class) on the Great Satan's dime?

14 posted on 08/08/2013 4:54:26 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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mostly women and children - who do they think they are kidding??

Once in their radical relatives will follow - more for the Muslim Trojan Horse.

15 posted on 08/08/2013 4:55:04 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Oh goody...just what we need...the Muslim version of Jimma Carter's Cuban boat lift....wonder if he'll clean out his jails as well.
16 posted on 08/08/2013 4:55:29 PM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: CivilWarBrewing

2,000 more perpetually outraged possible terrorists. Way to go Barry.


17 posted on 08/08/2013 4:55:44 PM PDT 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: CivilWarBrewing

As long as they let in the Christians fleeing persecution by the “rebels” I’m all for letting in Syrian refugees — the big Arab Christian population in Wichita came here the last time the Sunnis in that part of the world decided to persecute Christians (look up a life of St. Joseph of Damascus). I have a feeling, though, I’ll end up being against the policy when they just let in Sunnis.


18 posted on 08/08/2013 4:57:06 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Democrat voters!!! Yeah.


19 posted on 08/08/2013 5:01:01 PM PDT by liberty or death
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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 U.S. is so screwed...

20 posted on 08/08/2013 5:02:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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