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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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To: CivilWarBrewing

Jordan?
Saudi Arabia?
Singapore???

How many damn nations with that crescent moon in their flag are there that they cant take in their Muslim “brothers”?

Nah! We can take them in!


21 posted on 08/08/2013 5:02:34 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: CivilWarBrewing

2 bombers shut down the greater Boston area.

Only 2,000 Syrians?

Good thing we beat terrorism... What? Oh.


22 posted on 08/08/2013 5:03:54 PM PDT by Noamie
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23 posted on 08/08/2013 5:04:03 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Wow, it’s almost as if it had been planned this way!

/feigned surpise


24 posted on 08/08/2013 5:06:48 PM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Meanwhile a Christian Germany family seeking asylum in American in order to home-school their children was rejected.
25 posted on 08/08/2013 5:09:44 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Meanwhile a Christian Germany family seeking asylum in America for the freedom to home-school their children was rejected.
26 posted on 08/08/2013 5:10:17 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
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To: CivilWarBrewing

And existing American citizens still can’t visit their own White House. FUBO and congress.


27 posted on 08/08/2013 5:11:58 PM PDT by soycd
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Have the neocons shown up to tell all how hard working wonderful pro-family these people are?


28 posted on 08/08/2013 5:13:45 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Dallas59

They will be checked for RPGs. I they don’t have them, State Dept will give them each one. /s


29 posted on 08/08/2013 5:17:03 PM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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All Part of the Muslim in Chief’s plan.


30 posted on 08/08/2013 5:17:18 PM PDT by thegrump
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Oh yeah, team Obama/Jarrett/Hitlery/Kerry/Holder are REALLY gonna do some screening to make sure terrorists don't get in.

You know, like they did in Boston, when the Russians warned us about those two Muslims who killed people at the marathon.


31 posted on 08/08/2013 5:20:32 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

No!

Not that anyone asked my permission.


32 posted on 08/08/2013 5:21:41 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

voting privileges will be given to the “refugees” who are probably all MB sympathizers...I was predicting this months ago...along with other people,,no surprise


33 posted on 08/08/2013 5:23:50 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: CivilWarBrewing

It seems so incredibly simple. Let Muslim countries take in Muslim refugees. We already take in more than our fair share without putting the country at such great risk.

But no....


34 posted on 08/08/2013 5:26:27 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: CivilWarBrewing

To obtain welfare from those that are working. Or it comes from Obama’s stash. Or someplace.


35 posted on 08/08/2013 5:27:11 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: thegrump
"All Part of the Muslim in Chief’s plan."

At every turn Obama favors the Islamists and weakens the US. He is also arming Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood trying to overthrow Assad. If Assad falls, hundreds of thousands of Christians in Syria will have to flee or be killed. You won't hear about the plight of the Christians in Syria any more than he is worried about the slaughter of the Copts in Egypt.

36 posted on 08/08/2013 5:30:56 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: CivilWarBrewing

No prob, as long as they’re settled in Georgetown.


37 posted on 08/08/2013 5:32:25 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: 9YearLurker

“...without putting the country at such great risk.”

That worked out real well with the Iraqis who helped blow the Murrah Bldg in OKC.

We’re so infiltrated and compromised now, on every imaginable level, that when the tens/hundreds-of-thousands of terrorist sleepers get the “go orders”, TSHTF.


38 posted on 08/08/2013 5:34:56 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The USA is going to hxll in a hand basket because of so-called wealthy elites and limousine NYC liberals who not only own the lib Party, but have it by the bxlls, as well as their politicians. They are intent on dividing and conquering us, and taking our firearms too, just as Pat Buchanan and others have enumerated many times.


39 posted on 08/08/2013 5:36:44 PM PDT by apoliticalone
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I am so angry about this I can’t come up with the proper cure words to express myself!


40 posted on 08/08/2013 5:42:04 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Oh Crap!)
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