Posted on 08/21/2015 8:06:59 PM PDT by Whenifhow
The State Department is anticipating that the U.S. will admit up to 8,000 Syrian refugees in Fiscal Year 2016.
In written responses to the Senate Judiciary Immigration and the National Interest Subcommittee Republicans obtained by Breitbart News, the State Department reveals that it is expecting the U.S. will accelerate its acceptance of Syrian refugees next year.
“As of July 30, the United States has admitted 1,042 Syrian refugees in FY 2015 and anticipates admitting a total of 1,500-1,800 Syrians this fiscal year. We anticipate admitting 5,000-8,000 Syrian refugees in FY 2016,” the State Department wrote.
The Obama administration’s effort to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S. has come under fire as a potential national security risk.
As Breitbart News has reported, House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) has pressed the administration on the possibility that foreign fighters could use the program to gain entry to the U.S.
“There is a real risk that individuals associated with terrorist groups will attempt to exploit the refugee resettlement program in order to gain entry into our country. Terrorist networks are constantly probing our defenses and would not hesitate to manipulate a program meant to save those fleeing violence for the purpose of infiltrating operatives onto American soil,” McCaul wrote in a letter to Obama in June.
In written answers to the immigration subcommittee, the State Department acknowledged that it could not, with 100 percent certainly, say that ISIS or other terror organizations would not be admitted in the process but said its current screening efforts have been successful in the past.
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> It’s about to start happening big-time. Germany and others are demanding we starting taking our share. The UN wants us to take hundreds of thousands of them.
Its time to take care of our own house. The UN needs to FO. The next president needs to close the UN chapter in the NYC and tell them not to come back. No Muslim immigrants at all. Even “Christian” refugees should be looked on with suspicion in the even the Muzzies try to pull a fast one.
CHRISTIANS ONLY !
A UN committee chooses who comes here as refugees. They choose Muslims from the ME and Africa... people who often hate us and our culture.
Democrats love giving our country the finger... that’s why they set it up this way.
Absolutely! I agree! Unfortunately, the president we have right now wants to fundamentally destroy America. This clown moved the National Day of Prayer from the premises of the White House in 2009. He celebrates Ramadan there twice per year. He’s more muzzie friendly than Christian or Jewish friendly.
He doesn’t care what we think. He wants more muzzies dumped on us. It makes him feel more at home.
I agree. The un is fully on board with the destruction of America.
These immigrants are what our founders warned us about, this is
why immigration is SUPPOSED to be managed by our Congress. But when
Congress embraces this insurrection and treasonous act, who can stop them?
The National socialists really want their revolution. If it happens they
will be the first to die.
These islamists are the Kings men we were warned about.
The U.N. is rife with terrorist supporters and Obama is their friend.
The united Nations directs immigration of reugees and they are gung ho Muslim. I wonder if the idea is to spread Islam.
Strange that this part of his candidacy never made the MSM. He is not only our first black president; he is our first Muslim one, too.
He is much closer to the muzzies than he is to Christians.
I wish Trump or one of them would go after all the refugees from muzzie countries being dumped on us. That needs to become an issue.
Europe is in current meltdown because of it. We need to stop it now.
IBD Opinion: Trump would crack down on Muslim immigration
Excerpt:
Citing national security, Trump would stop the flood of immigrants from Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Syria and other Muslim countries posing a terrorist risk.
“Additionally,” he said in his five-page immigration reform proposal, “we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm.”
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