Posted on 11/15/2015 10:08:54 AM PST by jazusamo
A top White House adviser said Sunday that President Obama still plans to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees even as Republicans insisted that it's all but impossible to stop terrorists from hiding among the migrants.
"We're still planning to take in Syrian refugees," Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said on "Fox News Sunday."
One of the terrorists in Friday's deadly attacks on Paris reportedly may have used a Syrian passport to enter Europe with a flood of refugees, but Mr. Rhodes expressed confidence in the background-check system.
"We have very robust vetting procedures for those refugees. It involves our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism Center, extensive interviews, vetting them against all the available information," Mr. Rhodes said.
Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican who heads the House Homeland Security intelligence subcommittee, called that statement "untrue."
"There's virtually no vetting because there are no databases in Syria. There are no government records. We don't know who these people are," Mr. King said on "Fox News Sunday." "And when you meet with the people doing the vetting, they tell us that."
"They [the White House] are rolling the dice here, and we know that ISIS wants to bring in terrorists with these refugees," Mr. King said.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who is seeking the GOP's presidential nomination, agreed that "the problem is not the background checks, the problem is that we can't background-check them."
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The Kenyan! What a guy! Bringing our own killers to us. What a country!
IMPEACHABLE
IMPEACHABLE
If you believe the US govt has any way to vet these roaches you are brain dead. I don’t care if they do vet them we don’t need 10,000 more Muslims colonizing the US.
Ridiculous, make what everyone of them do and become part of the Obama legacy.
I bet the 10,000 number is way low.
Has anyone heard anything from Obama since the Paris attack? He’s usually quick to comment on any mass-casualty attack, adding some politically inflammatory remark to the devastation.
There was no way this unrepentant piece of America hating Marxist sh*t was gonna change his mind.
Couldn’t agree more, it’s only the start.
I think he was on a mike somewhere blabbering about all the different kinds of shrimp there are and how to cook them.
Rolling the dice suggests they are trying to win something valuable. I can't imagine what it would be, other than the banal goal of 10,000 more illegal Democrat votes for next November.
None dare call it treason, except Ted Cruz and Donald Trump...
None dare call it treason, except Ted Cruz and Donald Trump...
I thought we just got 15,000 in Louisiana. What am I missing here?
President Obama Offers a Statement on the Attacks in Paris. Watch Here
I liked the one commenter quoting Lord Farquaad from ‘Shrek’, “Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”
ISN’T there ANYTHING we can do to stop this??????
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