Posted on 11/16/2015 2:09:56 PM PST by Isara
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| Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz speaks to the audience during his event in the pavilion at Sun City Hilton Head the morning of Nov. 16. Delayna Earley |
During a campaign stop in Sun City Hilton Head Monday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz condemned President Barack Obama's plan to accept up to 10,000 Syrian refugees following the attacks in Paris.
The plan "is nothing short of lunacy," Cruz, a presidential contender, told an overflow crowd of hundreds at the community's pavilion.
"This is a humanitarian crisis. There are genuine refugees that need to be cared for, but they should be resettled in the Middle East in majority Muslim countries," Cruz said to raucous applause from the crowd.
Cruz lends his voice to a growing number of governors and legislators condemning the refugee program after reports that at least one of the terrorists involved in Friday's attacks was a recent Syrian immigrant to France.
Now many Republican lawmakers are speaking out against U.S. participation in the federal program amid concerns it would not be able to screen refugees with ties to ISIS, Cruz said.
Monday, Gov Nikki Haley said she is talking with federal officials about Syrian refugees entering the United States, adding that she is unaware of any Syrian refugees in South Carolina and any plans to bring them here.
But, she said, if any plans are developing to bring them to South Carolina, "we'll put a stop to it."
Cruz sounded a similar sentiment Monday.
"Every one of us, our hearts grieve for the people of France, for the mothers and fathers, the sons and daughters who have lost their lives," he said. "And yet that attack underscores the vicious hatred of those who would seek to kill us."
Obama and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton refuse to address ISIS as "radical Islamic terrorism," crippling the U.S. response, Cruz said.
"France was not attacked by some sort of abstract violent extremists," he said. "The last I checked, those plans that flew into the Twin Towers weren't piloted by a bunch of ticked off Presbyterians.
"We cannot defeat radical Islamic terrorism as long as we have a president unwilling to utter those words," he said.
This week Cruz said he plans to push Congress to consider a bill he filed last year that would revoke U.S. citizenship for anyone who seeks to join a foreign terrorist organization, such as ISIS.
"ISIS has been very clear that they intend to do in America what happened in Paris," Cruz said. "If we simply allow them to come in and wage jihad, (it) is an act of colossal foolishness."
The attacks against Clinton and Obama earned Cruz repeated bursts of applause and shouts of approval from the Sun City crowd, which has repeatedly asked visiting GOP presidential candidates about the threat of ISIS this summer and fall.
In the wide-ranging speech, Cruz also discussed his flat-tax plan, out-fundraising Jeb Bush and continued to jab the other Republican candidates for supporting any measure of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Last week, he and Sen. Marco Rubio, who was visiting Hilton Head Island, traded barbs over their illegal immigration policies. Both argue that current federal immigration rules must be enforced before larger reforms are approved.
At the same time Cruz addressed the media in Sun City, Iowa Rep. Steve King announced he has endorsed Cruz -- expected to buoy Cruz's showing in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses next year.
After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.
Some music for reflection if the mood strikes you.
Courtesy of: Kartographer
beautiful [02:23]
An honorable mention also goes out to Lassana Bathily , a Muslim immigrant from Mali.
Mr. Bathily sheltered customers at the Jewish Deli and helped police by providing info
on the terrorists, and providing the location of survivors in the deli.
Courtesy of: Tijeras_Slim
Sun City of what state?
Good. The more the media dumps on him for this, the more I will support him.
Probably SC.
“..”ISIS has been very clear that they intend to do in America what happened in Paris,” Cruz said. ..”
Americans don’t want the U.S. to have jihadist terrorist’s training camps all over the country.
Some are already here, and who knows how many more are coming.
Call your congresspeople and U.S. senators, and tell them to stop this insanity.
Terrorism would be only the beginning of the problem with these refugees. They will bring Islam into our communities, a religion that would not have allowed the USA to become the prosperous, tolerant nation that it is today. They will consume vast amounts of welfare spending, and anyone who pulls-out the compassion card is free to contribute to helping them in their own lands.
Sun City Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Obama wants to empty Gitmo and empty the jails dumping criminals back on the country and world. He wants to bring refugees here to take our jobs and also threaten our lives.
Too bad it isn’t Fl. My 83 year old aunt would be there.
Dumping a bunch of non-whites into the population to threaten and attack whites serves Obama’s agenda perfectly.
Sun City Hilton Head
South Carolina.
Obama has, and will have more, blood on his hands.
In case you missed it:
“November 16, 2015
Gov. Abbott: Syrians Are Crossing Our Southern & Northern Border
Today on The Laura Ingraham Show, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) discussed the decision to, in light of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, refuse the resettlement of Syrians in Texas. Gov. Abbott is one of six governors - Govs. Snyder (R-MI), Bentley (R-AL), Jindal (R-LA), Hutchinson (R-AK), and Pence (R-IN) - who have issued statements halting the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their state, seeking to prioritize the safety of American residents. Although the Obama administration has repeatedly referenced a “robust vetting†system for Syrian refugees, Abbott said these claims directly contradict the FBI director who has admitted the government does not have the ability to conduct security checks on Syrian nationals (snip)”
The above states might be the safest states to live in, although the above governors can only do so much, since our president won’t tell them what is going on.
I just heard that AZ will join these states.
Accept only Christians.
Didn’t Obama transplant a large amount of Mexicans who illegally crossed the border to undisclosed locations in the U.S. What is going on? Is he a Dictator?
Obama gets away with being a dictator because the majority of Republicans don’t fight him, and the majority of judges don’t honor the Constitution.
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