Posted on 11/18/2015 9:01:14 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Under federal law, the executive branch is expressly required to take religion into account in determining who is granted asylum.
Under the provision governing asylum (section 1158 of Title 8, U.S. Code), an alien applying for admission must establish that ... religion... was or will be at least one central reason for persecuting the applicant.
Moreover, to qualify for asylum in the United States, the applicant must be a 'refugee' as defined by federal law. That definition (set forth in Section 1101(a)(42)(A) of Title , U.S. Code) also requires the executive branch to take account of the alien's religion: The term 'refugee' means (A) any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality ... and who is unable or unwilling to return to ... that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of ... religion ...[.]
The law requires a 'religious test.' And the reason for that is obvious. Asylum law is not a reflection of the incumbent president's personal (and rather eccentric) sense of compassion. Asylum is a discretionary national act of compassion that is directed, by law not whim, to address persecution...
In the case of this war, the Islamic State is undeniably persecuting Christians. It is doing so, moreover, as a matter of doctrine...While there is no question that ISIS will kill and persecute Muslims whom it regards as apostates for refusing to adhere to its construction of Islam, it is abject idiocy to suggest that Muslims are facing the same ubiquity and intensity of persecution as Christians.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Come on. Zero doesn’t obey the laws whether he reads them or not.
“...whether he reads them or not.”
He can read?
Good article, Andrew, but I wish this information was written a couple of days ago to BLUNT Obama before he could say anything! As usual, the good guys are a day late and a dollar short.
I got the perfect test.........ham sammich. :)
How about this:
No More “Refugees”
Period
No Syrians. I don’t care what religion they are.
There should be a moratorium on legal immigration for at least five years so we can sort out who is here.
We cannot afford to assign a FBI agent to every single immigrant when we take in over one million legal immigrants every year.
It’s like conservatives want to lose elections and grow government every time I read one of these “oh the poor christians!” articles.
If you take out all the Christians from an Arab country, then you get Lebanon all over again.
Well I have yet to see Obama demonstrate that he is very smart.
Rush lead off his show with this article
Turkey, where did all your native born Christian populations go?
I like your poster ...but even a simple question ...
why aren’t other Islamic countries accepting the all the Islamic refugees?...
E.g., the author says:
Under the provision governing asylum (section 1158 of Title 8, U.S. Code), an alien applying for admission must establish that ... religion... was or will be at least one central reason for persecuting the applicant.
The actual, unedited text is:
To establish that the applicant is a refugee within the meaning of such section, the applicant must establish that race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion was or will be at least one central reason for persecuting the applicant.
The full text can be read here:
why aren't other Islamic countries accepting the all the Islamic refugees?...
Do we have no one, no one at all, watching over these things in government, to protect our nation and 'folks', to know and follow our laws?
It is excruciatingly obvious that Hussein learned COTUS only and primarily to skirt and trash it.
Not until after the fact.
“””Do we have no one, no one at all, watching over these things in government, to protect our nation and ‘folks’, to know and follow our laws?”””
Nope. The Congress Critters and their staff are far too busy campaigning for the next election than to be bothered with holding the Executive Branch accountable.
Besides, it is no fun to be the police.
This religious test has been made very difficult to pass. We take in very few religious refugees, whether they’re Christians fleeing the Middle East, Jews fleeing persecution wherever they are coming from, or religious minorities escaping persecution in the subcontinent.
That kind of kills it for Ofail.
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