Posted on 09/11/2015 3:27:03 PM PDT by robowombat
Senator Lindsey Graham: we need to bring in our “fair share” of Syrian Muslims
Posted by Ann Corcoran on September 11, 2015
If you are looking for answers about how South Carolina has become a target for refugee resettlement where the Governor (Nikki Haley) and even Rep. Trey Gowdy*** are obviously reluctant to stand up and question the choice of the state as fresh territory for third world resettlement (colonization!), look no further than the senior senator of the Palmetto State.
Do Haley and Gowdy jump when Lindsey says jump?
Editor’s note: There will be hundreds of articles in the coming days about the Syrian refugee numbers to be admitted to the US (Obama said 10,000 yesterday, but I suspect that is a trial balloon). We will post the ones that are the most informative we find. Like this one!
Lindsey+Graham+Patrick+Leahy+Senate+Judiciary+yYt1OjAjOPAl Pals! Leftist Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and SC Senator Lindsey Graham. Will they team up to free emergency funds to bring Syrian Muslims to your towns and cities? Graham was one of 4 Republicans promoting amnesty as part of the infamous ‘Gang of Eight’ Senators in 2013. His position on more immigration has been very clear. Somehow South Carolina had dodged a bullet over the years as surrounding states of North Carolina, Kentucky and Georgia have been flooded with refugees.
All that is changing (see our archive on the controversy in Spartanburg) and it sure looks like the driver behind that change is none other than SC senior Senator Lindsey Graham. See his asinine and ill-informed comment about the Statue of Liberty and how America has to take it’s “fair share” of Syrian, mostly Muslim, refugees. What the hell! We had nothing to do with the Syrian civil war, why should any be our “fair share.”
(Now, if Graham is talking about Syrian Christians, he better get the backbone to use the word — Christian!)
The US has long been the leading nation permanently resettling refugees from every continent on the globe—over 100,000 Iraqi Muslims from the Middle East in the last 8 years—-isn’t that enough for the Senator?
From The Fiscal Times in an article entitled, ‘Can the U.S. Handle 100,000 Syrian Refugees?’ (emphasis below is mine):
While much of Washington is occupied with the Iran nuclear deal, another debate is looming about whether the U.S. should open its doors to more refugees from the Syrian civil war.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina raised the possibility on Tuesday that Congress might approve emergency funding to greatly increase the U.S. quota for Syrian refugees in the face of an historic migrant crisis in Europe and the Middle East.
During an appearance before the National Press Club, Graham became the first GOP presidential candidate to urge the Obama administration to accept its “fair share” of Syrian refugees, amid international criticism that the U.S. is grossly shirking its responsibility to the international community. In a fit of melodrama, Graham said that “we should take the Statue of Liberty and tear it down” if the U.S. preserves its current, highly restrictive immigration policies with regards to victims of Syrian violence.
Graham is chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, which means he has some say over the budget for the State Department and other international agencies. He said he would be in favor of “emergency spending” to cover the cost of bringing substantially more Syrian immigrants to the U.S., which would add to the federal deficit. He said he would confer with Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on his subcommittee, to sound him out on a possible bipartisan proposal.
“I don’t just want to pick a number,” Graham said, according to Roll Call. “I don’t know how many we should take, I don’t know how much money we should spend, but I know we should take our fair share and we need to spend more to get ahead of this.”
The U.S. currently allows the immigration of no more than 1,500 Syrians a year [inaccurate information—ed] – a miniscule number in the face of the millions of refugees streaming out of Syria, headed for Germany and other European countries. The United States Committee for Refugee and Immigrants has urged the administration to accept 100,000 Syrians in the coming year. [Dumb reporters quoting, as some sort of authoritative voice, a non-profit resettlement contractor which is being paid by the head to resettle refugees!–ed]
*** Rep. Trey Gowdy is chairman of the House subcommittee responsible for refugees and we will be watching closely to see if he calls for hearings when Obama sends his “Determination Letter” to Congress for consultation sometime in the next week or two. Fiscal year 2016 begins on October 1, so by law Obama must send it! The big question is, what can Congress do about it? The key committees in the House and Senate could at minimum hold hearings. And, please don’t tell me that Gowdy has too much going on with Benghazi to spend a little time on this infinitely more important issue—how many Syrian Muslims will we drop off in your towns!
Excellent idea!!!
How many will we be sending back? Let's do it quickly, wouldn't want them to get used to living here.
How many other Arabs will we also be sending back?
Those who advocate this crap should be the first to suffer from the refugee terrorists.
‘We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.’
Ann Coulter 2001
Oh, and keep them out of here.
Donald Trump Breaks Lindsey Graham Like a Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3PQOP6eax8
How many ISIS fighters, Taliban and how man Al Quaeda does he want included in the mix? House them with each member of Congress and in the WH or maybe in the Hamptons.
To have out fair share we would have to eject the ones that are here and import no more!
How many would be Syria’s “fair share” ?
Sure Grahamesty. As long as they all live at your house.
If we're going to help, it should be done there, where they live under tyranny. If they don't want the help, or don't want to live there, I'm not sure half the globe away is the place. Europe seems to be stepping up, with objections. Maybe Turkey will accept them. Putin has too much sense, as do most Arab states. Turmoil is a good thing, and nothing creates it like refugees.
Didn’t some of the 9 11 terrorists come from Syria?
Why would we chance adding anymore to our population.
Not an isolationist, but they can come the normal way and get in line after real vetting.
Exactly
And lets not forget saying no when Obama said it either.
Linda Graham and his elitist buddies: Hatch, Grassley, McCain, McConnell, Corker, etc.
when did this whole notion that foreigners are entitled residency in the USA simply because they are foreigners, begin?
my own USA citizenship apparently means nothing. if our “rulers” are telling me that foreigners have as much right to be here as i do, then what’s the point of citizenship at all?
Just how many will lindsey put in his neighborhood...NONE. The guy is such an idiot.
Did the president make up the term “fair share”? I never heard it before he took office.
This guy is a straight-on traitor.
WTF
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