A New House Bill on Syrian Refugees Doesn’t Protect Americans

National Review ^ | November 19, 2015 | Senator Jeff Sessions

[rmlew]

The current proposal being considered in the House of Representatives in response to the president’s dangerous refugee plan — the American SAFE Act — fails to defend the interests of the American people. It is based on a flawed premise, as there is simply no way to vet Syrian refugees. Just over a month ago, officials from the Department of Homeland Security admitted before the Immigration Subcommittee that there is no database in Syria against which they can run a check. They have no way to enter Syria to verify the applicants’ personal information. And we know the region is being flooded with false documents.

Moreover, when the administration was asked if Syrian refugees could end up coming to the United States and joining ISIS like Minnesota’s Somali refugees, the answer was blunt: “We can’t predict the future.” Each year, the U.S. permanently resettles more than 100,000 Muslim migrants inside the United States. In just the past year, refugees and migrants allowed into America from Bosnia, Somalia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ghana, Kuwait, and Bangladesh have been implicated in terrorism. And, as we have seen, the U.S.-born children of migrants are also at risk for radicalization.

[rmlew]

No. It is good election politics to have something.

[rmlew]

Of course, the Kentucky Resolutions were used to keep the US government from stopping the importation of potentially dangerous foreigners.

[Fightin Whitey]

It is good election politics to have something.

Has it ever occurred to you that it would be even better election politics to have the RIGHT thing?

[Amendment10]

"Of course, the Kentucky Resolutions were used to keep the US government from stopping the importation of potentially dangerous foreigners."

Yes, taking the time to amend the Constitution to grant the feds the power that they urgently need to address time-critical issues is a problem. And you would think that the states would have addressed such problems by now. But the states have been asleep at the wheel as evidenced by the unconstitutionally big federal government.

As a side-note about delays, I understand that the Allied invasion of Normandy was successful because Hitler was at a weekend birthday party for one of his generals, corrections welcome. The front-line German soldiers had to leave a message on Hitlers answering machine. /sarc

[Amendment10]

Regarding the corrupt federal governments welcoming of unwelcome Syrian refugees, note that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson warned that the corrupt federal government takes advantange of questionable situations to unconstitutionally expand its powers.

• ”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” - James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)

• ”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” - Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.