Posted on 08/04/2016 8:12:27 AM PDT by Perseverando
After a sluggish start, the United States has ramped up its number of Syrian refugee admissions, putting it within reach of meeting President Barack Obama’s goal of taking in 10,000 Syrians by the end of the federal fiscal year.
The surge has included resettling 21 Syrian refugees in the Roanoke region over the past three months, a significant uptick from last year’s total of just two admissions.
Roanoke has long been a hub for arriving refugees, with more than 800 accepted in the past five years, according to U.S. State Department data.
The acceleration of Syrian refugee admissions nationwide comes after Obama pledged to do more in the face of the deepening humanitarian crisis abroad.
The president, who plans to host an international summit on the refugee crisis next month, vowed to take in 10,000 refugees from war-racked Syria by Sept. 30. The commitment was announced weeks before the November attacks in Paris set off a heated political debate over refugee admissions and national security.
Work to meet the goal was slow initially, with federal authorities citing in part the need to comply with a multilayered vetting process that can take up to two years to complete.
But earlier this year, the administration beefed up staffing for the screenings and opened up more processing centers — a “surge operation” that started bearing fruit in May when 1,069 Syrians were resettled in the United States, compared with 1,736 admitted during the seven months prior.
The influx has continued over the objections of Republican leaders who fear the screening process is vulnerable to exploitation by Islamic State forces.
“No matter how many additional staff the Obama administration puts towards vetting, Administration officials, including FBI Director [James] Comey
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Are these families or single men?
Only 9 in Falls Church? Why not have all of them in the counties surrounding Washington, DC? Let the politicians see up close the result of their decisions.
Are these families or single men?
Doesn’t matter. They’ll all have 8 kids and bring in a pile of relatives from the old country. Always x 10 any “refugee” number you see because that is the number of Muzzies that will be here in a decade from this spawn.
Soon the only place that won’t have any muslims will be Syria.
WAIT! Aren’t they supposed to be put on a waiting list for a year or so before they can be seen? While they are waiting, have them wait in their own country.
Why doesn’t ZERO just tuck suitcase nukes under their arms and parachute them in like it’s a D-Day Invasion?
When the Saudis find the money they’ll want to build thousands of Muslim Arsenals ,I mean Mosques all over the US
I cry in sadness, and pray we can undo what our country has become.
There is no doubt that DC will do what it wants whenever it wants, and citizens be damned.
We are so far worse than the reasons we fought for our independence that it is unfathomable.
Knife sales on the rise there?
Great, we’re going there in Sept to visit family.
Good point.
I guess we won’t look anymore at Virginia for relocating from NJ.
wow, 21 migrants
that’s enough for them to demand construction of a mega mosque
There are people in Falls Church who know who these people really are
My spouse used to get his haircut from a refugee who fled Saddam Hussein’s regime to avoid being forced to kill neighbors- he described how Saddam’s people would show up at the door and demand that that the owner go kill someone else in the neighborhood, or have his fmaily raped tortured and killed themselves. It’s how Saddam built his spider web of people who became part of his terror
It’s frightening beyond words that the statements in the graphic you posted are unfortunately accurate.
Yeah, exactly right.
Very creepy.
Wonder how many lying Ryan took in his congressional district?
I’m amazed that they have not started turning up dead here and there. Do they send any to second-amendment friendly states?
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