Democrats call for more refugees, shorter screening period .
Oct 3, 2015 11:52:35 #
Senate Democrats on the committee, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Al Franken, D-Minn., asked almost no questions during the rare oversight hearing and used their time to comment on the tear-jerking photos of refugees in Europe.
Klobuchar said she was very proud of the Vietnamese and Somalis who came to Minnesota as refugees and are now a very important part of the fabric of our state. She did not mention the more than 50 Somalis who have left or tried to leave the country to try to join the ranks of foreign Islamic terrorist organizations, nor did she mention the dozens of others who have been tried and convicted in her state for offering material support to Islamic terrorist organizations.
The Democrats focused their emotion-based stories of desperate women and children seeking a better life, when the U.N. statistics show that 75 percent of the migrants flooding into Europe are men between the ages of 18 and 45.
Blumenthal said hed like to see the screening process, which now lasts 18 to 24 months, dramatically shortened and reformed.
My feeling is the American people still believe that we are the nation of the Statue of Liberty, that we have arms open for people that want to come here to escape persecution and conflict, Blumenthal said.
No mention of persecuted Middle East Christians
No mention was made at Thursdays hearing by any member of the Senate about the persecuted Christian minorities in Iraq and Syria. As many as 350,000 Christians have been forced to flee their homes, their property stolen, their wives and daughters raped and sold into sex slavery, often after watching their husbands beheaded or shot.
WND has previously reported that 95 percent of the more than 1,650 Syrians who have come to the U.S. since the beginning of Syrian civil war have been Muslim and less than 4 percent have been Christian.
The Democrats on the committee also pointed out that 18 mayors including Rahm Emanuel of Chicago have signed a letter asking the Obama administration to resettle Syrian refugees in their cities because refugee make their cities stronger economically and socially.
Faith leaders want more Muslim refugees
Another letter, signed by 144 faith leaders, was sent to Obama asking that the government not restrict the number of Muslim refugees allowed into the country from Syria or elsewhere.
Franken also talked about the photo of the drowned boy whose body washed up on shores of Greece and how it reminded him of his grandson.
Many of our partners in the EU are formulating a plan to redistribute 120,000 migrants, he said. The U.S. on other hand has only accepted 1,500 Syrian refugees (actually the number has now exceeded 1,650), although the administration plans to up that to 10,000. I joined with my colleagues, Senator Durbin and others, asking for 65,000 by end of 2016.
Besides security, Sessions said the cost of the refugee program is staggering. The cost of administering the program is more than $1 billion a year, but that doesnt include the billions spent on government assistance programs and lost jobs for Americans.
The costs are much greater Mr. Kerry than you suggested in your statement. While we had 18 Democrat mayors asking President Obama to send more Syrian refugees to their cities, homelessness has doubled in the United States. Every new dollar spent on refugees is essentially borrowed because its new expenses and we dont have new revenue to pay for it. There is homelessness in New York City, joblessness, so I would say someone else needs to help (the refugees). I dont accept the idea that we arent doing our fair share. We have been very generous.
The U.S. has granted $4.5 billion in aid to Syrian refugees since 2012.
Europe should be picking up the largest share of the problem and I dont see it there, Sessions said. And a good policy should be to help keep people close to home, in Yemen, in Libya, in Iraq, so people can go home more easily when the time comes, and weve allowed that to get away from us. We need to look at who are we going to serve and whose interest are we trying to serve?
Klobuchar said she was very proud of the Vietnamese and Somalis who came to Minnesota as refugees and are now a very important part of the fabric of our state. She did not mention the more than 50 Somalis who have left or tried to leave the country to try to join the ranks of foreign Islamic terrorist organizations, nor did she mention the dozens of others who have been tried and convicted in her state for offering material support to Islamic terrorist organizations.
The Democrats focused their emotion-based stories of desperate women and children seeking a better life, when the U.N. statistics show that 75 percent of the migrants flooding into Europe are men between the ages of 18 and 45.
Blumenthal said hed like to see the screening process, which now lasts 18 to 24 months, dramatically shortened and reformed.
My feeling is the American people still believe that we are the nation of the Statue of Liberty, that we have arms open for people that want to come here to escape persecution and conflict, Blumenthal said.
No mention of persecuted Middle East Christians
No mention was made at Thursdays hearing by any member of the Senate about the persecuted Christian minorities in Iraq and Syria. As many as 350,000 Christians have been forced to flee their homes, their property stolen, their wives and daughters raped and sold into sex slavery, often after watching their husbands beheaded or shot.
WND has previously reported that 95 percent of the more than 1,650 Syrians who have come to the U.S. since the beginning of Syrian civil war have been Muslim and less than 4 percent have been Christian.
The Democrats on the committee also pointed out that 18 mayors including Rahm Emanuel of Chicago have signed a letter asking the Obama administration to resettle Syrian refugees in their cities because refugee make their cities stronger economically and socially.
Faith leaders want more Muslim refugees
Another letter, signed by 144 faith leaders, was sent to Obama asking that the government not restrict the number of Muslim refugees allowed into the country from Syria or elsewhere.
Franken also talked about the photo of the drowned boy whose body washed up on shores of Greece and how it reminded him of his grandson.
Many of our partners in the EU are formulating a plan to redistribute 120,000 migrants, he said. The U.S. on other hand has only accepted 1,500 Syrian refugees (actually the number has now exceeded 1,650), although the administration plans to up that to 10,000. I joined with my colleagues, Senator Durbin and others, asking for 65,000 by end of 2016.
Besides security, Sessions said the cost of the refugee program is staggering. The cost of administering the program is more than $1 billion a year, but that doesnt include the billions spent on government assistance programs and lost jobs for Americans.
The costs are much greater Mr. Kerry than you suggested in your statement. While we had 18 Democrat mayors asking President Obama to send more Syrian refugees to their cities, homelessness has doubled in the United States. Every new dollar spent on refugees is essentially borrowed because its new expenses and we dont have new revenue to pay for it. There is homelessness in New York City, joblessness, so I would say someone else needs to help (the refugees). I dont accept the idea that we arent doing our fair share. We have been very generous.
The U.S. has granted $4.5 billion in aid to Syrian refugees since 2012.
Europe should be picking up the largest share of the problem and I dont see it there, Sessions said. And a good policy should be to help keep people close to home, in Yemen, in Libya, in Iraq, so people can go home more easily when the time comes, and weve allowed that to get away from us. We need to look at who are we going to serve and whose interest are we trying to serve?
Oct 3, 2015 12:07:18 #
cant beleve
Loc: Planet Kolob
The darn Christians that support this insanity are going to have to answer to a higher being. In my opinion they are being an accessory to genocide.
Oct 3, 2015 12:10:44 #
cesspool jones
Loc: atlanta
CharlesRabb wrote:
Senate Democrats on the committee, Dick Durbin, D-... (show quote)
If they refuse to fight for their own personal well being...then we don't need them around. Can any of these douchbag democraps figure our who's who and who ain't?...didn't think so
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