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And the article is no better - for starters these are not actually "illegal" immigrants at all - they are refugees - if you don't know the difference go do some study on the subject.
marg6043
reply to post by Destinyone
When posters add that type of rhetoric most of the time is to derail threads, is better to ignored to stay on the subject, and I can tell you that the information of whom this refugees are and what they are not is getting bigger and dirtier.
I am surprised that Obama is getting away with this influx of possible terrorist in the nation when he lost most of the support from congress when trying to arm terrorist groups in Syria.
U.S. plans to resettle thousands of Syrians displaced by their country's civil war could hinge on those refugees receiving exemptions from laws aimed at preventing terrorists from entering the country.
A U.S. official stated publicly for the first time this week that some of the 30,000 especially vulnerable Syrians the United Nations hopes to resettle by the end of 2014 will be referred to the U.S. for resettlement.
Did the USA ever reject Irish terrorists?
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
he Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act (Pub.L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. The law was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans, among them Jews who had migrated in large numbers since the 1890s to escape persecution in Poland and Russia, as well as prohibiting the immigration of Middle Easterners, East Asians, and Indians
Lo and behold, this is a good one, U.S. Antiterrorism Laws a Hurdle for Syrian Refugees
neo96
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
And the article is no better - for starters these are not actually "illegal" immigrants at all - they are refugees - if you don't know the difference go do some study on the subject.
Is that right ?
If that is the case we have over 30 million 'refguees' in this country who the current administration wants to make 'legal' after destroying their country.
Oh damn the topic was about Syrians, but it seems to fit Mexico as well.
no it doesn't - the status of refugee is explicit - you are obviously someone who needs to go find out about it so my suggestion still applies - go study it!
CirqueDeTruth
Isn't funny?
The entire world whines and cries about the stupid arrogant Americans. How they want to police the world, control the world, be up in everyone's business....
....We [sic] should be looking for an impartial land, sensitive to their culture, to relocate them to. It doesn't have to be America.
CdT
neo96
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
no it doesn't - the status of refugee is explicit - you are obviously someone who needs to go find out about it so my suggestion still applies - go study it!
Nope.
The simple fact of arming the FSA to fight it's own government makes them illegal,
Arming opposition to a lawful government is ILLEGAL.
Thus making them illegal immigrants.
Authorized by Congress, the CIA has started sending weapons to Syrian rebels. But under a legal definition of terrorism adopted by the U.S. government after the Sept. 11 attacks, those same rebel groups are considered terrorist organizations.
The designation could prevent some of the more than 2 million refugees who have fled Syria from coming to the United States, even if they haven’t actually taken up arms against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Groups that appear on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations have long been banned from entering the U.S. But two antiterrorism laws, the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act, also bar members of armed rebel groups that aren’t specifically designated as terrorist organizations.
The provisions, sometimes known as terrorism bars, apply to all armed rebel groups — even ones the U.S. is actively supporting.
The bars also deny entry to anyone who has given any kind of “material support” — transportation, shelter, money — to such groups.
The U.S. has accepted only 64 Syrian refugees in the last two years, according to a State Department spokeswoman. But it’s unclear how many, if any, Syrians have run afoul of the terrorism bars to date.
Few Syrians have been resettled overall since the conflict began there in 2011. Instead, the United Nations — which refers refugees for resettlement — has focused on aiding the refugees who are still flowing out of Syria into Lebanon, Turkey and other bordering countries.