Republican Lawmakers Call on Obama to Halt Syrian Refugee Program
Cindy Saine CAPITOL HILL— Returning to Capitol Hill Monday, many U.S. lawmakers said the political landscape has been altered by Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris. "Paris changes everything,” said...
View ArticleA cascade of states are now refusing to accept Syrian refugees
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jindal speaks at the the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition Forum in Des Moines A slew of states said Monday that they will not accept refugees fleeing the civil...
View ArticleU.N. urges compassion for refugees in wake of Paris attacks
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations on Monday urged countries to treat refugees with "compassion and empathy" after deadly attacks in Paris sparked some European demands to halt an influx of migrants...
View ArticleJindal, 24 other US governors say no to Syrian refugees
After the Paris terrorist attacks, governors of at least 24 U.S. states, all but one of them Republican, including Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal, have announced they will not accept...
View ArticleWary governors halt, question plan to accept Syrian refugees
Several U.S. governors are threatening to halt efforts to allow Syrian refugees into their states in the aftermath of the coordinated attacks in Paris, though immigration experts say under the Refugee...
View ArticleIn Illinois, Gov. Rauner suspends accepting new Syrian refugees
WASHINGTON – In the wake of the Paris attacks, Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday said Illinois will “temporarily suspend” accepting new Syrian refugees, putting him at odds with President Barack Obama. In...
View ArticleSeveral governors shutting their doors to Syrian refugees.
11 sitting governors are refusing to allow Syrian refugees into their states in response to Friday’s attack in...
View ArticleGovernors Express Opposition to Syrian Refugee Resettlement
View photo. Republican presidential candidate, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. (AP Photo/John Raoux) As of Monday afternoon, the...
View ArticleAfter Paris attacks, Alabama and Michigan won't take Syrian refugees
The terrorist attacks in Paris Friday have ignited Republican opposition to letting Syrian refugees secure asylum in the United States – with two governors speaking out against resettling Syrians in...
View ArticleObama rips GOP for shutting door to Syrians
WASHINGTON — President Obama responded angrily Monday to opponents of admitting Syrian refugees to the U.S., taking aim at some GOP presidential candidates for...
View ArticleFour U.S. states shut doors to Syrian refugees after Paris attack
By Scott Malone (Reuters) - Texas and Arkansas on Monday joined two other U.S. states that have said they will no longer accept Syrian refugees, contending that allowing in people from that war-torn...
View ArticleUS Republicans seek to shut door on Syrian refugees; Donald Trump says would...
Reuters More than a dozen state governors refused on Monday to accept Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, part of a mounting Republican backlash against the Obama administration's plan to accept...
View ArticleSeven US states shut doors to Syrian refugees after Paris attack
Five US governors on Monday said they would not allow Syrian refugees to be settled in their states, joining Alabama and Michigan and contending it is too dangerous to let in people from that war-torn...
View ArticleCalifornia, Bay Area politicos won't shut the door on Syrian refugees
Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris have some governors and presidential candidates clamoring to keep refugees from war-torn Syria out of the United States, but California and Bay Area officials say...
View ArticleGutierrez: Rauner's ban on Syrian refugees 'cowardly'
WASHINGTON – Rep. Luis Gutierrez on Tuesday ripped Gov. Bruce Rauner’s move to ban, for now, Syrian refugees from Illinois as “despicable and cowardly and precisely the kind of reaction ISIS wanted.”...
View ArticleRepublicans object to more Syrian refugees entering US
More than half of America’s states are refusing to accept Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks as Republican presidential contenders propose restrictions on Muslims seeking refuge in the...
View ArticleChris Christie's Comments On Syrian Refugees Are An 'Embarrassment To This...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) had choice words Tuesday for Republican politicians who are trying to keep Syrian refugees out of the U.S. De Blasio specifically went after New Jersey Gov. Chris...
View ArticleTennessee GOP Lawmaker Wants To Round Up All Recent Syrian Refugees In The State
A top Republican leader in Tennessee not only doesn't want Syrian refugees coming to his state, but he also wants to round up and kick out all recent refugees from the war-torn country. "I'm not...
View ArticleUS Responds to Blow-Back on Syrian Refugees
Pamela Dockins, Nike Ching STATE DEPARTMENT— President Barack Obama’s administration is defending plans to admit thousands of Syrian refugees to the United States this year, in the wake of blow-back...
View ArticleWhy the Syrian refugee issue turned partisan so quickly
Since Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, Republicans and Democrats have shown that they can at least mourn together. Beyond that, deep partisanship has quickly set in, particularly on US plans to...
View ArticleObama Decries 'Offensive' Comments on Syrian Refugees
Pamela Dockins, Nike Ching STATE DEPARTMENT— President Barack Obama said Wednesday that comments about Syrian refugees made by some U.S. politicians were "offensive" and "hysterical." Speaking on the...
View ArticleRepublicans to Obama: Keep Syrian refugees out
Washington (CNN)Republicans are putting President Barack Obama and his party on the defensive over accepting Syrian refugees, following reports that one of the terrorists involved in the Paris attacks...
View ArticleDemocratic candidates open to Syrian refugees after Paris attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on Tuesday voiced willingness to accept Syrian refugees, siding with President Barack Obama and providing a...
View ArticleObama Says Debate on Syrian Refugees Feeds Anti-U.S. Propaganda
President Barack Obama said the increasingly rancorous U.S. debate on Syrian refugees feeds Islamic State propaganda that the U.S. and its European allies are at war with the Muslim world. For the...
View ArticleHow The Paris Attacks Turned Anti-Refugee Sentiment Into Full-Blown Hysteria
Simmering anti-refugee sentiment in the U.S. has blown up into full-fledged xenophobic hysteria since Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris. The assaults -- conducted largely, it is believed, by French...
View ArticleProspect of Syrian refugees on Long Island prompts bipartisan concerns (Pete...
(Source: Pete King) Republicans and some Democrats stepped up calls for President Barack Obama to stop, or at least pause, his plans to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States next year, with...
View ArticleThe GOP and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
If anyone wonders how and why the United States refused to admit very many Jewish refugees from Germany in the late 1930s and during World War II, the GOP's response to the Syrian refugee crisis is...
View ArticleKerry Criticizes Effort to Stem Refugee Flow Into US
Pamela Dockins STATE DEPARTMENT— U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday responded to criticism from U.S. lawmakers, governors and presidential candidates questioning the Obama administration’s...
View ArticleJeb Bush, Ted Cruz suggest religious test for refugees: Only Christians allowed
Top Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz, in response to the deadly concerted Paris attacks on Friday, have suggested that a religious test determine future refugee immigration...
View ArticleEntering the U.S. as refugees would be the hardest way for would-be terrorists
Washington (CNN)Even before the debris from the Paris terrorist attacks was swept away, politicians began sounding the alarm that Syrian refugees could be a national security threat to the United...
View ArticleRauner Can't Close Border to Refugees, But He's Not Powerless
On Monday, Gov. Bruce Rauner joined a wave of American governors who announced their states would no longer accept Syrian refugees due to security concerns after the Paris terrorist attacks. On...
View ArticleNY Gov. Cuomo declares support for accepting Syrian refugees
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Rejecting Syrian refugees would be akin to "conceding defeat of the American dream," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday in a sharply worded response to those urging him to keep...
View ArticleFaith groups react to efforts to keep Syrian refugees out of the U.S.
One day after more than two dozen governors announced they would bar Syrian refugees from living in their states, leaders from a variety of faith groups called for continued resettlement. Support for...
View ArticleThese Governors Refuse to Accept Syrian Refugees Into Their States
By John Walker November 16, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - In the wake of the Paris attacks, some United States governors are refusing to cooperate with President Barack Obama’s response to the...
View ArticleObama Mocks Anti-Refugee GOP: 'They're Worried About 3-Year-Old Orphans'
President Obama criticized Republican presidential candidates Tuesday for stoking "hysteria" over Syrian refugees. Sidebar GOP Politicians Rejecting Refugees Sound Like Racist Trolls » "We are not...
View ArticleUS Governors Balk at Syrian Refugee Plan in Wake of Paris Attacks
VOA News At least ten U.S. governors are balking at letting Syrian refugees settle in their states in the wake of the Paris attacks, even as President Barack Obama said Monday he has no intention of...
View ArticleHouse lawmakers likely to vote Thursday on Syrian refugee bill
WASHINGTON — U.S. House lawmakers are likely to vote Thursday on a bill that would "pause" the country's refugee program. The move comes as more than two dozen governors said they would block the entry...
View ArticleColumn: The Syrian Refugee Crisis’s Impact on America’s National Security...
(Source: Scott Tipton) By Congressman Scott Tipton I take issue with President Obama and Governor Hickenlooper's refusal to address the realities of the national security risks posed by the federal...
View ArticleU.S. states shut door to refugees fleeing ISIS and the war in Syria
When reports emerged that one of the Paris attackers may have made his way to France disguised as a refugee, the governor of one of the few U.S. states that has already opened its door to dozens of...
View ArticleParis, Christian compassion, and the debate over refugees
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks by ISIS in Paris last Friday, the news here in the United States is the reaction of presidential candidates and governors to the tragedy. An article in...
View ArticleMomentum builds among states to reject Syrian refugees after Paris attacks
A drumbeat of opposition against allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S. intensified Monday when at least 16 governors, citing security concerns, said they will refuse to accept Syrian refugees into...
View ArticleHow 10,000 Syrian Refugees Got Caught Up in U.S. Partisan Fight
The plight of Syrian refugees seeking entry to the U.S. erupted into a political controversy after last week’s attacks in Paris stoked concerns that terrorists might hide among people fleeing from war....
View ArticleSome governors halt, question plan to accept Syrian refugees
DETROIT (AP) — Several U.S. governors are threatening to halt efforts to allow Syrian refugees into their states in the aftermath of the coordinated attacks in Paris, though an immigration expert says...
View ArticleRepublican lawmakers take aim at Syrian refugee plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan called Tuesday for a "pause" in Syrian refugees coming to the U.S. in the wake of the Paris attacks, and assembled a task force to bring legislation to a vote...
View ArticleSyrian refugees are not a threat to U.S.
(CNN)The fact that one of the Paris terrorists was posing as a Syrian refugee has caused some to ask whether one of the lessons of the Paris attacks is either to end or to "pause" accepting Syrian...
View ArticleIt Took America 72 Hours to Invoke Internment Camps for Syrian Refugees
In just three days, the rhetoric over the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States has devolved from caution to calls for internment camps in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. “Why do...
View ArticleAs refugees ostracized, a Syrian family finds peace in the U.S.
For Damascus resident Ali, life in Syria was an existence torn between two extremes. On the one hand, things were going well. Ali owned his own home, a car and even a furniture shop, which provided...
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