Thread: House lawmaker wants Syrian, Iraqi refugees to take lie detector tests

Published time: 31 Dec, 2015 03:10

A Republican lawmaker has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives requiring Syrian and Iraqi refugees take lie detector tests before entering the US. Ken Calvert (R-California) is also proposing that potential refugees submit DNA tests.
“It has become all too clear to many Americans that our security screening processes for individuals wishing to enter our country are insufficient,” Calvert said, defending his proposal.

The process currently has nine steps and takes, on average, two years to complete. Less than 1 percent of those in the global refugee population are strong enough candidates for resettlement, according to the White House.

However, Calvert hopes that a lie detector test will improve the quality of refugee applicants, saying, “Peaceful people who wish to come to our country with good intentions have nothing to fear with these additional measures.”

Calvert’s belief in lie detectors is not supported by the American Psychological Association, which asserts, “Most psychologists agree that there is little evidence that polygraph tests can accurately detect lies.”

The cost of lie detector tests may hinder the legislation as well. According to the Global Polygraph Network, lie detector tests in California carry a fee ranging from $475 to $875. With a reported 69,933 resettled refugees entering the United States in the last fiscal year, the minimum (assuming each test cost $475) cost would be over $33 million.

Calvert’s requirements would also apply to any refugee applicant that had visited either Syria or Iraq since March 2011.

This is only the latest manifestation of opposition to refugees from Syria and Iraq since the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California. According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 82 percent of Republicans and 22 percent of Democrats oppose accepting refugees from Syria.

Between December 2013 and today, the United States has received 2,441 refugees from Syria, 44 percent of which were children under 14 years of age. During the same time period, 30,506 Iraqi refugees entered the United States, 29 percent of which were children under 14.

https://www.rt.com/usa/327510-syrian...ees-polygraph/

They should stay and fight for their countries - we don't need them here, another drain. Throw the money instead at safe zones that would be so much more cost effective - @ 12x better.

Once again total disregard for American citizens.

Oh what now? Feeding the lie detector industry at taxpayers expense in addition to all the expense of unneeded unwanted immigration at taxpayers expense? No more Muslims until they fix their filthy terrorist driven Jihadist and Shariah Law promoting religion. American Muslims? Wake Up. Support your country and policies that prevent this foreign Muslimism from invading our country. This is your religion, all these things are done and all the problems created are in the name of your religion which makes it your problem to fix, because it's your religion. I don't support one more dime binge spent on this by US taxpayers.

We shut it down like Trump says which doesn't cost a thing or hurt a soul. It's the only intelligent affordable practical and effective policy that's ever come out of anyone's mouth on this issue. And I could care less if England, Hillary or some terrorist in Somalia agrese with it or not.