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11-15-2015, 03:47 AM #1
Syria refugee crisis: U.S. opens centres to speed vetting
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Syria refugee crisis: U.S. opens centres to speed vetting
Screening outposts to be set up in Iraq, Lebanon as U.S. urges Arab nations to do more
The Associated Press Posted: Nov 06, 2015 7:33 PM ET Last Updated: Nov 07, 2015 7:55 AM ET
Refugees and migrants arrive from the island of Lesbos to the port of Piraeus on Friday. About 25,000 refugees and other migrants are heading to the Greek mainland from the eastern Aegean islands after the country's seamen's union called off rolling, 48-hour ferry strikes. (Thanassis Stavrakis/Associated Press)
The Obama administration is moving to increase and accelerate the number of Syrian refugees who might be admitted into the United States by opening new screening outposts in Iraq and Lebanon, administration officials told Reuters on Friday.
The move comes after President Barack Obama pledged in September to admit an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees in 2016, torn by four years of civil war and disorder.
The U.S. State Department confirmed the plans to open a refugee settlement processing centre in Erbil, Iraq, before the end of 2015, and to resume refugee processing in Lebanon in early 2016, said spokeswoman Danna Van Brandt.
The White House would not say how many additional refugees it may take in beyond the 10,000, but two senior administration officials said they are seeking ways to increase the number.
Suitable for resettlement
"We want to be in a place where we can push out really ambitious goals," said one of the officials, who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity.
The State Department runs nine screening centres worldwide that serve as meeting points for refugees and U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees who have to decide who is suitable for resettlement in the United States.
The additional centres will double the number available to refugees in the Middle East.
Most Syrians are now screened for potential U.S. resettlement at centres in Istanbul and Amman, Jordan. The new centres are designed to "increase the channels" the United States has for reaching Syrian refugees, the official said.
Amid a tide of refugees in Europe, some congressional Democrats and refugee advocates say the United States should do more for Syrians who often make dangerous journeys to lands where they have no home or means of employment.
However, some Republicans have raised concerns that allowing more Syrians into the United States jeopardizes national security.
Arab, BRIC nations urged to do more
In another development, Anne Richard, U.S. assistant secretary of state, told C-SPAN's Newsmakers program on Friday that wealthy Gulf Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar as well as the so-calledBRICs emerging market nations should do more to help Syrian refugee.
"I would like to see more aid come from the Gulf states that are in the Middle East area and are relatively wealthy compared to Jordan and Lebanon," she said. "We would also like to see more from the so-calledBRICs — Brazil, Russia, India, China and, to a lesser extent South Africa," she added. "These are the wealthy states that care about the region that could and should be doing more on the humanitarian side."
About 250,000 people have died and an estimated four million driven abroad as refugees because of the Syrian conflict, which began in 2011 with protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which has evolved into a full-blown civil war. The majority of the refugees have flowed into neighbouring nations such as Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon but hundreds of thousands have also made their way to Europe.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/syria-r...tres-1.3308576
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11-15-2015, 01:52 PM #2
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72 CONGRESSMEN SENT A LETTER on 9/11/15 (9/11 how ironic) TO OBAMA ASKING FOR 200,000 SYRIAN REFUGEES TO BE BROUGHT TO THE USA - LINK & EXCERPT FROM LETTER BELOW. Would send ALL congressmen and senators a negative response on bringing refugees here.
EXCERPT - "We agree with the Refugee Council's USA recent recommendation that the United States resettle a minimum of 200,000 refugees by the end of 2016, including 100,000 Syrian refugees.
Link to letter thru this article if you want to read the whole letter and see all the reps names)
http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/09/...rian-refugees/
Also, below is a list of senators from a May '15 letter asking for more refugees.
EXCERPT: "greatly increase the number of Syrian refugees who are resettled in our country" May 21 2015
Richard Durbin Amy Klobucher Patrick Leahy
Dianne Feinstein Patty Murray Robert Menendez
Sheldon Whitehouse Jeanne Shaheen Al Franken
Christopher A Coons Tim Kaine Edward J Markey
Sherrod Brown Mazie K Hirono
letter was sent to Obama w cc John Kerry Jeh Johnson
AND last week, NY senator gillibrand called for 1.5 million refugees to be taken in.
http://pamelageller.com/2015/11/new-...migrants.html/
It is almost impossible to email thru the reps website because most only allow emails if you have a zip code in their area. There is a site open congress.org, link below
https://www.opencongress.org/people/representatives
you can email ANY senator or congressman thru their system. Click on the senator link if you want to email them. You have to sign up and register with them - free.
Once they bring them here, they will not be going back and they will find jobs for them, welfare and will have many babies resulting in large families, plus eventually their siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins. Next they will want sharia law etc......
EU is done! They have allowed way to many muslims there and what are they going to do now? Will they put them in camps as enemies of war on their soil? For how long? How will they ever contain or change the situation they created and have allowed to continue. There is NO changing those muslims! And that is what O, these reps, senators, UN are creating for our future in USA.Last edited by artist; 11-15-2015 at 02:16 PM.
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