David_42
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GOP fear mongering never stops..
Here's the most offensive GOP response to Obama's new Syrian refugee plan so far.
Here's the most offensive GOP response to Obama's new Syrian refugee plan so far.
Rep. Peter King (L), and Syrian children at a makeshift camp for asylum seekers in southern Hungary, on Thursday. Wikimedia Commons/Muhammed Muheisen/AP
As my colleague Tim McDonnell reported earlier today, the Obama administrationhas announced that the United States will take in 10,000 Syrian refugees starting October 1, in what the White House described as a "significant scaling up" of the US commitment to the ongoing migrant crisis.
Cue the terrorism-conflating saber-rattling of one Congressman Peter King (R-N.Y.), who issued the following statement this afternoon:
There's evidently much wrong with King's statement, not least of all the fact that the Tsarnaev brothers who bombed Boston spent time growing up in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, and were part of a family originally from war-torn Chechnya. Not Syria.
It also takes a long time for a Syrian refugee to apply for a coveted spot in the United States—precisely due to the fact that the United States is going to extraordinary lengths to prevent terrorists from slipping in, according to theWashington Post: