Syrian refugees refused

[9thIDdoc]

26 governors are now refusing to let Syrian refugees into their state. Is your state one of them? What are your thoughts?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

26 governors are now refusing to let Syrian refugees into their state. Is your state one of them? What are your thoughts?

We have a DEM governor in Missouri so no sadly we are still taking them.

 

[Grizz]

The sad little truth is that they cannot be "vetted".
Obama counts on his illiterate followers to think tat the middle east keeps the same kind of records that we do.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Fortunately our state voted like this, this year!

Missouri gubernatorial election, 2016 - Wikipedia

Check out the map lol

 

[The Great Goose]

Good because they aren't from Syria.

 

[pismoe]

26 governors are now refusing to let Syrian refugees into their state. Is your state one of them? What are your thoughts?

------------------------------ I think that its a good exclusion policy , who wants a bigger fifth column of Syrian muslims in the USA ?? At 68 years of age I don't think of me , I think of young Americans that will inherit this muslim and importation of the third world into the USA and the West .

 

[waltky]

Granny says the Donald said he gonna put a stop to the influx o' refugees...

How Many Refugees Will US Accept This Year?
June 07, 2017 | WASHINGTON — U.S. officials still can't confirm how many refugees will arrive this fiscal year, with less than four months left and an imminent increase in the works.

The ambitious ceiling of 110,000, set by then-President Barack Obama shortly before the 2016 election has little chance of being met. It would require a massive surge of personnel to pull off in the 16 weeks remaining in this fiscal year, which is an unlikely prospect under an administration calling for significant cuts to the refugee program. And it likely won't be as low as 50,000, the number demanded by President Donald Trump in two executive orders embroiled in legal friction. That number is less than a month away from being reached at the current arrival pace of 866 refugee arrivals a week. Moreover, State Department has indicated that number will grow in the near future — though how much remains unclear.

So where does that leave things?

No one seems to know. It will be more than 46,835 — that's the number of confirmed arrivals as of the afternoon of June 7. The White House did not respond to VOA's request for comment or clarification on whether Trump will issue an overriding presidential determination to lower the ceiling from 110,000. The State Department, which oversees the refugee admissions process in conjunction with other agencies, would not hazard a guess.

Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban, May 15, 2017, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle.​

Predicting the final arrival numbers can be a challenge. The admittance process requires multiple offices within the U.S. government and several UN agencies to identify candidates for resettlement, interview them, vet their security and medical status, and organize their transportation to the U.S. If the current pace stays the same, the U.S. is on track to resettle about 60,700 refugees this fiscal year, down from almost 85,000 last year.

Travel order

For months, as the administration issued a first travel order in January, rescinded it and reissued a second in March, the arrivals numbers bounced up and down, settling ultimately in the 800-900 a week range. Refugee agencies that help resettle new arrivals laid off hundreds of staff members in anticipation of Trump's ordered cuts to the program. “While we expect the number of refugees admitted weekly to rise, we are not in a position to speculate as to the new weekly total or the final number of refugees that will be admitted by the end of Fiscal Year 2017,” a State Department spokesperson said in an emailed statement Wednesday.

Children's drawings that read "Welcome to America, America is a good place," are displayed, April 24, 2017, at a Jewish Family Service Refugee and Immigrant Service Center in Kent, Washington, during a visit by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.​

Trump's executive order, also referred to as the travel ban, called for a temporary stop to refugee arrivals, and the cap of 50,000 for the fiscal year, but judges halted the full rollout of the order and parts of it are headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. On the advice of the Department of Justice, which represents the government in the lawsuits over the executive order, the State Department is processing refugee applications “without regard” to the section of the order that imposed the cap, according to a spokesperson.

How Many Refugees Will US Accept This Year?

 

[waltky]

Granny says dat's 45,000 too many...

U.S. plans to cap refugees at 45,000 in coming fiscal year, according to State Department report
September 27,`17 - The United States plans to accept a maximum of 45,000 refugees in the coming fiscal year, according to a report obtained by The Washington Post, a figure that represents the lowest cap in decades and one that human rights groups quickly condemned.

The State Department and Department of Homeland Security briefed members of Congress on the plan Wednesday. The cap, previously reported by the Wall Street Journal and others, is the lowest since a 1980 law created an organized refugee program. “It’s a devastating blow to the U.S. refugee admissions program and this country’s sense of self and history of compassion in welcoming refugees,” said Naureen Shah, campaign director for the U.S. arm of Amnesty International, which had recommended a ceiling of 75,000. “It feels like a sharp betrayal, pouring gas on the fire that is engulfing the world. We see all over the world, ordinary people are being treated worse than cattle. For the Trump administration to become an accomplice to that is heartbreaking.”

A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said authorities had “every plan to process as many refugees as we can under this ceiling.” A White House official said: “The president’s strategy on refugees is guided first and foremost by the safety and security of the American people. The United States can also help a larger number of refugees by resettling them in their home region and enabling their eventual safe return home.” The cap is for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 and ends Sept. 30, 2018. It calls for the United States to accept 19,000 people from Africa; 5,000 from East Asia; 2,000 from Europe and Central Asia; 1,500 from Latin America and the Caribbean; and 17,500 from the Near East and South Asia.

Religious leaders and activists from the Church World Service hold up a door symbolically closed to refugees during a protest urging Congress to pressure President Trump to allow more refugees to enter.​

To the alarm of some advocates, the report said that when making decisions on whether to admit refugees, U.S. officials would “take into account certain criteria that enhance a refugee’s likelihood of successful assimilation and contribution to the United States.” “I find that really troubling,” said Melanie Nezer, an official with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, one of the nine agencies working with the government to acclimate and resettle refugees. Bill Frelick, director of the refugee program at Human Rights Watch, said that criteria was “completely irrelevant.” “Refugees are often traumatized and would not at first glance appear to be good candidates for immigration because they were selected not based on their immigration criteria, but on refugee needs,” Frelick said. “And yet many of them have proven resilient over time and become very productive members of society.”

A State Department official said: “This is not an additional requirement. Instead, it is an area of discussion that State and [the Department of Homeland Security] are exploring this coming year.” While the cap is low — it represents far less than 1 percent of the 22.5 million people counted as refugees — it does not necessarily reflect the actual number of refugees who are admitted to the United States in a year. That figure fell below 45,000 during several years after the terrorist attacks in 2001. In 2002, refugee admissions plunged to 27,000 from 70,000, and to 28,000 the next year. But since the law that let the president establish the cap, the ceiling has never gone below 67,000, set by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. The annual ceiling has fluctuated between 70,000 and 80,000 in recent years, until growing to 110,000 under President Barack Obama. Trump cut it to 50,000 midway through the current fiscal year.

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Latest travel ban will probably affect tens of thousands, and it could short-circuit the court battle
President Trump’s latest travel ban could block the issuance of tens of thousands of visas each year to people who want to immigrate to the United States or come on business or as tourists, according to a Washington Post review of State Department data, and it is threatening to short-circuit the impending Supreme Court showdown over whether Trump can lawfully impose such wide-ranging travel restrictions.

On Monday, the Supreme Court put off — at least for now — a hearing on Trump’s previous travel ban, asking instead for briefs on whether the latest restrictions mean there is nothing left for the justices to decide. Opponents of the ban, meanwhile, vowed to fight on — asserting that the new measure inflicted some of the same harms of the first and that it was driven by the same discriminatory intent. “For us, this was a Muslim ban, and it remains a Muslim ban,” said Zahra Billoo, the executive director of the San Francisco chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The newest ban is in some ways even more expansive than the last — remaining in effect indefinitely and imposing restrictions on eight, rather than six, countries. But unlike the last ban, the restrictions vary from place to place, and countries that increase their cooperation and information-sharing with the United States might be able to find their way off the list. For Syria and North Korea, the president’s proclamation blocks immigrants wanting to relocate to the United States and non-immigrants wishing to visit in some capacity. For Iran, the proclamation blocks both immigrants and non-immigrants, though it exempts students and those participating in a cultural exchange.

The proclamation blocks people from Chad, Libya and Yemen from coming to the United States as immigrants or on business or tourist visas, and it blocks people from Somalia from coming as immigrants. The proclamation names Venezuela, but it only blocks certain government officials. A Washington Post review of State Department data found that more than 65,000 visas were issued in fiscal 2016 that would now likely fall under the ban. The ban, though, contains a robust list of people who might qualify for a case-by-case exception, including those with significant U.S. contacts or those wanting to visit close family members.

The ban also exempts those already admitted to the United States on the effective date of the proclamation — which, for those not affected by the previous travel ban, is Oct. 18. The Supreme Court had been set to hear arguments on Trump’s previous travel ban, inked in March, but on Monday, it removed that hearing from the calendar and asked for briefs on whether the case was now moot. One significant piece of the previous executive order — the 120-day ban on all refugees entering the United States — remains in effect until Oct. 24. The latest ban leaves unclear what will happen after that. U.S. officials have been discussing possibly lowering the refugee cap for fiscal 2018 to below 50,000. The fiscal year begins Sunday.

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[Meathead]

Granny says dat's 45,000 too many...

U.S. plans to cap refugees at 45,000 in coming fiscal year, according to State Department report
September 27,`17 - The United States plans to accept a maximum of 45,000 refugees in the coming fiscal year, according to a report obtained by The Washington Post, a figure that represents the lowest cap in decades and one that human rights groups quickly condemned.

The State Department and Department of Homeland Security briefed members of Congress on the plan Wednesday. The cap, previously reported by the Wall Street Journal and others, is the lowest since a 1980 law created an organized refugee program. “It’s a devastating blow to the U.S. refugee admissions program and this country’s sense of self and history of compassion in welcoming refugees,” said Naureen Shah, campaign director for the U.S. arm of Amnesty International, which had recommended a ceiling of 75,000. “It feels like a sharp betrayal, pouring gas on the fire that is engulfing the world. We see all over the world, ordinary people are being treated worse than cattle. For the Trump administration to become an accomplice to that is heartbreaking.”

A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said authorities had “every plan to process as many refugees as we can under this ceiling.” A White House official said: “The president’s strategy on refugees is guided first and foremost by the safety and security of the American people. The United States can also help a larger number of refugees by resettling them in their home region and enabling their eventual safe return home.” The cap is for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 and ends Sept. 30, 2018. It calls for the United States to accept 19,000 people from Africa; 5,000 from East Asia; 2,000 from Europe and Central Asia; 1,500 from Latin America and the Caribbean; and 17,500 from the Near East and South Asia.

Religious leaders and activists from the Church World Service hold up a door symbolically closed to refugees during a protest urging Congress to pressure President Trump to allow more refugees to enter.​

To the alarm of some advocates, the report said that when making decisions on whether to admit refugees, U.S. officials would “take into account certain criteria that enhance a refugee’s likelihood of successful assimilation and contribution to the United States.” “I find that really troubling,” said Melanie Nezer, an official with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, one of the nine agencies working with the government to acclimate and resettle refugees. Bill Frelick, director of the refugee program at Human Rights Watch, said that criteria was “completely irrelevant.” “Refugees are often traumatized and would not at first glance appear to be good candidates for immigration because they were selected not based on their immigration criteria, but on refugee needs,” Frelick said. “And yet many of them have proven resilient over time and become very productive members of society.”

A State Department official said: “This is not an additional requirement. Instead, it is an area of discussion that State and [the Department of Homeland Security] are exploring this coming year.” While the cap is low — it represents far less than 1 percent of the 22.5 million people counted as refugees — it does not necessarily reflect the actual number of refugees who are admitted to the United States in a year. That figure fell below 45,000 during several years after the terrorist attacks in 2001. In 2002, refugee admissions plunged to 27,000 from 70,000, and to 28,000 the next year. But since the law that let the president establish the cap, the ceiling has never gone below 67,000, set by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. The annual ceiling has fluctuated between 70,000 and 80,000 in recent years, until growing to 110,000 under President Barack Obama. Trump cut it to 50,000 midway through the current fiscal year.

MORE

See also:

Latest travel ban will probably affect tens of thousands, and it could short-circuit the court battle
President Trump’s latest travel ban could block the issuance of tens of thousands of visas each year to people who want to immigrate to the United States or come on business or as tourists, according to a Washington Post review of State Department data, and it is threatening to short-circuit the impending Supreme Court showdown over whether Trump can lawfully impose such wide-ranging travel restrictions.

On Monday, the Supreme Court put off — at least for now — a hearing on Trump’s previous travel ban, asking instead for briefs on whether the latest restrictions mean there is nothing left for the justices to decide. Opponents of the ban, meanwhile, vowed to fight on — asserting that the new measure inflicted some of the same harms of the first and that it was driven by the same discriminatory intent. “For us, this was a Muslim ban, and it remains a Muslim ban,” said Zahra Billoo, the executive director of the San Francisco chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The newest ban is in some ways even more expansive than the last — remaining in effect indefinitely and imposing restrictions on eight, rather than six, countries. But unlike the last ban, the restrictions vary from place to place, and countries that increase their cooperation and information-sharing with the United States might be able to find their way off the list. For Syria and North Korea, the president’s proclamation blocks immigrants wanting to relocate to the United States and non-immigrants wishing to visit in some capacity. For Iran, the proclamation blocks both immigrants and non-immigrants, though it exempts students and those participating in a cultural exchange.

The proclamation blocks people from Chad, Libya and Yemen from coming to the United States as immigrants or on business or tourist visas, and it blocks people from Somalia from coming as immigrants. The proclamation names Venezuela, but it only blocks certain government officials. A Washington Post review of State Department data found that more than 65,000 visas were issued in fiscal 2016 that would now likely fall under the ban. The ban, though, contains a robust list of people who might qualify for a case-by-case exception, including those with significant U.S. contacts or those wanting to visit close family members.

The ban also exempts those already admitted to the United States on the effective date of the proclamation — which, for those not affected by the previous travel ban, is Oct. 18. The Supreme Court had been set to hear arguments on Trump’s previous travel ban, inked in March, but on Monday, it removed that hearing from the calendar and asked for briefs on whether the case was now moot. One significant piece of the previous executive order — the 120-day ban on all refugees entering the United States — remains in effect until Oct. 24. The latest ban leaves unclear what will happen after that. U.S. officials have been discussing possibly lowering the refugee cap for fiscal 2018 to below 50,000. The fiscal year begins Sunday.

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This is the time the inscription on the Statue of Liberty kicks in by default.

 

[impuretrash]

dump them into the sea

 

[ScienceRocks]

dump them into the sea

That would be genocide.

 

[impuretrash]

dump them into the sea

That would be genocide.

Send them back where they came from. They'll be happier there.