'We must dramatically increase the number of Syrian refugees that we accept'
A group of 14 Democrat senators has written a letter to President Obama urging him to “dramatically increase” the number of Syrian refugees being resettled into American cities and towns.
They say the U.S. needs to take in at least 65,000 Syrians as permanent refugees over the next year-and-a-half.
“While the United States is the largest donor of humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees, we must also dramatically increase the number of Syrian refugees that we accept for resettlement,” says the four-page letter to Obama, copied to Secretary of State John Kerry and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
More than 3.5 million Syrians are registered with the United Nations as refugees, and the U.N. wants to assign about 350,000 of them to so-called “third-party countries.”
The 14 senators, led by Richard Durbin, D-Ill., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., cite the research of the Refugee Council USA to make their case for 65,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2016. RCUSA is the main lobbying arm of the nine agencies that contract with the federal government to resettle refugees in cities and towns across America.
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9 comments:
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When will the people in the US realize that the democrats have elected and are the enemy of this country?
Put the refugees next door to the homes of the politicians that are promoting this destruction.
They need more stupid voters!
More on welfare. Let the 14 Senators pay for it. Better than that, tax the states they represent to pay for their upkeep.
Have these people been lobotomized??
I am sick and tired of ALL Democrats. They have ruined this country and Muslims are not what this country needs.
Yes I said all Democrats. If you are to stupid to change your party and you associate with the enemy then you are my enemy and I don't like you.
Obama, O'Malley, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Marilyn Mosby, O'Pollitt, O'Liarton, Chuck Kook, Jake Gay, Laurence Mitchell, Miguell "The Sex Offender" Miquell. Yews they are all the enemy!!
I have seen several posts from Chuck Kook on FB where he attacks Republicans about the Muslim thing.
We "need" to take in 65000 Syrians? Why?
Have we had enough yet?????
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