The mainstream media drumbeat is well underway!
Noticeably absent from this editorial from last week, however, is any mention of “Christians!” The publication also suggests that Obama relax security screening that had been put in place after 911.
Demonstrating a complete misunderstanding of refugee resettlement in America (or is it an effort to mislead us) the CSM says this:
“It is time for Europe and the United States to be a safety valve and accept many more Syrians for temporary asylum.”
There is NO temporary asylum in America. Refugees are permanently resettled in the US. As a matter of fact, we received a comment recently where a reader assumed that refugees come here temporarily until their homeland is secure again. NO!
Longtime readers know we have another immigration loophole called ‘Temporary Protected Status (TPS)‘ which is for those from certain designated countries who were in the US (visiting, on student visas, etc) when the problem happened back home—a civil war or natural disaster—who are supposedly allowed to stay only until the status is removed. Syrians already in the US are now eligible for that program. However, even when the trouble back home is solved, most of those on TPS NEVER leave, just ask the Salvadorans! There are NO temporary refugees, so why the CSM editor says such a thing is beyond me!
Here is more of what the CSM says—to show our gratitude to certain Middle Eastern countries we need to take twelve thousand or so chosen by the UN! (and skip the security screening!):
The UN wants 30,000 of Syria’s most vulnerable refugees – mainly women and children – to be taken in by the US and Europe. About 20 countries in Europe plan to accept 18,000 Syrians. For now, however, the Obama administration has committed to resettling only “several thousand” Syrians.
One problem for the US is that post-9/11 laws make it difficult to screen asylum seekers from Muslim countries. The laws were designed to make sure terrorists don’t slip through. More than 135,000 Syrian refugees have applied for asylum. Last year, only a few dozen were allowed into the US. The Obama administration has legal ways to overcome the bureaucratic hurdles and begin granting far more temporary visas. [There are no temporary refugees!—ed]
The US has called on Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon to keep their borders open. For both humanitarian and security reasons – and out of gratitude to those countries – the US must now also open its border to the huddled masses of Syrian refugees.
For security reasons? Now what the heck does that mean? Surely they don’t mean we have to take them to keep them from becoming terrorists!
The talking points have gone out! The UN wants the US to take 12,000 this year, the contractors want it too. Will Obama do it—legally he can!