SeattleGriz wrote:Ibanez wrote:
Didn't the Governors of Michigan and Minnesota say the didn't want them?
Washington State said they'd accept refugees.
Washington's got balls. Oh yeah, I live there. Pussies.
Yeah! Wish we lived in a brave state that refused to take in refugees!
Seattle - More than half of the county's state governors are concerned that terrorists might use the refugees as cover to sneak across borders. Authorities said a Syrian passport was found near one of the attackers in the wave of terror that hit Paris last week.
Twenty-seven governors say they won't allow Syrian refugees into their states despite the Refugee Act of 1980, which says governors cannot legally block refugees from settling in their communities.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslese is one of the few who is welcoming refugees to the state.
1.) The refugee resettlement process is lengthy.
There are 13 steps in all before a refugee is approved to move to America. Click here to read them.
“The background checks, the security screenings, the verification of the biographies, the DNA checks to ascertain that these people really are a family unit — all of that is done before they arrive at Sea-Tac airport," Dan Samuelson of World Relief Seattle said.
2.) It can take 18 to 24 months for a refugee to get approved.
Refugee resettlement can take up to two years, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.
The U.S. has admitted roughly 2,500 Syrians since the civil war erupted in that country in the spring of 2011, State Department officials said. Of that number, about half are children. About 2 percent are single men of combat age. The overall pool is almost evenly split between males and females.
3.) Refugees are already in Washington, according to the local Syrian community.
Hussein Ali came here from Syria in 2011 for school, and stayed for work. Ali brought his parents here in 2013 when they began to fear for their lives.
Ali’s family was able to immigrate here legally because they’d already started the paperwork before anyone had heard of ISIS. He said the refugees coming now face far stricter scrutiny -- months of interviews and background checks, according to the U.S. State Department.
Ali says the few Syrian refugees who are already here told him about the intense and careful process.
“It’s very hard, it takes years and years, like 3-4-5 years,” he said.
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Syrian refugees are probably as safe as eating Qdoba right now.