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Who cares if they are Syrian nationals or not? It has been pretty well established that most of the "refugees" in the current wave are not Syrian.
Oh. I'm sorry. I thought we were talking about Syrian refugees. My bad.. :lol:
Are we sure that they even meet the definition of refugees as defined in Federal Code?

What is different in these refugees and those Obama banned from Iraq a number of years ago?
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I get both sides of this argument but Obama is really blowing it on selling his vision to Congress and the American people. If he really believes that this is the right thing to do than he needs to stop with the "trust me" crap or the anger at any group that disagrees with him and make his case. There are good arguments to be made that accepting refugees is part of what makes America what it is and if we stop doing it then we're losing a piece of who we are and allowing the terrorists to win a battle. So please, Mr. President, leave the imperious attitude at the door and use that oratory that you're famous for to convince people that this is the right thing to do.
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Ibanez wrote:
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Put them in states that want them...they will be welcomed with open arms in Michigan, California or Minnesota
Worked out well with those peace loving Somalis in Minn.

Won't bother obama in the future unless they start camping on golf courses


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Didn't the Governors of Michigan and Minnesota say the didn't want them?


Washington State said they'd accept refugees.
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Two federal agents operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are claiming that eight Syrian illegal aliens attempted to enter Texas from Mexico in the Laredo Sector. The federal agents spoke with Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity, however, a local president of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) confirmed that Laredo Border Patrol agents have been officially contacting the organization with concerns over reports from other federal agents about Syrians illegally entering the country in the Laredo Sector. The reports have caused a stir among the sector’s Border Patrol agents.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... in-laredo/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Normally, I don't read or quote breitbart, but it seems on conservative news sites are the only ones reporting stories like this.



Not that i'm surprised.
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A leader of New York City’s Syrian community told The Post on Wednesday that ISIS terrorists have “absolutely” sneaked into America by posing as civil-war refugees — and joined sleeper cells just waiting to be activated.

“I believe the terrorists from Syria have been coming into the United States, not only in the past few years, but way before that,” said Aarafat “Ralph” Succar of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, home of the city’s largest enclave of Syrian immigrants. “I think they’re already at work.”
http://nypost.com/2015/11/19/syrian-com ... york-city/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Honduran authorities have detained five Syrian nationals who were trying to reach the United States using stolen Greek passports, but there are no signs of any links to last week’s attacks in Paris, police said.

The Syrian men were held late on Tuesday in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, on arrival from Costa Rica, and had been planning to head to the border with neighboring Guatemala. The passports had been doctored to replace the photographs with those of the Syrians, police said.
http://nypost.com/2015/11/18/syrians-wi ... -enter-us/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you have nothing to hide, then why try to enter the US in this manner. Very suspicious... :suspicious:
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Ibanez wrote:
A leader of New York City’s Syrian community told The Post on Wednesday that ISIS terrorists have “absolutely” sneaked into America by posing as civil-war refugees — and joined sleeper cells just waiting to be activated.

“I believe the terrorists from Syria have been coming into the United States, not only in the past few years, but way before that,” said Aarafat “Ralph” Succar of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, home of the city’s largest enclave of Syrian immigrants. “I think they’re already at work.”
http://nypost.com/2015/11/19/syrian-com ... york-city/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Honduran authorities have detained five Syrian nationals who were trying to reach the United States using stolen Greek passports, but there are no signs of any links to last week’s attacks in Paris, police said.

The Syrian men were held late on Tuesday in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, on arrival from Costa Rica, and had been planning to head to the border with neighboring Guatemala. The passports had been doctored to replace the photographs with those of the Syrians, police said.
http://nypost.com/2015/11/18/syrians-wi ... -enter-us/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you have nothing to hide, then why try to enter the US in this manner. Very suspicious... :suspicious:
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SeattleGriz wrote:
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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.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/4-thing ... gee/npQjb/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Syrian refugees are probably as safe as eating Qdoba right now.
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Now's the time for this guy to run again. Dude was 30 years ahead of his time!
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The irony of seeing feckless, non-religious (or overtly anti-religious) Donks on this board invoking the name of Jesus Christ is hilarious -- and hypocritical.
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Ivytalk wrote:The irony of seeing feckless, non-religious (or overtly anti-religious) Donks on this board invoking the name of Jesus Christ is hilarious -- and hypocritical.
Dude, that wasn't Jesus. That's the lead singer of Nickleback.
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kalm wrote:
Ivytalk wrote:The irony of seeing feckless, non-religious (or overtly anti-religious) Donks on this board invoking the name of Jesus Christ is hilarious -- and hypocritical.
Dude, that wasn't Jesus. That's the lead singer of Nickleback.
Nickleback sucks.
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kalm wrote:
SeattleGriz wrote: 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.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/4-thing ... gee/npQjb/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Syrian refugees are probably as safe as eating Qdoba right now.
Whew...it's a relief to know that only men are capable of blowing themselves up. :lol:

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First picture of Europe's first female suicide bomber...
Posing with two fingers up to the camera, this is Europe's first female suicide bomber whose head flew through a window and landed on the street when she blew herself up during the Saint-Denis siege.

Hasna Ait Boulahcen screamed, 'help me, help me!', before detonating her suicide vest packed full of explosives as French anti-terror police moved in on the terrorists' hiding place.

Her head and spine flew through a window before a ferocious gun battle in Saint Denis where the mastermind of the Paris bombings, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed.

Witnesses said she went to a nearby KFC restaurant to buy some food and looked 'relaxed' just hours before the blast.

Now MailOnline can reveal Ait Boulahcen, 26, Abaaoud's cousin, was an 'extrovert' who drank alcohol and was nicknamed 'the cowgirl' due to her love of wearing big cowboy hats.
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Honest question for those playing the compassion card…

If on a cold night you had a person claiming to be homeless ask you if they could stay the night at your place, would you let them stay knowing full well there is a chance that they could steal your car or your valuables (or even hurt you)? Even if their story seems plausible and they seem sincere you can get taken to the cleaners.

Why is the only solution to bring these people to our shores? We can't relocate these people to relatives they may have in other places?
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Baldy wrote:
kalm wrote:
Yeah! Wish we lived in a brave state that refused to take in refugees!



http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/4-thing ... gee/npQjb/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Syrian refugees are probably as safe as eating Qdoba right now.
Whew...it's a relief to know that only men are capable of blowing themselves up. :lol:

Image

First picture of Europe's first female suicide bomber...
Posing with two fingers up to the camera, this is Europe's first female suicide bomber whose head flew through a window and landed on the street when she blew herself up during the Saint-Denis siege.

Hasna Ait Boulahcen screamed, 'help me, help me!', before detonating her suicide vest packed full of explosives as French anti-terror police moved in on the terrorists' hiding place.

Her head and spine flew through a window before a ferocious gun battle in Saint Denis where the mastermind of the Paris bombings, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed.

Witnesses said she went to a nearby KFC restaurant to buy some food and looked 'relaxed' just hours before the blast.

Now MailOnline can reveal Ait Boulahcen, 26, Abaaoud's cousin, was an 'extrovert' who drank alcohol and was nicknamed 'the cowgirl' due to her love of wearing big cowboy hats.
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Cgrad brought up the idea they were young males. I wonder if she had a kid?
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kalm wrote:
Baldy wrote: Whew...it's a relief to know that only men are capable of blowing themselves up. :lol:

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First picture of Europe's first female suicide bomber...



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Cgrad brought up the idea they were young males. I wonder if she had a kid?
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It wasn't an idea I brought up. It's the truth. Many European news organizations and governments have published demo figures on the current wave of migrants. The vast majority are non-Syrian and male between the ages of 16-38.
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Pwns wrote:Honest question for those playing the compassion card…

If on a cold night you had a person claiming to be homeless ask you if they could stay the night at your place, would you let them stay knowing full well there is a chance that they could steal your car or your valuables (or even hurt you)? Even if their story seems plausible and they seem sincere you can get taken to the cleaners.

Why is the only solution to bring these people to our shores? We can't relocate these people to relatives they may have in other places?
Well if it were a person with his wife and newborn I'd just put them in the manger... :coffee:


Can't believe the chickenshitedness of conks, armed and still terrified of something less likely to happen than getting struck by lightning. :ohno:

Their mascot should be Chuchundra from Riki Tiki Tavi. :coffee:
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Baldy wrote:
kalm wrote:
Yeah! Wish we lived in a brave state that refused to take in refugees!



http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/4-thing ... gee/npQjb/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Syrian refugees are probably as safe as eating Qdoba right now.
Whew...it's a relief to know that only men are capable of blowing themselves up. :lol:

Image

First picture of Europe's first female suicide bomber...
Posing with two fingers up to the camera, this is Europe's first female suicide bomber whose head flew through a window and landed on the street when she blew herself up during the Saint-Denis siege.

Hasna Ait Boulahcen screamed, 'help me, help me!', before detonating her suicide vest packed full of explosives as French anti-terror police moved in on the terrorists' hiding place.

Her head and spine flew through a window before a ferocious gun battle in Saint Denis where the mastermind of the Paris bombings, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed.

Witnesses said she went to a nearby KFC restaurant to buy some food and looked 'relaxed' just hours before the blast.

Now MailOnline can reveal Ait Boulahcen, 26, Abaaoud's cousin, was an 'extrovert' who drank alcohol and was nicknamed 'the cowgirl' due to her love of wearing big cowboy hats.
:dunce:
She drank booze and indulged in American garb?! :lol: :lol:

Also, her head and spine went through a window?! Holy shit! :shock: :shock:
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CitadelGrad wrote:
kalm wrote:
Cgrad brought up the idea they were young males. I wonder if she had a kid?
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It wasn't an idea I brought up. It's the truth. Many European news organizations and governments have published demo figures on the current wave of migrants. The vast majority are non-Syrian and male between the ages of 16-38.
Hmmm...feel like we've been here before.

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