Obama Threatens Veto of House Republicans' Syrian Refugee Plan
Source: Bloomberg
President Barack Obama will veto a House Republican proposal that would sharply tighten screening of refugees from Syria and Iraq, according to the White House, which said the bill wouldn’t improve U.S. security after last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
All refugees already “undergo the most rigorous and thorough security screening of anyone admitted into the United States,” the Obama administration said in a statement Wednesday. The plan would “undermine our partners in the Middle East and Europe in addressing the Syrian refugee crisis.”
The House plans to vote Thursday on the plan, which would block Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the country unless four top U.S. law-enforcement and national security officials affirm to Congress that they aren’t a security threat. One of the Islamic State extremists who staged last week’s Paris attacks, killing at least 129 people, may have entered Europe posing as a Syrian refugee.
House Speaker Paul Ryan urged lawmakers during a floor speech Wednesday to back the measure, which is being brought to the floor only six days after the attacks. Refugees already face a vetting process of up to two years before they are admitted to the country.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-11-18/house-democrats-said-to-mull-alternative-bill-on-syria-refugees
Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama would veto a Republican bill introduced in the wake of the Paris attacks to toughen the screening process for Syrian refugees, the White House said Wednesday.
The US House of Representatives could vote as early as Thursday on resolution 4038, which aims to block administration plans to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the coming year.
"Given the lives at stake and the critical importance to our partners in the Middle East and Europe of American leadership in addressing the Syrian refugee crisis, if the President were presented with H.R. 4038, he would veto the bill," the White House said.
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