14 senators (all Democrats) call on US to take more Syrian refugees; republicans oppose it.

[pampango]

Syrian refugee crisis: senators call on US to take in thousands more
Despite the US being a leader in humanitarian aid, the number of Syrian refugees it is set to admit pales in comparison to the 800,000 Germany will take in

Fourteen Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin and Amy Klobuchar, raised the issue with Obama in a letter. Comparing the crisis to the international failure to protect Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, the senators called on Obama to accept at least half the refugees referred by the UN.

“It is a moral, legal, and national security imperative for the United States to lead by example in addressing the world’s worst refugee crisis of our time.”

On the other side of the aisle, a handful of Republicans led by representative Mike McCaul, have vocally urged the opposite, saying that so many refugees raise “serious national security concerns” and that “the Syrian conflict is a special case” that should temper the US’s historic hospitality toward people fleeing prosecution.

“Screening these refugees is not a task to be taken lightly,” they wrote in a letter to the administration. “We cannot allow the refugee process to become a backdoor for jihadists.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/aid-groups-senators-us-take-in-65000-syrian-refugees

Not a surprise but this was the first I read of this.

[ellie]

1. Wait, the pro life repukes

don't want to help save lives? The hell you say!