Obama Admin Extends Asylum for ‘Syrian Refugees’ Through 2018

Non-Muslim Syrian refugees have been virtually locked out by the Obama administration, according to current data from the State Department. According to the Refugee Processing Center, of the 6,877 Syrian refugees that have arrived in 2016 through July 31st, 6,834 of those are identified as Sunni, Shia, or generic Muslim. Only 43 (0.7 percent of total) refugees admitted have been non-Muslim. That 0.7 percent of refugees arriving this year represents a statistically insignificant fraction of the more than 2.6 million Catholic, Syriac, Assyrian, and Greek Orthodox Christians, as well as Yazidis, other religions, and atheists living in Syria. Yet all of these groups are being targeted by Islamic …

How in God’s name are U.S. immigration authorities supposed to know the true intentions of a 22-year-old Syrian man? It is impossible. You know it is impossible.
How in God’s name are U.S. immigration authorities supposed to know the true intentions of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and thousands of other sundry Muslims who wish to arrive on our shores?
It is impossible. You know it is impossible.
The security of this great land supersedes your desires and the desires of others who wish to come here now. The United States of America has no obligation to open its doors in order to placate foreigners and liberals in our government.
To adopt any other course but Mr. Trump’s would be a cause for further endangering the lives of Americans every day. That, sir, is unacceptable.

“Obama Admin Extends Asylum for Syrian Refugees Through 2018,” By Adam Kredo, WFB, 1, 2016
Status protects Syrians from being booted from U.S. through 2018
The Obama administration has extended and renewed temporary asylum status for scores of Syrian refugees residing in the United States, meaning that these individuals are shielded from being booted from America through 2018, according to a new federal notice.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a notice on Monday alerting U.S. agencies that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syrian refugees is being extended another 18 months, from Oct. 1, 2016 through March 31, 2018, according to the notice.
“The extension allows TPS beneficiaries to retain TPS through March 31, 2018, so long as they continue to meet the eligibility requirements for TPS,” according to the notice.
The extension comes as the Obama administration moves forward with a plan to relocate thousands of Syria refugees into the United States. The plan has received criticism due to what experts say is the U.S. government’s inability to screen these individuals for ties to terrorism.
Refugees given protected status cannot be removed from the United State, are able to obtain employment status, and are eligible to travel.
This extension “allows additional individuals who have been continuously residing in the United States since August 1, 2016 to obtain TPS, if otherwise eligible,” the notice said. “The Secretary [of Homeland Security] has determined that an extension of the current designation and a redesignation of Syria for TPS are warranted because the ongoing armed conflict and other extraordinary and temporary conditions that prompted the 2015 TPS redesignation have not only persisted, but have deteriorated, and because the ongoing armed conflict in Syria and other extraordinary and temporary conditions would pose a serious threat to the personal safety of Syrian nationals if they were required to return to their country.”
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