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While Texans are compassionate to our core, and take in more refugees than any other state, significant security concerns have been raised about President Obama's plans to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year, nationwide, the federal government's stated inability to run effective background checks on these refugees, entering the United States from one of the world's most potent hotbeds of terrorism, puts all Texans at risk. – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's too easy to get into Europe, it is often said that we must be open to Syrian refugees. But these are only 30 percent of the inflow. Seventy percent are (economic) migrants. Also for this reason we need more effective controls. – European Council President Donald Tusk	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The issue (of resettlement) will be a hot potato in the coming period because even though this could be kept in a semi-secret state... someone somewhere - I think in Berlin this week - will announce that 4-500,000 Syrian refugees could be brought straight from Turkey to the EU, this nasty surprise still awaits Europeans. – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
So to suggest that the solution for Syrian refugees in Jordan is to simply funnel more money into refugee camps in Jordan is erroneous. – Naomi Steinberg	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The ones with a positive view of this settlement argue that a Franjieh presidency will reassure March 8 and Hezbollah, while the presence of Hariri in the palace as prime minister will reassure the other camp. This is what is being marketed behind the scenes, there has already been great damage, particularly in the March 14 camp - more than in March 8 - because Franjieh is the clearest ally of the Syrian regime and the Assad family in Lebanon. – Nabil Boumonsef	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There has already been great damage, particularly in the March 14 camp - more than in March 8 - because Franjieh is the clearest ally of the Syrian regime and the Assad family in Lebanon. – Nabil Boumonsef	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I believe the decision about the President of Syria should be in the hands of the Syrian people. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have no intention of escalating this incident. We are only defending our own security and the rights of our brothers, we will continue our humanitarian efforts on both sides of the (Syrian) border. We are determined to take all necessary measures to prevent a new wave of immigration. – President Tayyip Erdogan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Syrian problem has broken us, families come to us devastated. – Jamal Habbachich	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I want a database for the refugees, we have no idea who these people are. When the Syrian refugees are going to start pouring into this country, we don't know if they're ISIS, we don't know if it's a Trojan horse. And I definitely want a database and other checks and balances. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
And to address the specific terrorism concerns we are talking about now, we've instituted another layer of checks just for Syrian refugees. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They have increased the number of strikes against ISIL, particularly in Raqqa, Deir-ez-Zor and down in some of the oil infrastructure in eastern Syria, southeastern Syria, however the majority of Russian air strikes are still against moderate Syrian opposition forces, which is clearly concerning, and those strikes are in support of the Syrian regime. – Patrick Ryder	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If at any stage in that process there is ever the slightest shadow of a doubt or the slightest whisper of suspicion, they are removed from the process. That is that, the very, very few Syrian refugees who are accepted and referred for consideration for resettlement in another country -- there simply is no more closely scrutinized population on earth these days. – Christopher Boian	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every single Syrian refugee--is just not who we are. We’re better than that. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We don’t ask for the security to be compromised, but to associate (terrorism) with the Syrian refugees is so much injustice. – Samer Majzoub	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
At some point the Russians and the Iranians are going to have to make a fundamental decision, do they actually believe that they can prop up Assad and win on the ground militarily inside Syria against all the opposition, or do they actually think that it is better to save the Syrian state and work with the international community and the UN to find a government that truly can be legitimate. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If we get a better understanding with Russia about the process for bringing an end to the Syrian civil war, that obviously opens up more opportunities for coordination with respect to ISIL. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I want us to receive Syrian families, but I was really concerned that this family would be the test case, and they really don't deserve that. – Carleen Miller	Found on CNN 8 years ago
To give effective advice, the Revolutionary Guards advisers have to visit the front lines in Syria to become familiar with the reality of the battlefields, how could they help the Syrian army effectively by sitting in a room? The death toll of Iranians is not high. – Hossein Salami	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Frankly, (the visa waiver program is) a greater vulnerability than the issue of the Syrian refugees who have to go through an 18-month to two-year vetting process. Very few get through it, most of them are women and children and elderly people. So let's focus our attention where the greatest threat is. – Angus King	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The state of Illinois will temporarily suspend accepting new Syrian refugees and consider all of our legal options pending a full review of our country's acceptance and security processes by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. – Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Doing database checks doesn’t help much if you don’t have anything useful in the database on most people, we don’t have any information on who these people are. We don’t have access on Syrian vital statistics or government records, if they even still exist. – Mark Krikorian	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
With all the chaos in Syria, there are genuine Syrian document blanks. – Mark Krikorian	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The bill requires the nation's top security officials - the secretary of Homeland Security, the director of the FBI and the director of National Intelligence - to certify before admitting any Syrian or Iraqi refugee into the United States that the individual does not represent a security threat. – Michael McCaul	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

While Texans are compassionate to our core, and take in more refugees than any other state, significant security concerns have been raised about President Obama's plans to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year, nationwide, the federal government's stated inability to run effective background checks on these refugees, entering the United States from one of the world's most potent hotbeds of terrorism, puts all Texans at risk.

– Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's too easy to get into Europe, it is often said that we must be open to Syrian refugees. But these are only 30 percent of the inflow. Seventy percent are (economic) migrants. Also for this reason we need more effective controls.

– European Council President Donald Tusk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The issue (of resettlement) will be a hot potato in the coming period because even though this could be kept in a semi-secret state... someone somewhere - I think in Berlin this week - will announce that 4-500,000 Syrian refugees could be brought straight from Turkey to the EU, this nasty surprise still awaits Europeans.

– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So to suggest that the solution for Syrian refugees in Jordan is to simply funnel more money into refugee camps in Jordan is erroneous.

– Naomi Steinberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The ones with a positive view of this settlement argue that a Franjieh presidency will reassure March 8 and Hezbollah, while the presence of Hariri in the palace as prime minister will reassure the other camp. This is what is being marketed behind the scenes, there has already been great damage, particularly in the March 14 camp - more than in March 8 - because Franjieh is the clearest ally of the Syrian regime and the Assad family in Lebanon.

– Nabil Boumonsef

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There has already been great damage, particularly in the March 14 camp - more than in March 8 - because Franjieh is the clearest ally of the Syrian regime and the Assad family in Lebanon.

– Nabil Boumonsef

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I believe the decision about the President of Syria should be in the hands of the Syrian people.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have no intention of escalating this incident. We are only defending our own security and the rights of our brothers, we will continue our humanitarian efforts on both sides of the (Syrian) border. We are determined to take all necessary measures to prevent a new wave of immigration.

– President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Syrian problem has broken us, families come to us devastated.

– Jamal Habbachich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I want a database for the refugees, we have no idea who these people are. When the Syrian refugees are going to start pouring into this country, we don't know if they're ISIS, we don't know if it's a Trojan horse. And I definitely want a database and other checks and balances.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

And to address the specific terrorism concerns we are talking about now, we've instituted another layer of checks just for Syrian refugees.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They have increased the number of strikes against ISIL, particularly in Raqqa, Deir-ez-Zor and down in some of the oil infrastructure in eastern Syria, southeastern Syria, however the majority of Russian air strikes are still against moderate Syrian opposition forces, which is clearly concerning, and those strikes are in support of the Syrian regime.

– Patrick Ryder

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If at any stage in that process there is ever the slightest shadow of a doubt or the slightest whisper of suspicion, they are removed from the process. That is that, the very, very few Syrian refugees who are accepted and referred for consideration for resettlement in another country -- there simply is no more closely scrutinized population on earth these days.

– Christopher Boian

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every single Syrian refugee--is just not who we are. We’re better than that.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We don’t ask for the security to be compromised, but to associate (terrorism) with the Syrian refugees is so much injustice.

– Samer Majzoub

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At some point the Russians and the Iranians are going to have to make a fundamental decision, do they actually believe that they can prop up Assad and win on the ground militarily inside Syria against all the opposition, or do they actually think that it is better to save the Syrian state and work with the international community and the UN to find a government that truly can be legitimate.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If we get a better understanding with Russia about the process for bringing an end to the Syrian civil war, that obviously opens up more opportunities for coordination with respect to ISIL.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I want us to receive Syrian families, but I was really concerned that this family would be the test case, and they really don't deserve that.

– Carleen Miller

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To give effective advice, the Revolutionary Guards advisers have to visit the front lines in Syria to become familiar with the reality of the battlefields, how could they help the Syrian army effectively by sitting in a room? The death toll of Iranians is not high.

– Hossein Salami

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Frankly, (the visa waiver program is) a greater vulnerability than the issue of the Syrian refugees who have to go through an 18-month to two-year vetting process. Very few get through it, most of them are women and children and elderly people. So let's focus our attention where the greatest threat is.

– Angus King

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The state of Illinois will temporarily suspend accepting new Syrian refugees and consider all of our legal options pending a full review of our country's acceptance and security processes by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

– Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Doing database checks doesn’t help much if you don’t have anything useful in the database on most people, we don’t have any information on who these people are. We don’t have access on Syrian vital statistics or government records, if they even still exist.

– Mark Krikorian

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

With all the chaos in Syria, there are genuine Syrian document blanks.

– Mark Krikorian

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The bill requires the nation's top security officials - the secretary of Homeland Security, the director of the FBI and the director of National Intelligence - to certify before admitting any Syrian or Iraqi refugee into the United States that the individual does not represent a security threat.

– Michael McCaul

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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