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Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins
It drives me nuts how we are having this nationalism movement occurring when there is a genuine reason for concern for Syrian refugees. The vetting process in the U.S. is sound there is no reason to backburner it. When Cubans or those fleeing Nazi Germany fled and became refugees we welcomed them and in both of those incidents we were at war with an ideology we feared.
On the flip side please stop calling this white terrorism just call it domestic terrorism.
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It may not make you feel as warm and fuzzy as you think......
Administration officials have acknowledged that checking the accuracy or authenticity of documents provided by refugee applicants against foreign government records can be especially difficult involving countries that don't cooperate with the U.S. government, such as Syria. It can also complicate U.S. efforts to check foreign government records for local arrests or lesser bureaucratic interactions, such as bank records, business licenses or civil filings. "We do the best we can with the information we have," one U.S. official said.—FBI Director James Comey told Congress weeks ago that the FBI sees a risk with Syrian refugees and "we will work hard to mitigate it." He said the biggest challenge is that a background check is as only as good as the information available. "That's the challenge we are all talking about, is that we can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home but ... there will be nothing show up because we have no record on that person," Comey said.
Things to know about Syrian refugees and the vetting process - US News