I saw hundreds and thousands of themfamilies streaming out of this wartorn area. Very few of them have ever made it to the United Statesabout 2.000. Part of the reason is we have an elaborate. lengthy background check before anyone can be admitted as a refugee. In fact. it takes anywhere from 18 to 24 months of waiting to see if you might legally become a refugee in the United States of America. Well. these Republican Presidential candidates and 25 Governors have said: We dont want any Syrian refugees. We are not going to allow them to come to the United States during a period of a "pause"-as some say. Others have taken more extreme positions. It is hard to imagine. If our goal is to keep Americans safe. why are these Republican candidates focusing on Syrian refugees? You see. since we have allowed about 2.000 refugees into the United States over the last 4 years. not one single Syrian refugee has been arrested and accused of terrorist activitynot one. After a lengthy background check. we believe we have done everything humanly possible to keep those away who would be any danger to our country. I met some of those Syrian refugees who have made it here. in the city of Chicago. If you think they are terrorist threats to the United States. for goodness sake. take a few minutes and sit down and talk to them and hear their stories of how their families went through extreme hardshipssome of them with children who were being killed in Syria during the warand as they fled with the clothes on their backs. they appealed to the United States to be allowed to come here as refugees and then waited up to 2 years to go through every one of the possible background checks before they finally made it. What happens when they get here? Well. initially they need some help.
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