Designating specific nations as
trouble spots and ordering a pause is entirely within the President's
authority, and there is ample precedent to prove it.
``It should be possible to argue with the reasoning behind the order,
or argue that it will have negative unintended consequences, without
advancing hollow legal arguments. Of course, this is America 2017, so a
wave of lawsuits will soon be sloshing through the courts.
``7. This Executive Order is a security measure, not an arbitrary
expression of supposed xenophobia. Conway stressed the need to enhance
immigration security from trouble spots in her `Fox News Sunday'
interview. French also addressed the subject in his post:
``When we know our enemy is seeking to strike America and its allies
through the refugee population, when we know they've succeeded in
Europe, and when the administration has doubts about our ability to
adequately vet the refugees we admit into this nation, a pause is again
not just prudent but arguably necessary. It is important that we
provide sufficient aid and protection to keep refugees safe and healthy
in place, but it is not necessary to bring Syrians to the United States
to fulfill our vital moral obligations.''
The article goes on. It is well written, points are well made, and I
would humbly submit, Madam Speaker, that we had the statistics last
year that showed that for the cost of bringing one Syrian refugee to
the United States for 1 year, we could help take care of 12 Syrian
refugees in place in a safe zone over near their home. Now, I am very encouraged that even though President Obama simply
would not ever agree or strive to have a safe zone in areas near the
refugees' homes so we can take care of 12 times more than we can
possibly bring to our country for the same cost, and he is working on
that, and he has got some agreements, and it looks like that may be a
possibility. We give air cover, help create safe zones in areas there
in the Middle East so the refugees can live without being killed and
horribly brutally murdered and abused. That makes more sense. It
appears that the President has worked with or talked with the Saudi
authorities and perhaps will be able to get something like that worked
out.
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