You have the right to remain silent...
for carrying out a lethal terror attack on US soil
| How many died while carrying out a lethal terror attack, on US soil or elsewhere, and therefore could not be arrested? How many were caught in the planning stage? How many went elsewhere to commit jihad? How many were connected to jihadis or were even their parents? How many refugees or their chldren were merely criminals? So many questions the journalist did not ask here. |
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
groups that the country is still committed to providing sanctuary to people fleeing the world’s danger zones.
Up to 30,000 refugees will be allowed into the country next year, down from a cap of 45,000 this year. It will be the lowest ceiling on admissions since the program began in 1980. The announcement comes despite calls from global humanitarian groups that this year’s cap of 45,000 was too low.Pompeo sought to head off potential criticism of the reduction by noting that the US would process more than 280,000 asylum claims in addition to more than 800,000 already inside the country who are awaiting a resolution of their claims.
"These expansive figures continue the United States’ long-standing record as the most generous nation in the world when it comes to protection-based immigration and assistance," he said.
The 30,000 cap is the maximum number of refugees the US will admit during the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. The actual number allowed in could be lower. So far this year, the US has only admitted 20,918 refugees for the fiscal year set to end in two weeks, according to State Department records.
President Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
raised the ceiling to 110,000 in 2017, but the pace slowed dramatically after President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
took office and issued an executive order addressing refugees. In 2016, the last full year of the B.O. regime, the US welcomed nearly 85,000 refugees.