BREAKING NEWS
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| The House has voted to impose stringent screening on Syrian and Iraqi refugees, defying a threatened veto |
Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:54 PM EST
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| The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to slap stringent — and
difficult to implement — new screening procedures on refugees from Syria
seeking resettlement, seizing on the fear stemming from the Paris attacks and
threatening to cloud President Obama’s Middle East policy. |
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would require that the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the
secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the director of national
intelligence confirm that each applicant from Syria and Iraq poses no threat, a
demand the White House called “untenable.” The measure received
significant support from Democrats, even after administration officials implored
them to abandon the measure on Thursday morning. |
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