drsmooth wrote:

MoBettle wrote:An application takes 18-24 months to process. I'm sure they're not actually doing 18-24 months of vetting. Especially given that Syria doesn't exactly have our infrastructure/personal records databases. A lot of what goes on there is off the grid.

There's definitely a decent amount of uncertainty with a lot of these refugees. It's just a question of whether that's too big of a risk.

Don't confuse bureaucratic backlog with thoroughness though.

Insane suicide bombers are men - ok, "boys", with serious psychiatric problems and perverted "religious" beliefs - in a hurry. The very length of time it takes to plod through the intake process suggests they're more likely to find a way into northern Canada and ride a moose across the border into Montana than patiently wait around a year and a half or more on the chance they slip through a bureaucratic process and become one of the TWO PERCENT of military-age Syrian guys likely to be admitted ever.

pacino wrote:some politicians are now talking about internment camps...

DAKAR, Senegal — A blast in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola on Tuesday night tore through a marketplace, killing 32 people and wounding 80 others, according to the local authorities and witnesses.
The blast occurred at 8 p.m. at a market filled with shoppers stocking up on fruits and vegetables for dinner, turning the area into a horrific scene of blood, bodies and mayhem.

Earlier on Tuesday, Mr. Buhari ordered the arrest of the former president’s national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, accusing him of stealing more than $2 billion that Mr. Buhari said should have gone to pay for weapons to fight Boko Haram.

Mr. Dasuki, whom Mr. Buhari quickly fired along with other top military officials upon taking office, pleaded not guilty last month to other money laundering charges and released a statement saying he was surprised by the recent action.
Nigeria has been working with neighboring countries to root out Boko Haram and is receiving guidance from American and French military officials.

pacino wrote:FAQs

they wait elsewhere in a resettlement center, only allowed to travel to the US once the process is completed.

pacino wrote:some politicians are now talking about internment camps...

Samer Shalaby, a civil engineer and member of the Islamic Center of Fredericksburg, was discussing plans for the new worship center at a Spotsylvania County meeting, on property the Muslim community owns, WUSA9 reports.

Video of the meeting shows a burly man yelling and pointing his finger at Shalaby.

“Every one of you are terrorists, I don’t care what you say,” he yells. “Every Muslim is a terrorist.”

He also tells Shalaby, “Shut your mouth. I don’t want to hear your mouth. I will do everything that I can do to keep you from doing what you’re doing. It will happen. That will happen.”

Another American flag and hat-wearing man is also seen yelling and pointing at Shalaby, who is holding a poster board with a building outline.

“This is evil,” the man shouts.

“It was almost like a mob-type thing,” Shalaby told WUSA9. The Muslim community has been at the same location for about 30 years.