patrick.net

From article:

Sources close to Trump tell Fox News he has plans to cut that by more than half to 50,000.

In an interview with CBN, Trump said persecuted Christians from Syria would get priority.

“They’ve been horribly treated. Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them.”

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How many christians are in Saudi Arabia that haven't been forcibly converted or killed? How about Pakistan?

Why has it been so easy for Syrian muslims to come to US and not Syrian/Egyptian Christians....the latter is at more risk for violence.

Sounds like trump wants to reduce obama quota of 110k to 50k and give Christian refugees preference over muslims.

MMR says

Why has it been so easy for Syrian muslims to come to US and not Syrian/Egyptian Christians

First off-it hasn't been easy for Syrian Muslims to come to the US. Second--do you have any evidence that it has been more difficult for Syrian/Egyptian Christians to get to the US than it has been for Syrian/Egyptian Muslims?

Of the 15,479 Syrian refugees admitted by the end of Thursday:

--15,302 (98.8 percent) are Muslims – 15,134 Sunnis, 29 Shi’a, and 139 other Muslims

--125 (0.8 percent) are Christians – 32 Catholics, 32 Orthodox, five Protestants, four Jehovah’s Witnesses, and 52 refugees described only as “Christian” in State Department Refugee Processing Center data.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/15479-syrian-refugees-have-been-admitted-year-606-more-2015-988-are

That doesn't show anything. How many Christians are trying to get out of Syria but can't because the US is making it difficult.

I'm outraged that he's banning refugees from countries that haven't had any terror attacks on the US and not banning those countries that did.

And he's doing so to protect his business interests. So obviously his business is more important than American citizens safety.

I think it's about time the military industrial complex was completely honest about their intentions. Before they were just pretending not to like Middle Easterner's by droning the shit out of their countries, then letting them resettle in the US. At least their current fish-in-a-barrel approach is more honest.

joeyjojojunior says

Second--do you have any evidence that it has been more difficult for Syrian/Egyptian Christians to get to the US than it has been for Syrian/Egyptian Muslims?

http://www.newsweek.com/us-bars-christian-not-muslim-refugees-syria-497494

But the numbers tell a different story: The United States has accepted 10,801 Syrian refugees, of whom 56 are Christian. Not 56 percent; 56 total, out of 10,801. That is to say, one-half of 1 percent.

The BBC says that 10 percent of all Syrians are Christian, which would mean 2.2 million Christians. It is quite obvious, and President Barack Obama and Secretary John Kerry have acknowledged it, that Middle Eastern Christians are an especially persecuted group.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-22270455

Here’s the Fox excerpt:

Experts say another reason for the lack of Christians in the makeup of the refugees is the makeup of the camps. Christians in the main United Nations refugee camp in Jordan are subject to persecution, they say, and so flee the camps, meaning they are not included in the refugees referred to the U.S. by the U.N.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/02/gross-injustice-10000-syrian-refugees-to-us-56-are-christian.html

joeyjojojunior says

That doesn't show anything. How many Christians are trying to get out of Syria but can't because the US is making it difficult.

Moving goalposts, wtf? How about the UN camps where refugees are picked up from lack a christian contingent because they are persecuted in that environment. I guess if the UN can't protect them, that is also the United States fault?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/02/gross-injustice-10000-syrian-refugees-to-us-56-are-christian.html

From article:

But when you have been running a refugee program for years, and you have accepted 10,612 Sunni refugees and 56 Christians, and it is obvious why and obvious how to fix it, and nothing is done to fix it—well, the results speak more loudly than speeches, laws, intentions or excuses. In effect, we make it almost impossible for Christian refugees to get here.

So I’ll stick with that heading. And I agree with Shea: “This is de facto discrimination and a gross injustice.” Hats off to Cotton for seeing it for what it is and suggesting a viable solution. His bill would bring this shameful practice to an end and save the lives of many Syrian Christians.

http://www.newsweek.com/us-bars-christian-not-muslim-refugees-syria-497494

Bottom line: Muslims have it FAR EASIER(not even close) than christians from middle eastern countries....Whether US making difficult or not is issue; sad thing is, the only one who attempted to bring bill to table was a Republican Senator from Arkansas named Tom Cotton.

Christians from those countries shouldn't have to apply for refugee status through UN because it is unsafe for them to be in camps, but rather directly petition the US government.

The same thing happens in Germany: Muslim Translators deliberately lie and mislead to German Authorities when translating on behalf of Christians or recent Christian converted Refugees.

We also saw this on the Boats to Italy. Muslims threw the open Christians off.

This is part of "There's only so many people taken, and I'll make sure it's my brethren and not the Kuffars"

Ironman says

The population is 10% Christians, but only 0.8% are being admitted...

You figure it out.

Irrelevant unless you know 10% of the Syrian refugees seeking entrance to the US are Christian. Feel free to post up your source.