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HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued, “the idea that when Syrian refugees come to European countries, or to America, that they are going to completely fit in, is a fantasy” and “This is the one issue the Democrats are

Jordan’s King Abdullah II told anchor Wolf Blitzer that while his country is accepting refugees and they can’t be ignored, it wasn’t “fair” to ask a foreign leader his opinion on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in an interview broadcast

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama used the words of Pope Francis during his visit last fall to strengthen his call for further openness, specifically toward Muslims in the United States, and as a challenge, particularly to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

A city in the Texas Panhandle says “enough already” when it comes to resettling refugees from the Middle East. The city of Amarillo now sports the dubious title of having the country’s highest ratio of refugees from Middle East nations. City officials are asking for a halt to the resettlement of these refugees because of the negative impact on their community.

GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is pointing out the hypocrisy in imposing gun control laws to stop “just one shooter,” but not vetting tens of thousands of refugees coming into America from terrorist infiltrated countries.

A security expert has warned that the UK could become exposed to the mass rape epidemic sweeping the continent in just a few years, as recently arrived migrants in Germany and elsewhere gain the right to roam freely within the

Former Defense Intelligence Agency head Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.) said that he’s “not proud” of the US’ screening process, which doesn’t “have the right capabilities” and has “limitations” that have “enormously frustrated” people within the immigration system that he

Actress Susan Sarandon visited the daytime talker The View on Monday to speak about her recent trip to the Greek island of Lesbos to assist with the Syrian refugee crisis — and blasted Americans for what she called the “xenophobic” dialogue surrounding the issue in the United States.

“McLaughlin Group” host John McLaughlin slammed the “mischaracterization” of Europe’s immigrant influx as Syrian refugees on Friday. “The most over-reported story of 2015: the mischaracterization of the influx of immigrants into Europe as, ‘Syrian refugees’. Many were from as far

CNN Correspondent Tom Foreman said that state pushes against accepting Syrian refugees was the “Worst setback for advocates of human rights” in 2015 during CNN’s “All the Best, All the Worst 2015” special. Foreman said, “Worst setback for advocates of

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued the US should train Syrians in Saudi Arabia and Jordan to fight ISIS, but that he would send US boots to fight ISIS “if necessary” on Wednesday’s “On the Record” on the Fox

Susan Sarandon spent the Christmas holiday on the Greek island of Lesbos assisting international organizations with the mounting Syrian refugee crisis — a crisis, she says, that recalls the travails of Joseph and Mary on their way to the Inn in Bethlehem.

A Minneapolis print-shop owner has started a sticker campaign welcoming Syrian refugees, as a response to those in America who do not embrace the idea of Syrian refugees entering the country, according to a report by MPR News. Mike Davis is

Legendary comedian Jerry Lewis unloaded on President Obama’s foreign policy “uncertainty,” praised Donald Trump’s showmanship, and offered up his own thoughts on the Syrian refugee crisis in a recent interview with the Catholic network EWTN.

British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife are donating $1 million (900,000 euros) to help Syrian refugees, the charities receiving the money announced Sunday.

Just last week, Democrats in the media were guffawing over a poll which showed 30% of Republican primary voters would bomb the fictional city from Disney’s Aladdin. This week a Republican polling group asked a similar question of Democrats, and the results were even more embarrassing, with 44% of Democrats saying they’d support taking in refugees from Agrabah.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings insisted,“We’ve got to be a new America,” during a public radio show interview Monday in which he posited “xenophobia,” the fear of outsiders, would grip the nation unless citizens welcomed Syrian refugees and Central American illegal immigrants.

A majority of American voters oppose resettling Syrian refugees in the U.S., according to a Quinnipiac University National poll released Wednesday.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted out a reassuring message about the federal government’s anti-terrorism screening process Monday night. He quoted one of the questions in the K-1 fiancé visa application form.

Homeland star Mandy Patinkin offered up some advice for those wishing to make Syrian refugees welcome in the United States of America.

World Relief, one of five Christian charities among the top nine voluntary agencies (VOLAGs) receiving $1 billion a year in payments from the federal government as part of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement program, is leading a political charge calling on American taxpayers to “care sacrificially for the refugee.”

The House approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill Friday morning with a majority of Democratic votes.

In a shocking break with their party, eight California Democrats supported a GOP bill in Congress that would prevent refugees from Syria and Iraq from entering the U.S. unless the heads of the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and the director of National Intelligence certify that the refugee would not endanger the U.S.

Republican presidential candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio said of the omnibus bill “I know enough to say we’re going to oppose it, and I know enough to say that we should use every procedural aspect that we have to slow

In the weeks following the terrorist attack in San Bernardino — in which a pair of Islamic extremists gunned down 14 people — California has remained among the top destinations for Syrian refugee resettlement.

Congressional leaders have averted a government shutdown and have set new policies, such as strengthening the visa waiver program, according to Reuters.

President Obama warned against the immigration mistakes of the past Tuesday, comparing Syrian refugees to the Jewish refugees who fled the Holocaust and the plight of Mexican immigrants to the discrimination faced by Catholic immigrants in the past.

Tuesday at the U.S. National Archives in Washington D.C. at a naturalization ceremony, President Barack Obama likened today’s Syrian refugees to the Jewish refugees of World War II. Remarks as follows: We haven’t always lived up to our ideals. We haven’t

A Siena College poll shows that despite Governor Andrew Cuomo’s stated support of Syrian refugees settling in New York, even liberal New Yorkers are not on board with that decision.

The year-end spending bill is the last change Congress has to put the breaks on President Obama’s plan to admit at least 10,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. despite concerns about the vetting vulnerabilities and national security implications, according to Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX).

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum talks to Breitbart News exclusively before the fifth GOP primary debate. “Here’s the reality, not all Muslims are jihadists, but all jihadists are Muslims,” Santorum stated. “We can’t be politically correct to the point where we ignore that reality.”

Research into the public narrative surrounding the European migrant crisis has shown definitively that the viral spread of the photo of Aylan Kurdi, the toddler who drowned making the crossing from Turkey to Greece, was a watershed moment, shifting the language

New York’s Top Democrats have identified the causes of the mass opposition to illegal immigration and Syrian resettlement: Anger, fear, and Ronald Reagan’s 1980 election.

The ACLU is calling for presidential candidates “to oppose the exclusion of [foreign] individuals from the United States on the basis of religion or nationality.”

A government accountability organization has sued the Obama administration for records regarding refugee resettlement in the U.S.

State Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver (R-Lancaster), the daughter of a refugee from Yugoslavia who came to the United States in 1952 as a twelve-year-old, wants the Tennessee General Assembly to step up if Governor Bill Haslam fails to launch a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program.