I'm not cynical......like the others, for example the Republican governors, I simply want the refugees screened to make sure we identify the ISIS operatives........why do liberals consider that to be an unreasonable request?.......
Huh? They're going to be screened. All refugees get screened.
The republican govs are dumber than rocks. This is just a cheap but meaningless political ploy to appease their frightened citizens.
"The problem for Jindal, Abbott and the other governors opposed to admitting refugees, however, is that there is no lawful means that permits a state government to dictate immigration policy to the president in this way. As the Supreme Court explained in
Hines v. Davidowitz, “the supremacy of the national power in the general field of foreign affairs, including power over immigration, naturalization and deportation, is made clear by the Constitution.” States do not get to overrule the federal government on matters such as this one.
Just in case there is any doubt, President Obama has explicit statutory authorization to accept foreign refugees into the United States. Under the
Refugee Act of 1980, the president may admit refugees who face “persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion” into the United States, and the president’s power to do so is particularly robust if they determine that an “unforeseen emergency refugee situation” such as the Syrian refugee crisis exists."
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...ernors-cant-refuse-to-accept-syrian-refugees/
So now you're trying to conflate war refugees with undocumented immigrants.