{"id":82433,"date":"2015-12-16T15:53:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T23:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82433"},"modified":"2015-12-16T15:53:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T23:53:47","slug":"as-lawmakers-clash-over-refugees-syrian-immigration-quietly-tops-100000-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82433","title":{"rendered":"As lawmakers clash over refugees, Syrian immigration quietly tops 100,000 since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/12\/16\/as-lawmakers-clash-over-refugees-syrian-immigration-quietly-tops-100000-since\/\">From Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A proposal to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States has ignited a bitter debate in Washington, but more than 10 times that number of people from the embattled country have quietly come to America since 2012, according to figures obtained by FoxNews.com.<\/p>\n<p>Some 102,313 Syrians were granted admission to the U.S. as legal permanent residents or through programs including work, study and tourist visas from 2012 through August of this year, a period which roughly coincides with the devastating civil war that still engulfs the Middle Eastern country. Experts say any fears that terrorists might infiltrate the proposed wave of refugees from United Nations-run camps should be dwarfed by the potential danger already here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sheer number of people arriving on all kinds of visas and with green cards, and possibly U.S. citizenship, makes it impossible for our counterterrorism authorities to keep track of them all, much less prevent them from carrying out attacks or belatedly try to deport them,\u201d said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: A proposal to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States has ignited a bitter debate in Washington, but more than 10 times that number of people from the embattled country have quietly come to America since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82433\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,29639],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-syria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82434,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82433\/revisions\/82434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}