Alabama Don't Want No Syrian Refugees!

To be sure, the idiots squawking about Syrian refugees must necessarily be ignorant of the process already in place for them to come to the US.

It takes anywhere from 18–24 months for a Syrian refugee to be cleared to live in the United States. First he or she must be registered with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. This agency interviews refugees, conducts background checks, takes their biometric data, and establishes whether they belong to one of roughly 45 “categories of concern” given their past lives and work history in Syria. Typically, the applicants are women and children. If anything looks amiss, they are pulled from consideration. Then the U.S. government begins its own vetting. The applicants are interviewed again, and their names and particulars are run through terrorism databases. They receive additional screening when they arrive in the United States and then again after their first year in the country.

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There is another way to look at this: There may be no more difficult way for a would-be terrorist to enter the United States than to pose as a Syrian refugee.

  Slate

Alabama's governor has boldly promised his people they won't have to accept any Syrians.

Syrian refugees are fleeing murder, rape, torture, barrel bombs, and chemical weapon attacks.

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This [acceptance] process has led to slightly more than 1,800 Syrians being admitted to the United States since 2011. None of them has landed in Alabama, but if that ever did happen, no one will ever have gone through a more painstaking and extensive vetting process where the reward was to live in Alabama.

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According to a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Alabama has the second-worst quality of life in the United States. It has the “fifth lowest employment rate, the eighth highest homicide rate, and the tenth lowest household disposable income rate in the nation.” The Institute for Women’s Policy Research says Alabama is tied for the worst place for women to live. (More than 31 percent of women there work in low-wage jobs.) Alabama has high poverty and low life expectancy.

Alabama poses a greater risk to Syrian refugees than those refugees pose to Alabama.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.