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"President Obama and Hillary Clinton's idea that we should bring
tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America, it is
nothing less than lunacy,” Senator Ted Cruz said in an interview on
Fox News.
“Now on the other hand, Christians who are being targeted for
genocide, for persecution, Christians who are being beheaded or
crucified, we should be providing safe haven to them," Cruz added.
Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for the Paris
attacks, saying it sent militants strapped with suicide bombing
belts and carrying machine guns to various locations in the heart of
the capital.
The White House announced plans in September to increase to 10,000
the number of Syrian refugees accepted in the United States during
fiscal year 2016, which began Oct. 1, up from the less than 2,000
accepted last year.
Globally, the United States will accept 85,000 refugees in 2016, and
100,000 in 2017, up from 70,000 in each of the previous two years,
Robert Jenkins, a U.S. AID official, told a Washington forum on
Friday.
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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said Syrian refugees should
be provided a safe haven, but it does not have to be in the United
States.
"We need to have a better process,” Huckabee said on CNN. “We don't
just have open borders like they do in Europe,” he added.
(Reporting by Idrees Ali; Additional reporting by Warren Strobel;
Editing by James Dalgleish)
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