http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/11/you_will_never_guess_how_the_us_is_vetting_syrian_refugees.html#ixzz3refNW7fZNovember 16, 2015
You will never guess how the U.S. is 'vetting' Syrian refugees
By Ed Straker
Both Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have called for the US to accept more Syrian refugees, as long as they are properly "vetted", of course. But what does it mean to "vet" a refugee?
Normally, if someone wants to come into the United States, say, from France or Germany, our government can check with the French or German government to see if this person has a criminal record, or even is who he says he is.
But when it comes to refugees from Syria, what is called "vetting" relies mostly on one source of information: the refugee.
The UNHCR referral is a crucial first step to gaining admittance to the U.S., but the candidate must then pass “the highest level of security checks conducted on any category of traveler to the United States,” a State Department official said.
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