Syrian Refugee Crisis: Credible Source

Ninth Edition: New Constitution Finding 4:
Surging admissions of Syrian refugees into the United States is likely to result in an increase in federal law enforcement’s counterterrorism caseload.

  • Following the rise in admissions of Iraqi refugees into the United States, it was discovered that two al Qaeda terrorists had managed to slip through the cracks and resettle in Kentucky in 2009.28 The FBI reportedly still has “dozens” of ongoing counterterrorism cases tied to these admissions.29 
  • The Committee has been made aware that officials in multiple departments and agencies are concerned about accelerating Syrian refugee admissions and fear that the lack of caution will result in a range of new terrorism cases domestically. 
  • Given the current high-threat environment, agencies are stretched extremely thin in terms of their ability to monitor suspects and disrupt plots. This year the FBI has been forced to confront nearly a thousand terrorism-related cases in every single U.S. state, according to FBI Director Comey, straining law enforcement resources. “We had to surge hundreds of people from criminal cases—which are important—and move them over to the national security side,” he noted. Comey said he was unsure what the Bureau would do if there was a return to this level of operational tempo.30
From:
https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/HomelandSecurityCommittee_Syrian_Refugee_Report.pdf
     U.S. Homeland Security Committee, November 2015
Recommedations: (From the same)
1. Immediate action must be taken to temporarily suspend the admission of Syrian refugees into the United States until the nation’s leading intelligence and law enforcement agencies can certify the refugee screening process is adequate to detect individuals with terrorist ties. 
2. The Government Accountability Office should initiate an end-to-end review of the refugee screening and vetting process, with a particular focus on the integrity of the current procedures for conducting national security checks on Syrian refugees. 
3. The President should act immediately to implement the recommendations of the bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel to enhance America’s security posture to prevent terrorist infiltration into the United States. 
4. The U.S. intelligence community and law enforcement should launch a concerted effort with our European partners to review all data already collected from refugees and migrants—and to screen it against counterterrorism and intelligence databases to find any possible extremist connections. 
5. U.S. government departments and agencies should ramp up efforts to assist our European partners in building the capacity to conduct robust, consistent counterterrorism vetting of refugees and migrants going forward. 
6. U.S. government departments and agencies must also work with European and Middle Eastern partners to close information-sharing gaps and improve intelligence and law enforcement cooperation related to Syrian refugees. 
7. Ultimately, the threat posed by terrorist exploitation of refugee routes can only be addressed at the source through decisive action to roll back and defeat ISIS, to expedite the removal of the Assad regime, and to keep Syria from remaining an Islamist terror safe haven. Accordingly, the President must work with our allies to lay out a credible strategy for victory and long-term stability in Syria.

Their citations:
28 James Gordon Meek et al., “Exclusive: US May Have Let ‘Dozens’ of Terrorists into Country as Refugees,” ABC News, November 20, 2013, http://abcnews.go.com/ Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-countryrefugees/story?id=20931131. 
29 Ibid. 
30 Worldwide Threats and Homeland Security Challenges, Hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, House of Representatives, October 21, 2015, 114th Cong., 1st sess., (2015) (Testimony of Hon. James B. Comey, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice).

Note Well: It is a crime to lie before Congress when you are giving testimony.

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