Top U.S. counterterrorism officials say they worry a potential terrorist could be hiding among refugees who are looking to come to the United States after escaping the brutal war in Syria.<\/p>\n
“It’s clearly a population of concern,\u201d the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Nicholas Rasmussen, told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, went further, saying it would be a \u201chuge mistake\u201d to bring refugees from the conflict to the U.S. \u2013 even as an estimated 4 million children, women and men have been forced to flee Syria and another 7 million have been displaced from their homes there, unable to leave.<\/p>\n
Senior officials leading the State Department\u2019s refugee efforts say the U.S. government has a long history of caring for the innocent victims of war.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a matter of should we do it, it\u2019s really a matter of how we do it,\u201d Larry Bartlett, the State Department\u2019s director of Refugee Admission for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, told ABC News. \u201cOne of the fundamental principles of our country is that we care about others. We will help others.\u201d<\/p>\n
With tens of thousands of Syrians joining groups in the region like the Islamic State, the U.S. government \u201ccannot allow the refugee process to become a backdoor for jihadists,\u201d Republicans added.<\/p>\n
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