French authorities have confirmed that several of the terrorists behind the Paris attacks posed as Syrian migrants to sneak into the country, according to multiple sources.
Now, many Americans — including Congressional leaders — are pushing to shut down America’s borders before the same happens here.
Immediately after the Paris attacks, French authorities suspected Islamic militant Abdelhamid Abaaoud was the mastermind. Intelligence experts initially believed Abaaoud had coordinated the attacks from Syria, but were surprised to learn he had snuck into Europe through a Greek corridor being used by Syrian refugees.
Now authorities believe Abaaoud and his accomplices may have posed as refugees themselves to travel freely across Europe.
“It was a big surprise when the intelligence came in,” said a police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, about the discovery that Abaaoud had successfully snuck into Europe. “There were many people who didn’t take it seriously, but effectively it was confirmed.”
In the United States, Republicans stepped up efforts to lock down America’s borders and embarrassed President Barack Obama by winning veto-proof House approval of legislation blocking Syrian and Iraqi refugees from the U.S.
Six days after the Paris attacks, the House voted 289-137 Thursday to essentially bar refugees from the two war-ravaged countries while tighter entry restrictions are imposed. In a rebuke to Obama that even an eleventh-hour visit to the Capitol by top administration officials could not avert, 47 Democrats — including many facing tight 2016 re-elections — joined the GOP, yielding the two-thirds margin needed to override vetoes.
Though Republicans felt they’d found a soft spot for Democrats no longer constrained to back a lame-duck president, Obama and other leading Democrats were confident they could stop the bill.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest, speaking to reporters accompanying Obama on a flight to Malaysia Friday, reaffirmed the veto threat the White House issued in advance of Thursday’s House vote.
“Our position on this piece of legislation has not changed,” Earnest said. He did say White House staff members are talking with members of Congress on reforms to the visa waiver program, calling those discussions “productive.”
The House bill would require FBI background checks on Syrian and Iraqi refugees and require three top federal officials to certify that each refugee is safe.
The administration plans to accept about 10,000 Syrian refugees in addition to the over 2,000 who have settled here in recent years.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
BETWEEN DISTRACTED & DIVIDED LEADERSHIP IN AMERICA and DETERMINED DESTRUCTION THROUGH ISIS; we are challenged beyond assessment. We have two enemies, one is ourselves.
THE MILITARY SWEAR TO UP HOLD THE U.S.A FOR WE THE U.S.A CITIZENS , AND IF ALL THESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND JIHADIST CREATE A DESTABILIZATION AND COLLAPSE OF THE ECONOMIC AND CIVIL OPERATIONS OF THIS COUNTRY FROM WHATEVER KIND OF ATTACK THEN THE MILITARY NEEDS TO STEP IN AND TAKE OVER TO NATIONALIZE AND STABILIZE THE SITUATION , NOT THIS PRESIDENT HE AND HIS ILK WANT TO CONTROL EVERYONE’S LIVES , NOT ALLOW FREEDOM TO RING FOR U.S. CITIZENS ITS OBVIOUS WE ARE “ LEGISLATIVELY ” UNDER SIEGE BY THIS PRESIDENT AND IF DESTABILIZATION OF THE WHOLE SYSTEM HAPPENS THE NEXT FORM OF SIEGE IS “ Martial Law “ and this should only be done by our military at this point because of the ideology at work under this president and his administration , they are the ones “ out of control with their thinking “ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I BELIEVE THIS IS A PLAN HATCH UP BY THE MARXIST ENVIRONMENTALISTS WHO HAVE TAKEN OVER THE GOVERNMENT AND WANT A COLLAPSE OF THE SYSTEM TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL EVERYONE’S RATE OF CONSUMPTION , BUT KNOW THAT THEY NEED SOME KINDA EVENT THAT WOULD MAKE IT LOOK LIKE IT WAS THAT REASON FOR NATIONALIZATION OF THE ECONOMIC AND CIVIL SYSTEMS TO STABILIZE THE SYSTEM , THEN THEY WOULDN’T BE SEEN AS THE REASON FOR TYRANNICAL CONTROL SETTLING IN OVER SOCIETY THAT WOULD HAVE CREATED RESISTANCE TO THIS FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION .
Wow! You did it! You solved the case!
The other is obama hang him by the balls until crisp ‘
I agree with all the anti obama comments. He is the poorest excuse for a president that we have ever had. He is a complete dip shit. You could put all of the worst presidents together and they wouldn’t come close to him. How in the hell did he ever get to where he is????????????? The whole thing about odumbo is weird. He was a nobody until now. What the hell happen.
Blame it on the electorial college, they are the ones who put OHdumber in office twice. The electorial college needs to be disbanded and this Country needs to be ran by the ONE who WINS the popular vote…..
Mr Trump is right please stop calling them masterminds,instead how about cowards
I’m just totally disappointed that I could not be the executioner of this scum animal.
Please publish a list of those 137 who voted against this bill. They are traitors and put party politics ahead of what is best for American citizens.
Talk about close–if ONE more member had voted against the legislation, it would have been vetoed. Soooo close.
Obama must be impeached. He is insane.
The United States should set up refugee camps in Iraq. Iraq shares a border with Syria. It would be much cheaper to send supplies to Iraq than to bring the people here. Once the Syrian conflict is over, the refugees can walk across the border and go home.
The politicians need to understand that if they support this scheme to bring “refugees” onto American soil they will be held responsible if those immigrants commit acts of terrorism while they are here. If the terrorists realize they are not going to get a taxpayer-funded trip to America they are likely to drop the charade and leave the refugee camp. Ending the hopes of emigration to America will be the best way to get the terrorists out of the camps.
Obama has an ace up his sleeve, In time of national emergency there WILL NOT be a presidential election. I predicted last year that this will be his “slight of hand” trick to stay in office, just watch 2016 probably mid to late summer and see what happens. This will give him total control during a state of emergency and then we will find out why the government has been updating abandoned military bases and foreign troops have been here in the USA!
There is a World War Against Terrorism going on…YOU DO NOT BRING IT CLOSER BY BRINGING IN REFUGEES this goes for all Nation’s They deserve Help yes but in a nutruel Location Paris Found out what allowing Immigration can do YOU CAN NOT AND WILL
NOT CHANGE ANYONE THERE BELIEFS WE’RE I STILLED in them long ago in there native lands So welcoming them into
Your country will do NO GOOD . YOUR OWN CITIZENS WILL PAY THE PRICE WAKE UP CALL TO ALL GOVERNMENT S ON THE
FACT OF THIS EARTH
.RAISE A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHALL GO AND WHEN HE IS OLD HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT..(Holy Bible)
Proverb or psalm? Where in the Bible?