good resource! Let's take it step by step:
step 1: collect identifying documents, biological data
OK, good, we'll collect a ton of data. What will actually be done with this data...? guess we'll see
step 2: collect this data into a file
OK, shit's heating up now. Step 3 is about to be lit, i tell you
step 3: security screening!
oh shit nigga! time to ask the people in the know, like the...uh...FBI, and...State Department, and...Homeland Security and even Counterterrorism centers? Yeah, I'm sure they know all kinds of personal details from random people living in Syria! Shit, I thought you were going to actually ask Syrians this shit
but there's the rub: that's how a real security screening or background check would work, unfortunately given that the country is currently experiencing a civil war doing so is less than impossible. In fact, even if some of these guys were actual criminals, given Syria's current views towards us, they probably aren't going to tell us about it. So we're just going to go ahead and hope that these guys have been internationally active in some fashion. Here's a question for you, Verbatim: How many members of, say, the Bloods or Crips are known to the FBI? And yet they are probably capable of terrible crimes, it's just that they haven't done anything outside of their neighborhood. If you were to transport in refugees from LA, sure, some of them would be just like me (literally cause I live here in case that wasn't clear). But I would understand if it was felt that I couldn't be vetted well enough. Especially if you then let me live in a refugee camp, which is the case currently.
broadly speaking i'm sure that really bad terrorists have a fair chance of being weeded out at this stage (assuming they're also not that smart though), but the rank and file probably haven't done anything to get noticed. additionally, someone who thinks terrorism is morally justified but hasn't done any himself has about a 0% chance of being caught this way.
step 4: interviews
could be good, could be really easy to pass. I hold out hope but...
steps 5 onwards: not worth discussing.
let me use a simple Pokemon metaphor to explain this
imagine I told you I had to build a team for next week's OST, and it had to win obviously. But it's OK, i have recruited the best teambuilders in the game, like McMeghan, Hugo's smogon ghost, young danklord CTC, some other people who are hot on the tournaments scene, et cetera. Confidence level: high!
Until of course I let slip that I have placed on myself a limitation: I can only use PU or below Pokemon on this team.
But it's OK! remember, hot teambuilders! And theoretically, why can't PU pokemon beat OU ones if the team has enough synergy and purpose and blah blah blah
well no offense to PU but in stark reality that ain't happenin. it sounds OK to people who only vaguely follow these things, but to people who are actually involved with this shit (like a former head of the FBI) it's a total nonstarter.
by the way your infographic sort of misses the point that we never brought in refugees from a place in current civil war which we caused where we didn't have bcoots on the ground in significant number. like in the Iraqi war our soldiers could just go talk to the villagers and find out a lot of information which isn't really the case currently.
also trump been said he's not going to exclude citizens, on account of that's several different types of illegal all at once...
veiva, we talkin bout syrian refugees right now. they're who we can't vet. not 'all refugees ever'
