GOP Senators Demand Biden Cancel Plans to Accept Gazan Refugees into US by Aaron Pan – US Politics News

GOP senators have demanded that the Biden administration stop its plans to accept Gazan refugees into the United States over concerns of possible terrorist ties.
In a letter dated May 1 to President Joe Biden, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and 34 other GOP senators raised national security concerns if the White House allows these refugees from “this high-risk population for terrorist ties and sympathies.”
“We demand that your administration cease planning for accepting Gazan refugees until you adequately answer our concerns and focus your attention instead on securing the release of U.S. hostages held by Hamas,” the senators wrote.
The letter is in response to an article by CBS News on April 30, reporting that the Biden administration is considering welcoming certain Palestinians to the United States as refugees….