Biden's Gaza refugee plan will welcome people who 'hate America' and poses a threat to national security, Homeland Security Chairman warns as outrage grows

A top lawmaker is sounding the alarm on the Biden administration's reported plan to bring Palestinian refugees directly to the U.S., saying it presents a national security risk. 

According to government documents reviewed by CBS News, multiple federal agencies under Biden are considering a plan to bring Palestinian refugees straight to the U.S. 

The plan comes as pro-Gaza protests have engulfed college campuses across the country and students - who could be seen as likely Biden voters -  have expressed solidarity with the strip.

But Republicans are ripping the idea as foolish and dangerous. 

'There is no justification for allowing those who actively hate America, our founding principles, and our way of life into our country,' House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., told DailyMail.com in an exclusive statement. 

President Joe Biden's administration is reportedly mulling a plan to bring Palestinian refugees from Gaza directly to the United States. The plan may provide the refugees housing assistance and a pathway to citizenship and the White House and other federal agencies have not confirmed or denied the plan

'Additionally, there is no way to properly vet any of these potential refugees.'

'But given his nonsensical and destructive approach to border security, immigration, and national security, it’s hardly surprising that President Biden is considering welcoming refugees from Hamas-dominated Gaza—something even neighboring Arab nations in the region have refused to do.'

The majority of Senate Republicans have also come out strongly against the Biden administration effort. 

'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,' Senate Republican Policy Chair Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, wrote to Biden on Wednesday.

The letter was signed by 34 members of the Senate GOP caucus.  

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., said the plan could pose a risk to national security, adding there is not an appropriate method to verify the refugee's identities

The U.S. has helped over 1,800 American citizens and their families get out of Gaza, a White House spokesperson told DailyMail.com

When reached for a comment on the reported plan, the a White House spokesperson neither confirmed or denied its existence. 

'The United States has helped more than 1,800 American citizens and their families leave Gaza, many of whom have come to the United States,' the spokesperson told DailyMail.com in a statement. 

'The United States also continues to be the largest contributor of humanitarian assistance to Gaza to address the dire conditions, and we are pressing hard to get more urgently-needed aid in to more people as soon as possible.'

Under the plan, the refugees would need to have a direct connection to the U.S., however, with family members who are citizens or permanent residents. 

If they pass a number of medical and security tests, these refugees would be able to obtain benefits such as housing assistance and a pathway to citizenship.

The considered action could involve the United States Refugee Admissions Program, which enables the U.S. Departments of State, Homeland Security and  Health and Human Services to admit refugees and give them 'U.S. government-funded resettlement assistance.'

The three Departments did not immediately respond to requests for comments.  

Since its inception in 1980, the program hasn't resettled large numbers of Palestinians.

In the last 10 years, while the U.S. has allowed 400,000 refugees to come in, fewer than 600 were Palestinian.

A woman walks through the rubble of a collapsed building in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war

The terrorist group Hamas has been in control of the Gaza Strip for decades and has engaged in brutal fighting with Israeli forces for months. Green expressed concern about bringing Palestinians to the U.S. amid their support of Hamas 

Still, Green told DailyMail.com the Biden administration idea is a threat.

'The last thing our country needs in the middle of a historic border crisis—a crisis driven in part by people abusing our asylum system—is to stretch that system even further while also putting our national security at risk.'

'And if the botched Afghan withdrawal and subsequent vetting failures tell us anything, it’s that admitting these individuals poses a major risk to our safety and security, now and in the future.'