Syrian Muslim Refugees Are Actually,
ISIS Terrorists and Obama Knows It
Feds Admit They have no data on
Syrian refugees, even so, more than 90% who apply get approved. On what bases? Nothing but
Obama’s orders. I hope that you are
prepared for the Middle Eastern War to come here.
Sessions
asked if Emrich’s department had access to even a single database in Syria that
could provide solid background records on refugees in order to confirm a
refugee is who he says he is.
Larry Bartlett, director of
admissions for the U.S. State Department’s refugee program, said most of the
refugees have been coming from Iraq, Bhutan, Burma and the Democratic Republic
of Congo with Syria now added to the mix.
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
By de Andréa, Opinion Editorialist
for ‘THE BOTTOM LINE’:
for ‘THE BOTTOM LINE’:
Published October 3, 2015
Feds Admit They have no data on
Syrian refugees, even so, more than 90% who apply get approved. On what bases? Nothing but
Obama’s orders. I hope that you are
prepared for the Middle Eastern War to come here.
The officials who run the program also either don’t know or
refused to say how many refugees have become terrorists once resettled on U.S.
soil, nor could they say what percentage of refugees they are able to
positively identify before letting them into the country.
Immigration officials responsible for screening refugees made an
attempt to show that the process is rigorous and “continuously being improved,”
but Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., dismissed the generalities and demanded
specific answers during a two-hour hearing before the Senate subcommittee on immigration
and the national interest.
The U.S. State Department, which works with the United Nations
to send 70,000 to 100,000 refugees per year directly from Third World countries
into U.S. cities and towns, has long described the screening process as “the
most rigorous of all travelers coming into the United States.” [Well I can personally testify that, that is a
blatant lie. When I came back from the Middle East two and a half years ago, I
was detained for bringing back some processed fruit and nuts. I had all the proper paper work, I guess my
mistake was that I was honest and declared them. One U.S. Customs agent
threatened to arrest me. I kind ‘a doubt
that these refugees are as “rigorously scrutinized as I was.]
That statement was made again at the opening of Thursday’s
hearing.
But Sessions drilled down to specifics as to what exactly is
meant by the word “rigorous”…
Testifying was Matthew Emrich, associate director for Fraud
Detection and National Security Directorate at the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services within the Department of Homeland Security.
“Can you name a single computer database outside of maybe some
of our own very small but valuable intelligence databases for Syria that you
can check against? Does Syria have any?” Sessions asked.
“The government does not, no
sir,” Emrich answered.
Sessions pointed out from various press reports that Syrian fake passports
can be purchased on the black market for as little as $200, and that nearly
half of the refugees pouring into Europe are actually from Pakistan,
Afghanistan, north Africa and other hotbeds of Islamic terrorism.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. At right.
Sessions repeatedly reminded Emrich that a top FBI
counter-terrorism official, Michael Steinbach, testified to Congress earlier
this year and admitted that the U.S. has no access to reliable law enforcement
data inside Syria because it is has become a “failed state” where the U.S. has no
“boots
on the ground.”
“Michael Steinbach on Feb 11 expressed serious concerns with the
screening of Syrian refugees. I don’t see how you can gloss over this,” Sessions said. “He
said… you’re talking about a country that is a failed state, that does not have
any infrastructure and therefore any of the institutions you would normally go
to and seek data on these individuals, do not exist.”
Emrich said there is some data available, but not from the
refugee’s home country, “and we’d be happy to describe it to you in
a different setting. We check everything that’s available.”
“But Mr. Steinbach is making a serious point, that there are no
databases to check,” Sessions said.
“We check everything that we have available within U.S.
holdings. As far as I’m concerned if’ we haven’t overturned every stone we are
in the process of overturning every stone,” Emrich responded.
“There you go,” Sessions said. “We’re turning over everything we can
overturn. I don’t deny that. But you don’t have their criminal records, you don’t
have the computer database that you can check, so isn’t Mr Steinbach telling
the truth? That in many cases it just doesn’t exist?”
Emrich then made a startling admission. “In many countries the U.S.
accepts refugees from, the country did not have extensive data holdings,”
he said.
“I’m asking you to talk to the American people,” Sessions said. “The
American people are asking you a question. I know what Mr. Steinbach said. So
aren’t you left with basically looking at whatever document they produce and whatever
they tell you?”
Emrich said he could assure the American people “that we have a
robust screening process and these processes are continually reviewed and
upgraded whenever possible, and it includes an in-depth interview with a
trained U.S. government officer and is accompanied by an additional interview,
an inspection rather, when the person presents him or herself at a U.S. port of
entry.”
Sessions, a former federal prosecutor, again dug in his heels
and would not accept Emrich’s answer.
“I’ve been in law enforcement for 15 years,” Sessions said. “I
know how the national crime information system works, I know how these checks
are conducted. There’s no way you can do background checks on these people. If
you get a hit on a background check, you can reject that person, but you have
only a miniscule number of people who have been identified in that fashion, so
I don’t believe you can tell us with any certainty that that person is who he
says he is. So aren’t you left with looking at whatever document they produce? Is
there any way you can actually send someone to Iraq or Syria and see if someone
actually lived on the street where they said they lived, or actually had the
job he claims to have had?”
Emrich said his department does not have the ability to send an
investigator to Syria but relies on biometric and biographical information.
“I’m sure there are things you can do, but are you saying you
can independently verify with positive data on the majority of cases?” Sessions asked. “Can
you give me a number? Is it 50 percent, 60 percent, 80 percent?”
“I can’t give you a number
sir,”
said Strack.
“And the reason is, you don’t have the ability,” Sessions concluded. “I
wish you did, but you don’t.”
Muslims turning to terror
Sessions then went down a
list of refugees who turned into terrorists after they were resettled in the
United States. He mentioned six Somali men from Minnesota charged last week, an
Uzbek Muslim refugee in Idaho who was convicted in August for making bombs and
recruiting other Muslims to attack U.S. military installations, seven others in
Minnesota charged with trying to join ISIS, among dozens of others.
“The problems we face are here, now,” he said. “This
is not just scare tactics. A coach in Minneapolis said ‘there are monsters out
there,’ more than 20 young (refugees) from Minnesota between 2007 and 2009 left
to join al-Shabab (an al-Qaida affiliate in Somalia). And in the past year
disappearances began again, this time to the Islamic State. Ms. Strack and Mr.
Emrich you do not have the ability to do security checks on these people.”
Sessions asked, “Can any of you tell me of the number of
persons granted refugee status since 2001 who have been affiliated with
terrorist activity?”
Neither Strack, nor Emrich nor the other officials testifying
Thursday could answer that question. Among those who sat mum was Robert Carey,
director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement which operates within the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
Sessions’ subcommittee
established a list of 72 men arrested between July 2014
and July 30, 2015, who were charged with terrorist activity and were immigrants
from Muslim nations.
More than 73 percent of refugees receive food stamps, and the
figures are even higher among refugees from the Middle East, Sessions said,
citing a congressional research office report.
Sessions cited a Washington Post article that said the Tsarnaev
family arrived in the United States in 2002 as refugees and their two sons came
a short time later. They were actually asylum seekers, which is a similar but
different category of immigrant. Their two sons grew up and became the Boston
Marathon bombers.
Kerry said refugees are resettled in 173 cities in 48 states.
Sessions asked if local cities and towns are consulted before
refugees arrive.
“What’s your policy on that and can you assure us that any
community that will receive a direct flow of refugees will be consulted?”
Bartlett said quarterly briefings are conducted.
“We have 320 resettlement affiliates and we require them to do
consultations each quarter of the year with elected officials, the city council
and mayor, school officials, hospitals and health clinics, law enforcement and
any volunteer groups supporting refugees,” he said. “That takes place
quarterly, and includes a representative of the state government, usually the
governor’s office.”
Democrats call for more refugees, shorter screening period
Senate Democrats on the
committee, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Amy Klobuchar,
D-Minn., and Al Franken, D-Minn., asked almost no questions during the rare
oversight hearing and used their time to comment on the tear-jerking photos of
refugees in Europe.
Klobuchar said she “was very
proud” of the Vietnamese and Somalis who came to Minnesota as refugees and are
now a very important part of the fabric of our state.” She failed of course
to mention the more than 50 Somalis who have left or tried to leave the country
to try to join the ranks of foreign Islamic terrorist organizations, nor did
she mention the dozens of others who have been tried and convicted in her state
for offering material support to Islamic terrorist organizations.
The Democrats focused their emotion-based stories of desperate
women and children seeking a better life, when the U.N. statistics show that 75
percent of the migrants flooding into Europe are men between the ages of 18 and
45.
No mention of persecuted Middle East Christians
No mention was made at Thursday’s
hearing by any member of the Senate about the persecuted Christian minorities
in Iraq and Syria. As many as 350,000 Christians have been forced to flee their
homes, their property stolen, their wives and daughters raped and sold into sex
slavery, often after watching their husbands beheaded or shot.
Previously reported was that 95 percent of the more than 1,650
Syrians who have come to the U.S. since the beginning of Syrian civil war have
been Muslim and less than 4 percent have been Christian. Moreover Obama has plans to deport the few
Christians that have managed to make it into the U.S.
‘Faith leaders’ want more Muslim refugees
Another letter, signed by 144 “faith leaders,” whatever that
means, was sent to Obama asking that the government not restrict the number of
Muslim refugees allowed into the country from Syria or elsewhere.
Al Franken also talked about the photo of the drowned boy whose
body washed up on shores of Greece and how it reminded him of his grandson.
“Many of our partners in the EU are formulating a plan to
redistribute 120,000 migrants,” he said. “The U.S. on other hand has only
accepted 1,500 Syrian refugees (actually the number has now exceeded 1,650),
although the administration plans to up that to 10,000. I joined with my
colleagues, Senator Durbin and others, asking for 65,000 by end of 2016.”
Besides security, Sessions said the cost of the refugee program
is staggering. The cost of administering the program is more than $1 billion a
year, but that doesn’t include the billions spent on government assistance
programs and lost jobs for Americans.
“The costs are much greater Mr. Kerry than you suggested in your
statement. While we had 18 Democrat mayors asking President Obama to send more
Syrian refugees to their cities, homelessness has doubled in the United States.
Every new dollar spent on refugees is essentially borrowed because it’s new
expenses and we don’t’ have new revenue to pay for it. There is homelessness in
New York City, joblessness, so I would say someone else needs to help (the
refugees). I don’t accept the idea that we aren’t doing our fair share. We have
been very generous.”
The U.S. has granted $4.5 billion in aid to Syrian refugees
since 2012.
“Europe should be picking up the largest share of the problem
and I don’t see it there,” Sessions said. “And a good policy should be to help
keep people close to home, in Yemen, in Libya, in Iraq, so people can go home
more easily when the time comes, and we’ve allowed that to get away from us. We
need to look at who are we going to serve and whose interest are we trying to
serve?”
THE BOTTOM LINE: I don’t believe Obama could
make it any more obvious that he is trying to transport as many ISIS terrorists
into the U.S. as he possibly can before next year’s election.
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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