The U.S. is bringing in 100,000 Muslims every year through
legal channels such as the United Nations refugee program and various visa
programs, but new reports indicate a pipeline has been established through the
southern border with the help of the federal agency whose job it is to protect
the homeland.
They are coming from Somalia and other African nations,
according to a Homeland Security official who was caught recently transporting
a busload of Africans to a detention center near Victorville, California.
Somalia is the home base of al-Shabab, a designated foreign
terrorist organization that slaughtered 147 Christians at a university in Kenya
just last month. It executed another 67 at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya,
in 2013, and has put out warnings that it will target malls in Canada and the
U.S. Dozens of Somali refugees in the U.S. have been arrested, charged and
convicted of providing support to overseas terrorist organizations over the
past few years.
Libya is also awash in Islamist terror following the death
of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. ISIS beheaded 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt on a
Libyan beach in March.
So
when Anita Fuentes of OpenYourEyesPeople.com posted a video of a U.S.
Department of Homeland Security bus pulling into a Shell station in
Victorville, on the night of May 7, admitting he had a busload of Somalis and
other Africans who had crossed the southern border, it raised more than a few
eyebrows among those concerned with illegal immigration and national security.
A man who appeared to be a Customs and Border Patrol agent
was filmed at the gas station at 10:30 p.m. When questioned by Fuentes, he
informed her that his large touring bus was full of Somalis and other Africans
being transported to a nearby detention center.
The tour bus had the U.S. Homeland Security logo, and the
agent appeared calm and professional.
The windows to the bus were covered. When asked if he was
transporting illegal immigrants, the driver said, “No, we ended up taking some
people to a detention facility. Somalis and all the Africans.” “A detention
center over here?” Fuentes asks. “Yeah,” he said. Victorville is about 161
miles from the Mexican border. “Is that because they’re crossing the border?”
Fuentes asked. “Well they’re coming in asking for asylum,” he said. “That’s
what it is, that special key word huh? That’s a password now?” Fuentes said. “That’s
what the password is now,” he responds.
The flow of information stopped when Fuentes asked about the
presence of ISIS near the border, a story which the watchdog agency Judicial
Watch reported last month.
“ISIS being at the border?” she asks. “I’m not going to talk
to you when you’re recording me, ma’am,” the agent says. “Any information you
want ma’am, go ahead and look it up online.”
A small part of a larger story
More than 100,000 Somalis have been brought to the United
States legally since 1991 through the U.N. refugee resettlement program. Close
to half of them have been resettled in Minnesota, with the rest dispersed
throughout Ohio, Maine, California, Texas, Idaho, Tennessee, Colorado, Georgia
and several other states.
The Somali community in Minnesota has had well-documented
problems assimilating, running up a troubling record of crime and
radicalization. Scores of Somalis have been arrested and charged with providing
material support to overseas terrorist organizations such as al-Shabab,
al-Qaida and ISIS.
Others have left the country to fight for al-Shabab and
ISIS, including six from Minnesota last month who were arrested after making
repeated attempts to leave the country to join ISIS. That prompted the U.S.
attorney for Minnesota, Andrew Luger, to admit in a April 4 press conference
that “we have a terror recruitment problem in Minnesota.”
At least two Somalis in Columbus, Ohio, have also been
arrested on terrorism charges. While most of the Somalis have been brought into
the U.S. by the U.S. State Department in cooperation with the United Nations,
exactly how many Somalis may be entering the country illegally and applying for
asylum is difficult to ascertain. According to official
DHS data, 688 Somalis entered the U.S. as
asylum seekers between 2004 and 2013.
Asylum seekers from other African countries with radical
Muslim populations are also showing up at the border. According to DHS data,
139 Libyans crossed into the U.S. between 2011 and 2013, while only 20 had made
the risky trek between 2004 through 2010 when dictator Moammar Gadhafi was in
power.
The number of Eritreans and Ethiopians showing up at the
U.S. border and seeking asylum is also growing: 1,495 came from Eritrea between
2004 to 2013, and 5,863 coming from Ethiopia.
The Washington
Times, among other publications, has
published stories about the harrowing journeys some Somalis have been will to
endure to get to the U.S. They make their way across the Horn of Africa, cross
the Atlantic by stowing away in a cargo ship before landing at a port in Brazil
or Argentina. From there they travel by land through Central America and Mexico
to arrive at the U.S. border. Until last year, at least some of them were
deported. Now, word is spreading that U.S. border policy has changed so more
are showing up with the one word they know of English – “asylum.”
Numbers likely higher
A Customs and Border Patrol agent, who asked not to be
identified, told WND that many more Africans and Middle Easterners are likely
crossing over the Mexican border than what DHS is willing to admit.
“You’re not going to get an honest number, because they all
want to look good and get promotions from the people in D.C.,” the border agent
told WND. “I’m absolutely confident that is happening.”
That’s why the video is raising eyebrows, because the agent
appears unfazed, as though transferring busloads of Somalis and Africans to
detention facilities is a routine task.
Once at the detention facility, asylum seekers are often
asked to fill out legal documents, given a court date and set free.
“There’s an ICE facility up that way, so that’s where that
bus was likely heading,” the Border Patrol agent said. “That doesn’t surprise
me. My guess is those are probably coming through Arizona because Arizona is
still the biggest pure hole in the southern border we have. The Casa Grande
area of Arizona is just the wild West. It’s on an Indian reservation, and
they’ve been battling the Border Patrol forever. There are no barriers, not
even a barbed-wire fence. But this administration’s done everything they can do
to shut down ICE from doing its job.”
Asylum seekers are required to show they belong to a group
of individuals who are suffering from a “pattern and practice” of persecution,
either from their native country’s government or from non-government entities
that the government is unable or unwilling to control.
After filming the busload of African asylum seekers in
Victorville, Fuentes posted on her YouTube account that they were being taken
to a detention center in the high desert, thumb printed, and let go.
“My friends, many Somalians are Muslim and many Africans
especially in the northern region of Africa are radical Islam terrorists. Lord
have mercy,” wrote Fuentes, whose husband, Ignacio, is a pastor.
William Gheen, president of the Americans for Legal
Immigration, or ALIPAC, said the word “asylum” has indeed become the password
for foreign nationals showing up at the border. They will be taken to a
detention center to be processed and given a court date along with contact
information for an asylum attorney and a religious charity that will help them
find housing, food and clothing.
“And they will even be given instructions on how to get
their Obamaphone,” he said. “And that video is further clear evidence that
Obama and his administration is involved in a conspiracy to overthrow America’s
defenses, laws, borders and republic by flooding America with as many people as
possible who will be dependent on the system and the socialists who helped
them,” Gheen told WND. “He’s going for broke because he knows that (Mitch)
McConnell, (John) Boehner and the other sell-out Republicans won’t stop him.
“In fact, many of those Republicans are now voting for his
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and trying to get him more bodies, more
non-Americans, into America. The name of the game is to get as many
non-Americans with alien perspectives and principles into America so that
America’s condition becomes terminal.”
“We’re fighting against every avenue we can, but our fight
right now is to try to slow them down and try to save every life we can and
every job we can,” he continued. “Tens of thousands more lives and jobs will be
lost if we lose this fight.”
The U.S. allows about 1.1 million immigrants into the
country through legal channels every year, and another 250,000 to 500,000 come
in illegally. “That’s more than any other nation on earth,” Gheen said.
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