75% of
'refugees' are men of military age, by Leo Hohmann, 9/8/15, WND
The Obama
administration is “actively considering” ways to help relieve the European
migrant crisis, and among the options on the table is a massive resettlement of
“refugees” inside the United States.
Peter
Boogaard, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told the Associate
Press the United States is in contact with countries in the Middle East and
Europe grappling with the migration of nearly 400,000 Middle Eastern and
African migrants into Europe.
Boogaard
did not elaborate on specific measures being considered, but said they included
“refugee resettlement.”
“Many are
fleeing the civil war in Syria and areas in Iraq under the control of Islamic
State militants,” the AP reported.
But a
closer look at the United Nations refugee agency’s data shows that many of the
so-called refugees are likely not refugees at all.
According
to data from the U.N. high commissioner
for refugees,
75 percent of the migrants who arrived on European soil are men, while 13
percent are children and 12 percent women.
And only
a slight majority, 51 percent, of the refugees are Syrian. The remainder are
from all over the Middle East and North Africa and many have purchased the
passports of dead Syrians.
These
passports are easily acquired on the black market in the Middle East, said
journalist Daniel Greenfield in an interview Sunday with the Glazov Gang.
“People
are just buying Syrian passports, because at the end of the day, how are you
going the check them in the middle of a bloody civil war, where hundreds of
thousands of people are dead?” he asked. “You can’t just call the Syrians over
the phone and ask, ‘Is this guy legitimately living over at 424 Destroyed City
Lane?’ So you’ve got a whole bunch of people who are pretending to be Syrian
refugees. It’s a major problem in France. It’s a major problem in Europe. It’s
a major problem here (in the U.S.), but the Obama administration is really
eager to find new undocumented Democratic voters anywhere it can.”
Watch
Middle Eastern migrants shouting “Allahu Akbar” followed by angry chants while
being transported on a train in France:
John
Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a scholar at the
American Enterprise Institute, said the refugee crisis is being driven by
"two errors" – Obama's failed promise to "degrade and
destroy" ISIS, and Germany's "irresponsible" announcement to lay
out the welcome mat for 800,000 migrants. That invitation has caused Turkey to
start emptying out its refugee camps, Bolton told Fox News, sending them on
toward Europe.
"But
even once you have a flow of refugees like this. It's not the first time the
world has seen something like this. We know what needs to be done," Bolton
told Fox News. "Turkey has not stepped up. Germany was irresponsible to
say they would accept 800,000 refugees ... which has created a magnet there
drawing these refugees, with Turkey allowing people to cross through its
territory into Europe."
Will
Obama make announcement on refugees during pope's visit?
With Pope
Francis due to arrive in the United States Sept. 23 to address Congress and the
United Nations, some are speculating that Obama could be gearing up for a big
announcement on refugees timed in accordance with the pope's visit.
"Obama
might announce it when the pope is here," Ann Corcoran, author of the blog
site Refugee Resettlement Watch, told WND. "That
would be perfect timing. If I'm Obama, I see that as the perfect opportunity
for maximum world exposure on this issue. So my guess is something big is going
to be announced."
Corcoran
said she would not be surprised if Obama announced the U.S. will resettle
150,000 or more refugees in 2016, more than double the amount it has taken in
in recent years.
GOP
front-runner Donald Trump, in an interview with MSNBC over the weekend, was
asked whether the U.S. should assist the European countries and accept some of
the migrants.
"We
have so many problems, and the answer is, possibly, yes," Trump said.
Big
business
Refugee
resettlement is a nearly $1.5 billion program in the U.S. overseen by the U.S.
State Department in which nine private agencies resettle foreign refugees into
more than 190 cities and towns across the U.S. The agencies are paid by the
federal government to do this work and they in turn subcontract with smaller
agencies and church groups to carry out the work of finding shelter for the
refugees, signing them up for government welfare programs and getting their
children enrolled in public schools.
More than
95 percent of all refugees who enter the United States are hand selected by the
U.N. refugee agency. The nearly $1.5 billion price tag does not include the
cost of providing social welfare benefits and education to the refugees.
The nine
resettlement agencies have been lobbying Washington for months to dramatically
increase the number of Syrian refugees accepted into the United States. The
U.S. has for years been accepting a total of about 70,000 foreign refugees per
year from all countries. But the resettlement agencies have been pushing the
White House and Congress to accept 65,000 from Syria alone by the end of 2016.
The nine
agencies lobbying Obama and Congress to accept more refugees receive hundreds
of millions of dollars in federal taxpayer dollars.
They are as follows: The Lutheran
Immigration and Refugee Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International
Rescue Committee (secular), Church World Services, World Relief (made up of
evangelicals), the Ethiopian Community Development Council (secular) and the
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (secular).
Saudi
Arabia, Gulf states take zero refugees
While
Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan have been swamped with Syrian and Iraqi refugees
fleeing ISIS and other jihadist groups, some of the most wealthy Middle East
countries have been notably absent from the discussion of where Syrian Muslims
should be welcomed.
The
Saudis haven't offered to take any refugees, nor have they been publicly called
upon by the U.N. and the resettlement agencies to do so. Ditto for Oman, the
United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, even though these states offer
geographic proximity and a common culture based on Islam and Shariah law.
This lack
of responsiveness by the Saudis and other Gulf states was spotlighted by Amnesty International, which also noted that
wealthy countries such as Japan, Russia, Singapore and South Korea also have
taken zero refugees from Syria.
To date,
the Obama administration has committed to taking 5,000 to 8,000 Syrians by the
end of 2016, about 1,500 of which have already entered the U.S. and are now
being resettled in various cities and towns.
Germany
opens its doors wide
Germany
has committed to take 800,000 refugees this year, by far the largest commitment
of any country and more than four times the number of refugees Germany accepted
last year.
German
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that Germany could take 500,000 refugees
annually "for years," according to the Guardian. She told the BBC that the "breathtaking" influx of
refugees into Germany will "occupy and change" Germany in the coming
years.
She said
Germany would speed up asylum procedures and build extra housing but called on
other E.U. countries to help.
The U.K.
will take 20,000 over five years and France agreed to receive 24,000. Venezuela
announced Tuesday it would take 20,000 Syrians.
But not
all European countries are laying out the welcome mat for the refugees, more
than 95 percent of which they know are Muslims even though talk of religious
affiliation is taboo in the mainstream European press just as it is in America.
Denmark
has placed advertisements in Lebanese newspapers announcing tighter regulations
and cuts in welfare provisions in an attempt to warn off asylum seekers. The
advertisement published on Monday said that social assistance for newly arrived
refugees was being reduced by up to 50 percent, Al-Jazeera reported. Hungary,
whose prime minister, Viktor Orban, said last week Hungary does not want to lose
its Christian heritage, is also in a defensive posture and plans to build an
8-foot fence along its southern border.
Debate
heating up in United States
In the
U.S., the debate is heating up concerning how many Syrians should be accepted
into American cities and towns. This is a pivotal time of year for refugee
lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill.
Each year
between Sept. 18 and Sept. 30 the White House sends a letter to Congress
outlining the federal ceiling for refugees that will be allowed into the country
over the next fiscal year starting Oct. 1. The current 70,000 ceiling may be
jacked up considerably to accommodate the Syrian refugees and now the migrant
crisis in Europe.
While the
nine resettlement agencies are lobbying for more refugees, there is a nascent
effort in Congress to halt all refugee resettlement until the program can be
fully audited and its impact on U.S. communities can be tabulated. Rep. Brian
Babin, R-Texas, sponsored the Resettlement Accountability National Security
Act, or H.R. 3314, on July 30 and is actively seeking co-sponsors from his
colleagues in the GOP-dominated House.
Others,
such as Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, have warned that the Syrian refugee
program has the potential to become a "jihadist pipeline" into the
U.S. for ISIS and other terrorist groups. ISIS operatives have promised they
will use the refugee programs to infiltrate the West. In a February article in
BuzzFeed, an ISIS operative said the group had already assembled 4,000 trained
fighters in Europe by using this method of infiltration.
Yet, 14
Democrat senators in May sent a letter to President Obama urging him to
"dramatically increase" the number of Syrian refugees allowed into
the U.S. Several of the nine resettlement agencies cited this letter in their
lobbying efforts with the administration.
None of
the Democrat senators, nor any of the resettlement agencies has mentioned in
their lobbying memos and talking points that Christians are the most threatened
group of people in Syria and Iraq or that Christians should be given any kind
of priority in the refugee program.
Mideast
Christians left out in the cold
Most
Christians in Syria and Iraq are afraid to even go to the U.N. refugee camps,
fearing they will not be treated with respect by the many Muslims who have been
placed in positions of authority at the camps, WND has previously reported. As
a result, those who have been run out of their homes by ISIS and other jihadist
groups end up fleeing to another town and hiding in churches or homes of other
Christians. At some point, WND has been told, the Christians will run out of
places to hide.
Those who
are caught are given the option of converting to Islam, paying a special tax to
Islam or execution, often by beheading or crucifixion.
Among the
1,500 Syrians brought to the U.S. so far, 95 percent have been Muslim.
Bolton
told Fox News that the European crisis should not result in wholesale
resettlements of Middle Eastern refugees in the West.
"It
doesn't mean the West, Europe or the U.S., has an obligation to take these
people in to resettle them. Our obligation is to provide assistance in Turkey.
Standard refugee doctrine is that repatriation is the preferred response and
resettlement only the secondary option," Bolton said. "But what
Germany has done is change the equation, and by saying they're willing to take
800,000 people in even if it's on a humanitarian visa for five years, those
people are never leaving. This has caused enormous turmoil in Europe," he
continued. "In Hungary and Austria the people are saying 'we never agreed
to this.' They're not all going to make it to Germany, and they're not all
going to stay in Germany. And I think ultimately it could be more than 800,000
on the move, and I think they will try to come here (to the U.S.) as well, This
is where the threat of ISIS or other terrorist groups taking the opportunity of
this human tragedy to infiltrate their own (terrorists) into the United States
comes into play."
At the
same time the U.N. and its affiliated NGOs have been clamoring for more refugee
resettlement of Muslim refugees into the U.S. and Europe, residents of the
cities and towns where refugees are being sent are starting to organize against
the influx of refugees from the Third World, arguing that it's too expensive to
house and educate all of the low-skilled new arrivals, which also take jobs
away from unemployed Americans.
Uprisings
have been gaining traction in St. Cloud, Minnesota; Spartanburg, South
Carolina, Fargo, North Dakota, and Twin Falls, Idaho.
Should
Obama bring tens of thousands of Muslims to U.S.?
The
European crisis has also led to calls for the U.S. to expedite its refugee
program and making it easier for immigrants to navigate the time-consuming
process. The U.S. has in the past expedited resettlement, as in 1975 when it
helped tens of thousands of refugees from South Vietnam and other nearby areas
settle in the United States after the fall of Saigon to the communists.
President Reagan also made it easier for thousands of Christians and Jews
escaping communist Russia to come to the U.S.
But
unlike those Christians and Jews, Corcoran maintains that today's refugees do
not share the religious and cultural values of America and will face formidable
barriers to assimilation.
Alveda
King, a civil rights leader, pro-life activist and niece to the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, agreed that the U.S. should not open its doors wholesale to
refugees from Shariah-compliant communities in any case and even large numbers
of non-Muslims would be difficult to integrate in today's difficult economic
climate.
"We
cannot open up our arms and doors yet until we are strong," King told WND.
"Coretta Scott-King was a liberal and even she did not support open
borders. I learned that from her. Even though we were polar opposites, we
agreed on that."
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Source: WND, 9/8/15
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