A Hungarian government
official made an astounding prediction Friday that up to 35 million migrants
could flood into Europe as part of a historic population shift, as yet another
European country felt the pain.
The comment from
Hungary’s foreign minister came as Republicans in Congress have started signing
on to a bill that would close the U.S. off to refugees for the foreseeable
future, a direct counter-punch to President Obama’s plan to bring in 85,000
foreign refugees next year, including 10,000 from ISIS controlled territory in
Syria.
But time is running out
for Europe, where the days of debating policy in a crisis-free environment are
over. First Serbia and Hungary, then Germany and now Croatia have watched what
many are now calling an invasion of migrants bullying their way across
sovereign borders, many of them young men carrying false identification or no
identification at all.
Major media outlets such
as the BBC, CNN and NBC continue to paint the crisis as a spontaneous event
caused by people “fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan,” as the BBC
reported. But those conflicts have been going on for years and the war-refugee
narrative was refuted by a former Egyptian military officer in an interview
with WND earlier this week.
The surge at Croatia’s
border started after Hungary closed off its border three days ago. Thousands of
migrants broke through Croatian police lines at Tovarnik and Bezdan,
overwhelming the border patrol units who refrained from using non-lethal force,
such as water cannons or tear gas.
Croatia’s interior
minister says the country is “absolutely full.” And Hungary’s foreign minister,
Peter Szijjártó, told
the Hungarian Times that 30 to 35 million
migrants could end up making the trip by sea and land to Europe from the
destabilized Third World.
“It’s a self delusion to
call this situation a migration crisis; it is a massive migration of nations,
with inexhaustible reserves,” Szijjártó told the newspaper. “I don’t think that
the analysis results, stating that 30-35 million people out there could
possibly become migrants, would be an exaggeration.
“Libya, Yemen, Syria,
Iraq and Afghanistan are all countries with a huge population and an extremely
unstable situation.”
Rep McCaul joins effort
to halt all refugee resettlement in U.S.
Meanwhile, in the United
States, a bill introduced recently by Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, calling for a
halt of all refugee resettlement until the full impact of the program can be
studied, has picked up
10 co-sponsors in the last few days. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the chairman
of the House Homeland Security Committee, became the latest co-sponsor of HR
3314 or the Refugee
Accountability National Security Act, joining Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, and Rep.
Walter Jones, R-N.C., among others.
Notable by his absence
from the list of co-sponsors so far is Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who chairs the
House subcommittee on immigration and border security and who also has had an
uprising among constituents in his own home district who are unhappy about
being selected as a location for Syrian refugees.
Obama's role in creating
the crisis
The refugee crisis was
caused largely by Obama’s own inept foreign policy, Babin told
Breitbart. "He drew red
lines in the sand [that were] routinely crossed, never did a thing. He pulled
everybody out of Iraq against the good advice of his own commanders,” he
continued. "He did not force issues with the prime minister of Iraq, nor
did he in Afghanistan. I think he can only look in the mirror and say, 'Hey
this is my creation.'"
Aside from the costs of
the program – at least $1 billion a year not including the cost of welfare
benefits used by the refugees – Babin and McCaul have both been sounding the
alarm that ISIS will exploit the refugee program to infiltrate the U.S. ISIS operatives
have themselves promised to do exactly that, just as they have in Europe. "We
are crazy to be inviting the problems of the Middle East into the United
States," Babin said.
According to the U.N.'s
own data, at least 71 percent of the migrants flooding Europe are military-aged
men 20-30 years old. Only 15 percent are children and 13 percent are women.
The U.S. has been
receiving 70,000 foreign refugees per year, more than any other nation, for the
past several years. They are selected by the United Nations, screened by the
FBI and resettled into more than 190 cities and towns across America.
Obama wants 185,000
refugees over two years
President Obama wants to
increase that number to 85,000 in fiscal 2016, which starts Oct. 1, and to
100,000 in fiscal 2017.
To date, Obama has
resettled more than 500,000 Third World refugees into U.S. cities and towns
since he took office.
For many smaller cities,
like Bowling Green, Kentucky, and New Bern, North Carolina, it doesn't take
long to completely change the local demographics. (See map below of the growing
number of mosques built across the U.S., a majority of them financed with money
from Saudi Arabia, a Muslim-only country that allows no churches within its
borders and which has accepted zero refugees from Syria but is more than happy
to build mosques in Western countries that accept Muslim migrants.)
Some small U.S. towns
receiving hundreds of Muslim refugees
Jones, the North
Carolina congressman from New Bern, notes the high ratio of welfare usage by
Middle Eastern refugees, more than 91 percent are on food stamps, and 68
percent receive cash welfare assistance. He said solid data for the cost to
state and local governments is not available.
"H.R. 3314 would
suspend the president’s action and only allow for the program to be resumed if
Congress voted to do so," Jones said.
Even the tiny town of
New Bern, with a population of just over 30,000, has received 1,944 foreign
refugees since 2002, according to State Department databases.
"We need to
determine how much this program is costing taxpayers, and we need to make sure
the people we are letting in aren’t radical Islamic terrorists. Until then, the
program ought to be suspended," said Jones.
According to a recent study
by the Senate immigration committee, there have been 72
cases since July 2014 involving
likely Muslim immigrants arrested for terrorist activity.
More than 50 Somali
refugees have traveled or tried to travel abroad to join ISIS, al-Shabab and
al-Qaida, most of them from Minnesota, including
one, Zacharia Yusuf Abdurah, 20,
who pleaded guilty Thursday to providing material support to terrorists. He
admitted that he and eight other men met 10 to 15 times in local mosques, parks
and restaurants to talk about routes to Syria and how to finance their trip.
But Jones is equally
concerned about the cost.
"We are over 18
trillion dollars in debt. We don’t even have money to fix roads and schools for
Americans who pay taxes and already live here. Instead of taking in thousands
of immigrants and refugees from countries that breed radical Islamic
terrorists, we should be focusing our efforts on urging stable Middle Eastern
countries to allow refugees to resettle closer to their homeland."
The Muslim Gulf states
of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain have taken zero refugees from Syria
and Iraq to date.
According to the federal
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), between 2008 and 2013 the United States
admitted 115,617 refugees from the Middle East. Another 308,805 people from the
Middle East were given green cards during that time, meaning a total of 424,422
immigrants from the Middle East settled in the United States in five years —
nearly half a million.
Overall, according to
the Migration Policy Institute, the U.S. has taken in about 20 percent of the
world's international migrants, even as it represents less than 5 percent of
the global population. EU leaders will hold an emergency summit next week to
discuss the crisis.
Watch
video of Muslim migrants pushing through a wire fence and then several thousand
stream into Croatia:
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