Homeland Security chief reiterates: Syrian and
Iraqi refugees pose security threat, by Ann Corcoran, 3/17/16
They must
really be seeing something they aren’t telling us about for Homeland Security
Director Jeh Johnson to be so forthcoming at a Congressional hearing yesterday.
And, it isn’t just the Syrians and Iraqis we should worry about!
Johnson:
Refugee stream does present potential for terrorist attacks. At least someone
is being honest in the Obama Administration.
From The
Hill: The head of the
Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday said that the United States’s
acceptance of Syrian refugees could pose a national security threat.
Even as
President Obama has called for the U.S. to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees this
year, Secretary Jeh Johnson maintained during a hearing on Capitol Hill that
the initiative is not risk-free.
“In all candor, I do agree that the refugee
flow coming out of Iraq and Syria represents a potential opportunity for
terrorist organizations to move its members into other nations for potential
attacks,” Johnson
testified before the House Homeland Security Committee. “So I agree that there
is that potential, which is why just within the last several months we have
enhanced our vetting for refugees.”
The claim hints
at the problems vexing the Obama administration as it seeks to ramp up the number
of refugees brought into the country.
The administration is so far falling far
behind Obama’s pledge to bring in 10,000 new Syrian refugees this fiscal year.
Since October, the U.S. has brought in just 1,115 of the refugees.
Meanwhile,
during this same time period, Canada has admitted 25,000 Syrians with
apparently little concern for thorough vetting.
It isn’t just
Syrians we should worry about. Rescued Rohingya are being resettled in the US
by the thousands. They can’t possibly be screened any better than Syrians!
How about security
threats from other countries? What do the numbers look like?
Truth be told:
they can’t screen the others below any better than the Syrians!
Iraq: 3,476 (2,856 are Muslims)
Somalia: 3,036 (3,034 are Muslims)
Burma: 4,774 (1,135 are Muslims) Yikes! We must be making
a big push to get those Rohingya Muslims in to the US before Obama leaves
office. I had no idea the number of Burmese Muslims would be this high!
Be sure to see
our whole
category on the
Rohingya of Burma/Bangladesh. Scary! If you missed it, see the New York Times
on terror threat posed by refugee program, here.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/homeland-security-chief-reiterates-syrian-and-iraqi-refugees-pose-security-threat/
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