It is the numbers stupid! Debate (again) in wake
of Nice Islamic terror attack, Posted by Ann Corcoran on July 16, 2016
It is no
surprise that the Election 2016 debate about refugees should have begun in
earnest again after the slaughter in Nice.
But, as everyone
focuses on security screening, I want to repeat again that this is about
numbers. The Tunisian killer would not have been stopped by
security screening. He was just one of tens of thousands of Muslims
living in France because France never said NO! to more Muslim immigration.
The bottom line
is that there is a threshold that is crossed once the Muslim population reaches
a certain point where Islamists become emboldened and energized. France
is there, so are many other European countries. We don’t want to get
there, but it is coming fast. The election of Hillary Clinton will assure that
America will cross that threshold too!
Be sure to watch this you-tube video about the
Nice terror attack! (hat tip: Dick)
From Fox
News—-Hillary wants 65,000 Syrians admitted to the US and we previously
reported that the resettlement contractors want 100,000.
The terror attack Thursday in Nice, France, that left at least 84
people dead has reignited the refugee debate in the 2016 presidential race,
with Donald Trump blasting Hillary Clinton’s calls to let in thousands more and
saying, “we’d better get awfully tough.”
The terrorist behind the attack,
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was not a refugee but a French resident originally
from Tunisia. The attack nevertheless has rekindled concerns that accepting
more refugees from Islamic State-occupied Syria raises the risk for the U.S.
The Obama administration has pledged
to accept 10,000 refugees from Syria by the end of September. The Wall Street
Journal reported Wednesday that 5,211 refugees had been brought in by the end
of June and the U.S. is on track to meet the administration’s target. Clinton, though, back in September called for
increasing that number to 65,000 – a 550 percent increase from the
administration’s current target.
“I would like to see us move from what
is a good start with 10,000 to 65,000 and begin immediately to put into place
the mechanisms for vetting the people that we would take in,” she told CBS
News.
The campaign did
not return a request for comment Friday from FoxNews.com on whether those plans
might be revisited.
Trump, meanwhile,
has called for a ban on immigration from countries with a proven history of
terrorism, a shift from his previous call to temporarily ban all Muslims from
entering the United States. He doubled down on that Thursday as reports were
still coming in about the atrocity in Nice and said America had to get tougher.
“We have people
that Hillary Clinton wants 550 percent more than Obama and Obama’s allowing a
lot of people to come in. We have no idea who they are, they’re from Syria
maybe, but they have no paperwork many times,” Trump told Fox News' Greta Van
Susteren Thursday.
“We’re going to
allow thousands, and ten and thousands, more people to come in and then you see
a situation like Nice, France. It’s a horrible thing and we’d better get
awfully tough,” he said.
“I’d be making it
very, very hard to come into our country,” he said. Others echoed Trump’s call.
"No more
political correctness, no more saying the migrant issue is just one of charity,
we should let everyone in. It's time for common sense to win over,” Dr.
Sebastian Gorka, chairman of military theory at Marine Corps University, told
Fox News.
“The political
elite has to change their behavior. They can’t continue to live in an Alice in
Wonderland fantasy world where it’s about disenfranchised individuals, it’s not
about jihad,” he said.
Ira Mehlman, a
spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform – a group that
advocates for less immigration – told FoxNews.com the question was not about
allowing refugees or not, but about whether the sheer volume of refugees can be
properly vetted.
“It’s a huge
danger. The numbers make it difficult to do the kinds of vetting that’s
necessary and just the circumstances in Syria and other countries, it’s
impossible to do the big checks necessary, all while we have ISIS and other
groups telling us they intend to infiltrate operatives through the refugee
process,” he said.
Clinton has stood
by her call to keep the U.S. open to those fleeing war-torn countries, and has
said she would focus on intelligence as a way to counter the jihad threat.
“One of my
priorities is to launch an intelligence surge,” she told Fox News’ Bill
O’Reilly Thursday. “We still do not have enough intelligence cooperation between
our agencies, and those in other countries, including those in Europe.”
The Obama
administration has countered Republican warnings, saying the U.S. has much
stricter vetting procedures than Europe for accepting Syrian refugees, and the
process takes up to two years to complete.
However, there is
no in-built tracking process for refugees, who are free to move around the
United States once admitted, making it difficult to monitor them.
President Obama has
scolded Republicans for their stance on the issue, while urging compassion for
the civilians trying to escape the war-torn region. At a naturalization
ceremony in December, he said: “In the Syrian seeking refuge today, we should
see the Jewish refugee of World War II.”
Some refugee
advocacy groups have said the Obama administration’s current targets are very
modest, and have backed Clinton’s call for more to be brought in.
“The Obama administration’s 10,000 goal remains an exceedingly modest one,
when compared with the scale of the refugee crisis and the resources of the
United States,” Anwen Hughes, deputy legal director of New York-based Human
Rights First, told The Wall Street Journal.
FoxNews.com's Adam Shaw contributed to this
report.
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