No Refugee Vetting
The big lie! Refugees are being vetted, by Ann Corcoran on 9/10/16
We hear Ad nauseam that Syrian refugees
entering the US now by the thousands are being vetted in a process that has
been shrunk from the original 18-24 months down to 3 months. It is
a lie, they can’t be vetted and truth-be-told neither can the Somalis, the
Burmese Rohingya, the Afghans, the Sudanese, the Ethiopians and a good many of
the Iraqis.
Forget the most
egregious case, the Syrians, for a minute.
How do you find
data on Somalis who have wandered all over the world, some on boats to Europe
(to Malta) where we then pick them up and magically transform then into
refugees for your town?
Vetting
Rohingya boat people in Malaysia? Not a chance! Malaysia is a safe Muslim
nation, why can’t they be granted asylum in Malaysia? Why has the Obama
Administration admitted thousands to your neighborhoods? And, where are the
Republicans in Congress?
The Burmese Rohingya are leaving Burma and
Bangladesh on boats headed for places like Malaysia where we pick them up and
Catholic Charities delivers them to your towns.
We are picking
up Afghans and other Middle Easterners in, of all places, Austria in Europe.
Who are these men? Do we query the government of
Afghanistan for background data on Mohammed who has ‘made his way’ to Vienna?
These migrants are basically other countries’ illegal aliens that we take off
their hands and put on welfare in America!
Here is a good
description from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (hat tip: Paul) which
talks about the use of ‘vetting jargon’ to lull the American public into
complacency about their new neighbors.
From FAIR (emphasis is mine): “Vetting” is a
term rarely used in everyday English. Nevertheless, it has appeared regularly
in recent coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis and the mass movement of
Middle-Eastern migrants into Europe. Media outlets and government officials have
repeatedly discussed vetting as if it were some magical process that grants
access to otherwise inaccessible information. But what does vetting
really mean?
Simply put,
vetting means conducting a background check on someone. If you have ever
applied for a credit card or renewed a drivers’ license, you have been vetted.
Vetting may consist of conversations with references, as when applying for a
job; or it may consist of a review of information found in computerized
databases, as when applying for a home loan.
In the United
States, we regularly engage in business and governmental transactions where we
furnish personal information. That data is captured and stored in various
databases. When we apply for a drivers’ license the DMV captures our names,
photographs, addresses and biographical details. In some cases, our
fingerprints are also captured.
Successful vetting is dependent upon access to
information that is reliable and verifiable. Therefore, it is relatively easy
to vet people who live in the United States. As they go about their daily business,
their information is regularly captured and updated – and can be checked
against multiple government or commercial databases. It is also relatively easy to vet people who
come to America from countries where businesses and government agencies are
operated in a manner similar to the United States – as long as their
governments are willing to share information with the United States.
Problems arise when attempting to vet people
who come from countries where there are few reliable public records or
countries that are unwilling to share information.
Prior to its
civil war, Syria did not share significant amounts of background information on
its citizens with the United States. Even if Syria were now willing to share its
information, the Syrian civil war has caused the destruction of many government
records and very little reliable, verifiable information is currently being
compiled either by government or non-governmental organizations operating
within the country. As a result, Syrian passports, birth certificates, drivers’
licenses and other government documents cannot be adequately verified.
Although USCIS claims that all Syrian
applicants for refugee status are being thoroughly vetted, this is simply
untrue.
Hiding behind jargon connected with the
background check process will not conceal the shortcomings of that process. The American public has a right to
expect that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will not admit refugees,
and other seekers of immigration benefits, to the United States until it is
reasonably certain that they pose no threat to those currently residing here. Failing to deny
admission to those who have not, or cannot, be completely and thoroughly vetted
constitutes a complete abdication of DHS’s responsibilities to secure the
borders of the United States and ensure the safety of the American people.
It isn’t just the
Syrians!
Back to the Freedom
Caucus and their phony-baloney plan to attach a bill to the ‘Continuing Resolution’ requiring
the Obama Administration guarantee Syrians are being vetted, I say, what about
the Somalis, the Burmese Rohingya, the Afghans, the Ethiopians, the Iraqis, the
Sudanese etc. They aren’t being thoroughly vetted either!
I checked the US Department of State’s data
base for Muslim
refugees arriving in the US for the first 11 months of the 2016 fiscal year
(that is as of Sept. 1, 10 days ago)
and here are some of the Muslim
refugee numbers as of that date.
Syria: 10,600
Somalia: 7,967
(why are we still bringing in Somalis, it has been 30 years, does it ever end?)
Iraq: 6,840
Burma: 2,794
(they now have the Rohingya! flow in motion, look for 30 more years of this!)
Afghanistan:
2,128
Sudan: 997
Ethiopia: 456
(I didn’t do
all of the Muslim countries)
Get this! We
are constantly told that the refugees from DR
Congo are all
persecuted Christians, but this year alone we admitted 422 Muslims from the DR Congo! In
2013 we promised
the United Nations we would admit 50,000 total refugees from DR Congo over 5 years.
Without a
doubt, these migrants fleeing war and failed Middle Eastern and African
countries cannot be vetted!
It is time to DEFUND THE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT
PROGRAM!
Someday I hope
a real investigative reporter digs in to the illegal process the Bush
Administration put into place where we take some illegal alien Africans who
make it to Malta and transform them into refugees and bring them to the US. We
have a massive
archive on Malta here at RRW for your reading pleasure.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/the-big-lie-refugees-are-being-vetted/
Refugee Grants
Mormons helping Catholic Bishops change America with Muslim
refugees, go figure? by Ann Corcoran 9/10/16
Don’t ask me
why. Don’t ask me why Mormons want to change Utah and America. Don’t ask me if
the Mormons have run out of poor Americans to help. Don’t ask me if the Mormons
know that almost all Syrians coming to the US are Muslims. Don’t ask me if they
know that Syrians and Somalis can’t
be properly vetted. Don’t ask me why the Catholic bishops don’t insist on resettling
persecuted Christians. It is all a great mystery.
What isn’t a great
mystery is that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee
Services is 97% taxpayer funded. Does it need the Mormon money too? (I
guess you can never have enough money.)
Here is the good news for the Bishops from the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. bishops’ Migration
and Refugee Services is receiving a $1.25 million grant from the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to aid in its refugee resettlement efforts
once the newcomers arrive in the United States. Bill Canny heads the USCCB Washington
office. http://www.usccb.rg/news/2015/15-078.cfm
The Mormons, as
the denomination’s adherents are popularly known, have refugee processing
capabilities overseas, said MRS executive director Bill Canny, but do not offer
domestic resettlement services.
Canny told Catholic News Service that this is
the first time in memory that the Mormons have made such a gift to an agency
within the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, although Catholic Relief Services,
the U.S. bishops’ overseas aid and development organization, has received
grants from the Mormons dating to the Ethiopian famine more than 30 years ago.
Grants of this
nature, of this size, Canny added, don’t often happen, “not often enough.” Canny
said the Mormons had conducted a successful fundraising drive to aid Syrian
refugees. Afterward, “they then approached nine resettlement agencies, offering
each of them a gift to help with resettling refugees currently. So they got in
touch with us as one of the resettlement agencies. We began to discuss how to
distribute the money and the in-kind goods, and we wrote a small project for
them, and they agreed to it and gave us the go-ahead.”
Of the $1.25
million, $425,000 is in cash while the remaining $800,000 is an in-kind
contribution from the Mormons, according to Canny. Continue
reading here.
You can thank
the Bishops for the thousands of Rohingya coming to a town near you! See here. See especially Esar Met, convicted of
murder in Salt Lake City, UTAH.
Since I’ve been
writing about the taxpayer funding that the resettlement contractors received
in 2014, here is what the US Bishops got. Screenshot of page 10 from
their Annual
Report for 2014 (maybe they have a Form 990, but I
can’t readily find one). See Link for
Report.
The Report shows a total of
$85,406,950 with $79,590,512 in federal grants and $3,401,622 in travel loan
collection fees.
If you are checking my math, you need
to add the federal grants line to the travel loan collection fees because those
fees are really your money too. The contractors collect the airfare loan
money (that you loaned the refugees) and keep a cut of it for themselves. The
loan money does not all return to the US Treasury.
By the way, individual Catholic
Charities may be getting additional federal/state or local grants. I
suggest you visit USA Spending.gov and look up your local Catholic diocese or
Catholic Charities. Click here. You will
be amazed at what you find.
Previously I
reported that Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
is 95% funded by you, and USCRI, another of the nine
federal contractors, is 97% funded by you.
Cut off their federal funding and they would be out of business!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/mormons-helping-catholic-bishops-change-america-with-muslim-refugees-go-figure/
Don’t get suckered again by failed Freedom Caucus ploy
from last year on Syrian refugee ‘pause’, by Ann Corcoran 9/9/16
Fool me once, shame on
you; fool me twice, shame on me!
Do they think
we are that stupid!
Before you read
on, see my previous post about how these Continuing Budget Resolutions have perverted Constitutional
government. The Republicans have been complicit in this travesty.
News earlier
this week indicated that the House ‘Freedom
Caucus’ is thinking about pushing the leadership for
the add-on of a bill to the ‘continuing budget resolution’ (CR) to supposedly
pause the flow of Syrians to the US!
(Their plans
may already have changed, since this Politico story is a couple of days old). It
failed last year because Speaker Ryan knew it wouldn’t pass the Senate.
Here is the gist of it: The House Freedom Caucus is targeting
must-pass spending legislation as a potential bargaining chip to halt the Obama
administration’s Syrian refugee resettlement program — a move sure to
complicate GOP leaders’ hopes of heading off any government shut-down talk by
quickly passing a stop-gap measure.
The Freedom
Caucus, meanwhile, stopped short of adopting a formal strategy on the so-called
continuing resolution. Many expected the caucus to vote on Tuesday to oppose a
short-term stopgap spending measure that runs out in December. Several of their
conservative allies off the Hill have asked leadership to punt any major budget
decisions into spring of 2017.
But rather than flat-out opposing the
short-term CR, the group of conservative lawmakers instead hashed out a
preliminary plan to play hardball during its weekly meeting at Hunan Dynasty on Capitol
Hill Tuesday evening.
They’re
planning to tell leadership they will back a short-term funding package if they
can tuck in a
bill by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) to stop the resettlement program until the
administration “can assure no terrorists or individuals with radical sympathies
or views will be admitted,” according to a summary of the bill. So, what do they
think Obama will say? He will assure them in a nanosecond!
Politico continued: While not an outright refusal to support a
short-term CR, their demands could still spark a major legislative battle that
gums up appropriations: While the refugees matter passed the House early this
year, it died in the Senate, which needs Democratic votes to send anything to
the president’s desk. Obama, likewise, is almost certain to reject a spending
bill that includes such a provision.
“There was some
discussion about doing a shorter-term CR if we had a commitment from leadership
to attach and keep attached a pause on Syrian Refugees coming in until we have
a better vetting system to identity the terrorists,” said one Freedom Caucus
member who asked not to be identified. “We haven’t taken a formal position, but
there was a lot of discussion about that and many of the members felt that was
a reasonable request.” They know you are angry as hell! This is really just a
sop to you.
All they really
need to do is
CUT THE FUNDING ACROSS THE BOARD FOR THE PROGRAM TO WHATEVER LEVEL THEY HAVE
THE GUTS TO FIGHT FOR! (Remember there are other concerns with the
refugee program besides the Syrian flood, Somalis have proven to be a
problematic group as well!).
Now, for a good laugh! A meaningless show vote!
See what World
Net Daily reported LAST year about this same failed
strategy: House Speaker Paul Ryan is lining up a showdown vote for Thursday on
President Obama’s plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States.
Throwing
a bone! Speaker Ryan knew that the Syrian ‘pause’ would go nowhere in the
Senate. But
conservatives on Capitol Hill who want to see the refugee program halted are
warning that Ryan’s plan is nothing but a smokescreen designed to give
lip-service while refusing to defund the program.
Ryan likely has
no intention of cutting off the flow of Muslim refugees into the U.S., nor does
he plan to ensure Syria’s persecuted Christian minority gets rescued from the
clutches of ISIS, sources told WND.
But WND has
learned from insiders on Capitol Hill that Ryan’s end objective is not to close
down a program that has delivered more than 1.5 million Muslim refugees to
American cities and towns since 1990 under a law authored in 1980 by then-Sen.
Joe Biden and the late Teddy Kennedy.
A conservative Capitol Hill aide told WND,
“Paul Ryan is setting us up for a meaningless show vote on Syrian refugees so
the White House can continue the influx of Muslim refugees this year and all
the years to follow as it always has.
“Putting Ryan
in charge of a fight to block refugees would be like putting (Nancy) Pelosi in
charge of fight to repeal Obamacare,” the staffer said. “No one loves mass
immigration more than Ryan, so how exactly is he going to make a public
argument against it? He can’t and won’t, leaving Democrats unharmed, unscathed
and unafraid.”
Members of the
House Intelligence, Armed Services and Homeland Security panels will meet this
week to come up with legislation the House will vote on by Thursday.
The “show vote” will likely occur on North
Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson’s American SAFE Act of 2105, the source said, a
toothless bill that would allow Obama to continue the transfer of Middle
Eastern refugees to the U.S. with certain assurances that they are being
“certified” as having no connections to terrorism.
Babin bill has
more teeth. A
much stronger bill, the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act
introduced by Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, is not being moved to a vote by Ryan.
The Texas congressman’s bill would halt all resettlements until a full
accounting of the program’s cost and risks to national security can be fully
assessed. And, of course
Ryan still won’t move it this year!
Defund refugee resettlement! I want to
impress upon you how important this funding issue is. The Refugee
Industry understands it very well or else they wouldn’t be planning their big
push on Congress during this next week and into the week of the 19th when Obama
goes to the United Nations to guilt-trip America into ‘welcoming’ hundreds of
thousands of impoverished people to America. You must push back and do it now!
If you are
reading RRW for the first time, see our tag ‘Where is Congress’ and read about what
you need to be doing!
By the way if
the CR is short term (until December), you might have a great opportunity in
October when they are all home trying to get elected to really hammer them on
defunding refugee resettlement. But, you can’t count on that, so you must
hit them before Obama goes to the United Nations! Better still, hit them
this next week before the refugee industry does its postcard
drop on the 15th. The Freedom
Caucus members are listed
here. Does
one of these members represent you?
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/dont-get-suckered-again-by-failed-freedom-caucus-ploy-from-last-year-on-syrian-refugee-pause/
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