Monday, October 10, 2016

Obama Doubles Down on Refugees

Congress supports US invasion by Muslims, but a Bill called The Allow State Sovereignty Upon Refugee Entry (ASSURE) Act has arisen.

When Bureaucrats manage Refugees, it’s Grotesque, by Paul Bremmer, 10/8/16, WND

Plenty of commentators have said Mike Pence won his vice presidential debate with Tim Kaine Tuesday night, but the Indiana governor sustained a rebuke the previous day when a federal appeals court upheld a preliminary injunction blocking Indiana’s effort to prevent the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state.

Judge Richard Posner, writing the unanimous opinion on behalf of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, declared the state of Indiana “provides no evidence that Syrian terrorists are posing as refugees or that Syrian refugees have ever committed acts of terrorism in the United States.”

However, Pence initially suspended the resettlement of Syrians not because of anything Syrian refugees had done in the United States, but because of the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. Some of the Paris attackers had entered France among the flow of migrants and refugees from Syria.

A Pence spokeswoman noted the FBI and Department of Homeland Security had both acknowledged the process of screening refugees from Syria was fraught with security gaps. Furthermore, State Department spokesman John Kirby recently admitted ISIS terrorists are trying to blend in with refugee populations overseas in hopes of entering the U.S. posing as refugees.

Philip Haney, a retired Customs and Border Protection officer and author of “See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad,” has investigated enough threats in his life to know the U.S. needs to be careful about who it lets into the country.

“If we’re going to err, why do we not err on the side of caution?” Haney asked. “Meaning if you had children, for example, and they’re playing in your front yard, and there’s only a 1 percent chance they could run out into the street, is that an acceptable risk? Because that means there’s almost four days a year when your kids are going to run out into the street. Is that a risk any parent would take?”

“Why are we not erring on the side of preservation of security and safety of American citizens, but rather on the side of individuals who are not U.S. citizens?”

Haney pointed to another troubling piece of information: the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) reported last month that at least 31,000 individuals from “special interest countries,” meaning countries of concern regarding terrorism, crossed our southern border in 2015.

“So now you have another stream of threat that will naturally gravitate to the communities that are being established around the country, in many cases against the will of the people living in those communities,” Haney said.

Although Pence explained he wished to exclude Syrian refugees because of the safety and security threat they may pose to Indianans, Posner brushed aside that argument, writing that Pence was engaging in “discrimination on the basis of nationality.”

But discrimination is necessary in some cases, Haney said. In fact, he noted our federal government discriminates based on nationality simply by designating certain countries as “special interest countries.”

“CENTCOM noted that same classification in that population of 31,000,” Haney said. “Are they discriminating by pointing out that these people are from special interest countries? No. You have to have some form of discrimination.”


Haney asserted discrimination can also be a positive term, although it is almost always used in a negative context today.

“If you’re a discriminating aficionado of cigars, that’s a good thing, but if you’re discriminating in terms of protecting our country, somehow that becomes a bad thing,” he said. “Of course we’re discriminating! We have to, otherwise there’s no purpose for law enforcement at all – or, for that matter, borders.”

Fortunately for Pence, Haney and all those concerned about the security risk of Syrian refugees, there is hope on the horizon. On Sept. 21, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., introduced a bill that would give state governments the power to approve or disapprove the resettlement of refugees within their borders, a process now handled mostly by bureaucrats.

The Allow State Sovereignty Upon Refugee Entry (ASSURE) Act would require the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, to submit a detailed plan to each state where it wants to resettle refugees. The plan must list expected costs of housing, education, health care and any other subsidies that the state will incur. The ORR also must disclose the health records, vaccination records, criminal history and potential terrorist ties of the refugees to be resettled.

The plan would have to be ratified by the state legislature and signed by the governor in order for refugee resettlement to move forward.

Daniel Horowitz, senior editor at Conservative Review and author of “Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges From Transforming America,” praised Perry’s bill in a recent column.

“No legal body in this country – from Congress to state legislatures – would approve the resettlement of tens of thousands of Somali refugees if they had to affirmatively approve it today,” Horowitz wrote. “Unfortunately, in the most grotesque violation of the social contract and consent-based citizenship, the most radical forms of cultural transformation are in the hands of unelected entities. Scott Perry’s bill would right this ship and empower the people.”

Horowitz even went so far as to proclaim this bill could win Republicans the election if only they would pass it.

“Individual conservatives who are caught in the tortured trap between Democrats, Trump’s antics, and the perfidious party leadership would be wise to run on Perry’s state empowerment bill,” he offered. “It fuses together a major national security issue that has captured the attention of the public with the principles of federalism and state and popular sovereignty. If the left thinks turning Middle America into the Middle East is so popular, why not let the states decide?”

In a similar vein, Haney questioned the federal government’s secrecy regarding the refugee resettlement program.

“If the cause the federal government is involved in, settling refugees, is so noble, then why is it so difficult to get straightforward answers and accurate information on exactly what the costs are and what their intentions are?” the former officer asked. “If this is the federal government that we elected, why is it virtually impossible for anybody in the American public to get that information? Why is it so difficult if this is such a noble thing?”

Haney suspects if the feds told the American people the truth, Americans would quickly turn against the refugee program, making it difficult for the federal government and the UN to continue to plant refugees in American communities.

Haney agreed Perry’s bill would be a very practical proposal and a good way to restore the constitutional principle of federalism to the refugee issue, because something that affects the social fabric of America should not be shrouded in mystery.

“This is not a clandestine tactical operation in some foreign country; this is what’s going on right here in our own backyard,” Haney said. “Why so much secrecy?”

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http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/when-bureaucrats-manage-refugees-its-grotesque/

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