Grassley
and Goodlatte blast Obama Admin on secret Australian ‘refugee’ deal, by
Ann Corcoran 11/23/16
Got guts! This is a good sign from
Congress (a sign perhaps that Trump’s victory is providing some backbone!).
Senator Chuck Grassley and Rep. Bob
Goodlatte chairmen of their respective Judiciary Committees have sent a
strongly worded letter to the Obama Administration telling them to release to
the public information on a secret deal to admit to the US rejected asylum
seekers held in Australian offshore detention centers. We reported the
news here and here last
week.
Remember readers, these are mostly
Muslims (who attempted to break into Australia by boat) who have had their
asylum claims rejected—Australia does not want them!
Setting precedents! There are many important concerns in
this letter, but one issue in particular caught my eye, the idea of setting a
precedent which is something I’ve been hammering for years. Deals like this are
going on elsewhere in the refugee program and it is wrong.
I’ll direct you to the issue of Malta
and the FACT that we have been admitting aliens who arrived on the EUROPEAN
island of Malta from Libya and other African hellholes (surely undocumented
with only their personal stories to rely on!) by transforming them into
refugees and placing them in your American towns ever since the Bush
Administration. These are Europe’s illegal aliens and
not our concern! (just as this new batch is Australia’s problem).
Congress and the new President can
quickly plug this hole (See our 8-year-old Malta archive here),
and we must stop these foolish “deals” wherever they are occurring. Of course, deal implies we get something
in exchange, but what we get is never clear!
For new readers, this was point #7 in
my ‘Ten Reasons there must be a MORATORIUM’ on refugee resettlement (first
published in 2012!). Our Australia category is here.
Australian press thinks its unlikely US will
take rejected ‘refugees’ off their hands, by Ann Corcoran 11/23/16
Mr
Trump! Forget Syrians for a minute! Are we going to suspend resettlement of all
‘high-risk aliens?’
Here is a story from Sky
News Australia which links Trump
advisor Kris Kobach’s proposals to Trump last weekend in NJ as evidence that
the deal might well be dead on arrival. See my earlier post this morning about a letter from two powerful members
of Congress who want the fishy Australia deal stopped now!
Sky News titters about photo that
reveals some of Kobach’s suggestions to the Trump team on immigration: An apparent bungle by US president-elect
Donald Trump’s hardline immigration adviser shows just how difficult Australian
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s US refugee re-settlement plan will likely be
to pull off.
Kris Kobach, tipped to head the US
Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration, was clutching
documents as he stood with a smiling and waving Mr Trump on Sunday in view of
the media.
A photo taken by Associated Press, when
zoomed in, shows the top page of the document is headlined ‘Department of
Homeland Security. Kobach Strategic Plan for First 365 Days’. It lists aggressive
proposals aimed at ‘high-risk aliens.’ ‘Reduce intake of Syrian refugees to
zero, using authority under the 1980 Refugee Act,’ Mr Kobach’s plan states.The plan also calls for ‘extreme vetting
questions for high-risk aliens: question them regarding support for Sharia Law,
jihad, equality of men and women, the United States Constitution’.
Mr Kobach was one of many potential
Trump administration hires who met with the president-elect at the Trump
National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey on the weekend.
Readers, I am starting to get nervous
about whether Trump’s closest advisors on immigration fully understand the US
Refugee Admissions Program.
In my previous post I
said that if Trump picks Romney in combination with
Nikki Haley at the UN (where the UN has plans for who comes to your towns!), we
shouldn’t expect any major shakeup of the RAP.
Let’s talk about
HIGH-RISK ALIENS!
There has been enormous national
attention on the fact that FBI Director Comey testified to Congress that Syrians cannot be vetted because they come from a failed state
where records are not obtainable. And, it is understandable that the focus has
been on the Syrians, but if you are a longtime reader of RRW you know this is
also true for the vast majority of Somalis (tens of thousands) we have admitted
over the last two-three decades.
In fact, in 2008 the State Department
(DOS) cut off family reunification for Somalis because they discovered wide
spread fraud. Somalis lied
about their family connections! Family reunification was closed for
years (all documented here at RRW). See the most recent news on Somalis who thumbed their noses at
your generosity.
The DOS and DHS say they can vet the
Iraqis. But, they screwed up big time a few years ago and Iraqi
refugee Al-Qaeda supporters were arrested and convicted on terror charges in
Kentucky. One of them actually had fingerprints on
an IED shard in US government hands and no one ever made the connection. That IED
killed American service men. These two had lied on
their refugee application.
And, how are we possibly screening the
Rohingya Muslims who have fled Burma, many on boats that ended
up in Malaysia and Indonesia. We are taking thousands of them!
They don’t have ‘papers’ from the government of Burma (a Buddhist government
that is all too happy to get rid of them)!
Other countries that produce unvettable
(new word!) Muslims are Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uzbekistan. Just those
few countries mentioned above account for probably half of the flow to the US
right now! So, Mr. Trump
and Mr. Kobach! Stop focusing on only Syrians! The problem is much much bigger!
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