NO EVIDENCE? HOW ABOUT 72
TERROR CONVICTIONS, Judge claimed no 'arrests' from
travelers from Trump 7 nations, 2/12/17, WND
WASHINGTON – As
WND reported more than a week ago, the
federal judge from Seattle who issued a halt to President Trump’s executive
order temporarily barring entry to the U.S. by travelers from seven nations
because of concerns over potential terror threats erred badly when he said
there had been no arrest of foreign nationals from those countries since 9/11.
A new report shows that at least 72
such individuals have indeed been convicted of terrorism-related offenses. Later, a review by the 9th Circuit
Court of Appeal upheld the order by federal Judge James Robart saying there was
“no evidence” any of those nations had produced a terror threat to the U.S.
The nations designated by Trump’s
order are Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia – now known as the
“Trump 7.” Each, indeed, has produced at least one individual convicted of
terror-related charges, according
to a report by a Senate committee in 2016,
no longer publicly available but obtained by the Center for Immigration
Studies.
In a courtroom exchange that took
place Friday, Feb. 3, with Department of Justice lawyer Michelle Bennett,
federal Judge James L. Robart, asked, “How many arrests have there been of
foreign nationals from those seven countries since 9/11”? “I don’t know the
specific details of attacks or planned attacks,” said Bennett, who is from the
Department of Justice’s Civil Division. “The answer to that is none, as best I
can tell,” said the judge.
A
preliminary report published by WND a day later showed Robart was clearly wrong – travelers
and immigrants from the seven countries have indeed been involved in the
murders of Americans and other heinous crimes.
“I’m not sure what this judge was
thinking but he clearly wasn’t in touch with the facts when he issued his
decision to block President Trump’s temporary block on travel from these seven
countries,” said Leo Hohmann, author of the new investigative book “Stealth
Invasion: Muslim Conquest through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad.”
Hohmann pointed out that it’s not
only terrorism that has been a problem with regard to the resettlement of Third
World refugees. The number of sexual assaults is also mounting.
“As I found in my research for
‘Stealth Invasion,’ many of the sexual assaults by refugees are covered up by
local law enforcement and the media,” Hohmann said. “So we don’t know how many
of these incidents have taken place, but we do know they are more common than
what we hear or see reported in the media.”
The Trump administration chose the
seven countries for the watch list because they were designated as essentially
lawless nations by the Obama administration – those from which terrorists are
known to be traveling to evade identification.
Trump’s executive order made this
clear: “Numerous foreign-born individuals have been convicted or implicated in
terrorism-related crimes since September 11, 2001, including foreign nationals
who entered the United States after receiving visitor, student or employment
visas, or who entered through the United States refugee-resettlement program.
Deteriorating conditions in certain
countries due to war, strife, disaster and civil unrest increase the likelihood
that terrorists will use any means possible to enter the United States. The
United States must be vigilant during the visa-issuance process to ensure that
those approved for admission do not intend to harm Americans and that they have
no ties to terrorism.”
Meanwhile, the new report, compiled
by a Senate committee in 2016 reveals that at least 72 individuals from the
seven countries covered in President Trump’s vetting executive order have been
convicted in terror cases since the 9/11 attacks.
While the Obama administration
refused to provide any government accounting of terror cases over the last
eight years, in June 2016, the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the
National Interest, then chaired by new Attorney General Jeff Sessions, released
a report on individuals convicted in terror cases, using only open sources.
The report found that 380 out of 580
people convicted in terror cases since 9/11 were foreign-born. The information
compiled includes names of offenders, dates of conviction, terror group
affiliation, federal criminal charges, sentence imposed, state of residence,
and immigration history.
The Center for Immigration Studies
has extracted information on 72 individuals named in the Senate report whose
country of origin is one of the seven terror-associated countries included in
the vetting executive order. The Senate researchers, relying primarily on media
reports, were not able to obtain complete information on each convicted
terrorist, so it is possible that more of the convicted terrorists are from
these countries.
Convicted terrorists from Trump 1
nations include: Somalia 20, Yemen 19, Iraq 19, Syria 7, Iran 4, Libia 2, Sudan
1.according to the US Senate subcommittee report 2016.
The United States has admitted
terrorists from all of the seven dangerous countries.
According to the report, at least 17
individuals entered as refugees from these terror-prone countries. Three came
in on student visas and one arrived on a diplomatic visa.
At least 25 of these immigrants
eventually became citizens. Ten were lawful permanent residents, and four were
illegal aliens.
These immigrant terrorists lived in
at least 16 different states, with the largest number from the
terror-associated countries living in New York (10), Minnesota (8), California
(8), and Michigan (6). Ironically, Minnesota was one of the states suing to
block Trump’s order to pause entries from the terror-associated countries,
claiming it would harm the state. At least two of the terrorists were living in
Washington, which joined with Minnesota in the lawsuit to block the order.
Thirty-three of the 72 individuals
from the seven terror-associated countries were convicted of very serious
terror-related crimes, and were sentenced to at least three years imprisonment.
The crimes included use of a weapon of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit a
terror act, material support of a terrorist or terror group, international
money-laundering conspiracy, possession of explosives or missiles and unlawful
possession of a machine gun.
Some opponents of the travel
suspension have tried to claim that the Senate report was flawed because it
included individuals who were not necessarily terrorists because they were
convicted of crimes such as identity fraud and false statements. About a dozen
individuals in the group from the seven terror-associated countries are in this
category.
Some are individuals who were
arrested and convicted in the months following 9/11 for involvement in a
fraudulent hazardous materials and commercial driver’s license scheme that was
extremely worrisome to law enforcement and counter-terrorism agencies, although
a direct link to the 9/11 plot was never claimed.
Interestingly, the Senate report
does not mention others who have been convicted of other serious crimes, such
as rape and murder.
All of this information was publicly
available but often under-reported by major media, another claim made by Trump. One very memorable case was that of
Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who attacked and wounded 11 people on the campus of Ohio
State University in November 2016. Artan was a Somalian who arrived in 2007 as
a refugee.
Comments
The 7
nation travel ban is a good start, but there need to be dozens of other
initiatives that need to be taken. The US government needs to defund sanctuary
entities, the 22 Islamic camps located in the US and those in Mexico and begin
to draw a bead on terrorist support by Mosques in the US. The US needs to quit
the UN refugee program and restrict refugees severely. We don’t need more
minimum wage workers or welfare recipients.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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