Security ‘specialists’ and Open Borders activists
argue that Trump is doing TOO MUCH vetting of refugees, by Ann Corcoran
8/27/18.
“While terrorist organizations sometimes mused about the idea of using refugee and other immigration programs to try and move people into the United States, it was our assessment that this was actually quite difficult for them.” [What about the 300 cases Comey was looking at?—ed]
What you must do! Contact the White House and tell the President that you want MORE SCREENING (not less!) of refugees coming in to live next door to you!
They
claim the Trump Administration is intentionally slowing the arrival of refugees
destined for your towns and cities by TOO MUCH security screening.
See
my two previous posts this morning: Comey said (as recently as May 2017) that
300 refugees were being investigated for possible terror connections, here, and
Trump’s FBI (Department of Justice) has instituted more rigorous
screening, here.
But,
the Open Borders Left is screaming bloody murder saying that the few refugee terrorists they know of don’t warrant extra screening
measures being put in place primarily by the FBI.
Just a few we know of….circled is Uzbek
Islamist and convicted terrorist who tried to kill a California prison warden
in 2016. I will bet he isn’t even on the Leftists’ radar screen!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/08/18/uzbek-refugee-sentenced-to-additional-20-years-in-prison-for-attempted-murder/
Here
is NBC’s headline from
last week: Trump admin intentionally slowing FBI vetting of refugees,
ex-officials say
Former
officials, aid groups say the Trump admin has overloaded the FBI and other
agencies with procedures that delay refugee admissions.
The FBI has dramatically slowed the pace of security reviews for
refugees in recent months, which former Trump administration officials and
human rights advocates say is part of an intentional bid by White House
hardliners to restrict the number of refugees allowed in the U.S.
Former
officials and aid organizations say the administration has overloaded the FBI
and other government agencies with an array of procedures that have weighed
down the bureaucracy and effectively delayed refugee admissions.
“It’s
a precipitous decline,” said one former official who worked on refugee issues
before leaving government earlier this year.
Refugee
admissions have plunged to historic lows. The U.S. is on track to admit only
about 20,000 – 21,000 refugees by the end of September, far below a ceiling set
at 45,000 by administration officials last year. That cap itself was lower than
any set by a U.S. president since the current refugee program was created in
1980.
Obama’s screening missed these two Iraqi
terrorists in the refugee flow. From ABC News:
The delays in security screening coincide with an intense debate inside
the administration over how many refugees should be permitted to enter the
country next fiscal year, with political appointees pushing for an
unprecedented brake on refugee admissions.
The
FBI screening mainly involves sifting through databases to check if the refugee
applicant has no links to extremists. On some days, the FBI has managed to review
only a handful of cases, creating a bottleneck in the processing of refugee
applications, humanitarian workers and two former officials who served under
President Donald Trump told NBC News. [So who are the former officials too chicken to go on the record?—ed]
Administration
officials insisted the FBI is not dragging its feet. The bureau is merely
following new procedures that require checks of additional databases to weed
out any potential terrorists, they said.
The
FBI is one of several agencies involved in vetting refugees seeking to come to
the United States, starting with the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees and including the State Department and the Department of Homeland
Security.
Security ‘specialist’ Greenberg: Move
along nothing to see! Only 11 refugees linked to ISIS! How many linked to
Al-Qaeda, or Al-Shabab?
“There
is no evidence of a significant threat from refugees as a group,” said Karen
Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University
Law School.
Of 175 cases prosecuted in the U.S. against ISIS supporters,
she said, 11 were refugees or had received asylum status.
Nicholas Rasmussen, head
of the National Counterterrorism Center until December 2017, said that refugees
were overshadowed by more serious terrorist dangers during his time in office.
“While
there is some degree of risk that we assume with any category of immigrants,
our recent experience has not shown that the refugee population presents a
particular threat from a terrorism perspective,” Rasmussen told NBC News. Rasmussen was an Obama appointee replaced by
Donald Trump.
In
recent policy discussions at the White House, officials arguing for a lower
refugee cap have cited three incidents as evidence of the purported threat posed
by refugees.
One
involves an Ethiopian
refugee in Virginia who
did not disclose his role in persecuting Ethiopians for their political
opinions. Another featured an Iraqi
refugee arrested in California based
on an Iraqi court warrant alleging he was an ISIS killer. Another Iraqi refugee was accused of shooting
a police officer in
Colorado Springs, though not fatally. All of these occurred this month. [We told you about the three recent cases, you can find those in my ‘crimes category’ here.—-ed].
However, former officials say that in the two cases involving Iraqis,
additional security procedures were introduced under the Obama administration
that would have prevented those individuals from entering the country.
What
the hell are they talking about! Only as
a result of the two Iraqi terrorists (found in KY) did the Obama Administration
step up screening! Those two were after all, refugees who came in during
Obama’s tenure. The latest two Iraqis (alleged terrorist and cop shooter) did
come in during the Obama Admin as well, so how does he now get brownie-points
for stepped-up screening.
In
2011 and 2012, thousands of Iraqis were re-screened resulting in a slowdown of
Iraqis entering the US and
not one media outlet was screeching about Obama’s increased
screening!
Obama=good.
Trump=bad (no matter what the issue!).
More here. And, don’t miss the obligatory hit on Stephen
Miller!
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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