'Staggering': 680,000 Muslims
to U.S. under Obama, Green-card totals over 5 years
enough to populate D.C.
The U.S. issued 680,000 green cards
to migrants from Muslim-majority countries in the five-year period encompassing
2009 through 2013, according to Department of Homeland Security data.
This Islamic “invasion,” as some are
calling it, occurred on the Obama administration’s watch, with plans for 10,000
Syrian Muslims grabbing much of the headlines. But the actual number is many
times higher with a refugee program that is rooted in the 1980s and has the
support of both parties.
The U.S. has brought in more than
1.5 million Muslims through the refugee program since the passage of the
Refugee Act of 1980. They have been coming from Islamic states with active
jihadist movements such as Somalia, Bangladesh, Burma, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan,
Bosnia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
To put this five-year tally
– 680,000 – in context, it surpasses the total population of
Washington, D.C., which is 660,000.
Yet, the Gang of Eight immigration
“reform” bill co-sponsored by GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio would have
tripled the number of green cards being issued.
The data was released
by Sen. Jeff Session, R-Ala., who serves on four Senate
committees: Armed Services, Budget, Environment and Public Works, and
Judiciary, where he is chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the
National Interest.
Among those receiving green cards
are foreign nationals admitted to the United States as refugees. Within one
year, they must apply for lawful permanent resident status, also referred to as
a green card, and are placed on a fast track to full citizenship, which is
obtainable within five years.
Refugees, which are hand-picked by
the United Nations for resettlement in more than 180 U.S. cities and towns,
have instant access to federal welfare and entitlements, along with local
benefits and education services. These costs are not offset.
The 680,000 number is not an
estimate of total migration, as it does not include temporary migrants who
return home, nor is it an estimate of population change, as it does not include
births or deaths, among other considerations.
There is no official tally of the
Muslim population in America because the Census does not track religious
affiliation. The estimates range from 2.8 million by Pew Research based on a
2011 study and 7 million as estimated by the Council for American-Islamic
Relations.
“Whatever the exact level, it can
hardly be considered surprising that as the Muslim population in the country
has expanded, so has the incidence of radicalism,” wrote Ian Tuttle in an
article for National Review titled “The
Troubling Math of Muslim Immigration.”
In fact, many of the recent
terrorist attacks on U.S. soil have been carried out by Muslim immigrants,
including the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 and the Chattanooga shooting
earlier this year.
Sessions’ immigration subcommittee
has documented
72 cases of Muslim suspects carrying out
attacks or attempted attacks over the past year. He believes all of them are
either foreign-born Muslim immigrants or their offspring and has asked the
Obama administration to clarify their immigration histories, but the
administration has ignored the request.
Rubio’s stance on Muslim immigration
Rubio told Fox News host Sean
Hannity earlier this week that he would not use Congress’ power of the purse to
shut off funding for the refugee program.
Rubio said he’d prefer Speaker Paul
Ryan’s plan, which would allow the Obama administration to continue on its
resettlement binge – bringing in 85,000 refugees this year, up from 70,000
annually in recent years.
Obama wants to increase the number
of refugees coming to the U.S. to 100,000 in 2017. More than half of these
refugees will come from Muslim-dominated countries with active jihadist
movements.
Policy is bigger than just Obama administration
Assuming no change in visa policy,
the U.S. can expect to give green cards to another 680,000 migrants from these
countries over the next five years. A green card entitles recipients to access
federal benefits, lifetime residency, work authorization and a direct route to
becoming a U.S. citizen.
The numbers could be higher still:
Census Bureau data shows migration from the Middle East to be one of the
fastest-growing categories. If left in place, Obama’s refugee plan would
substantially boost the annual number of migrants from this region admitted to
the U.S. who, in turn, would be able to petition for their overseas relatives
to join them in America. Refugees and asylees from Iraq, Somalia and Iran alone
accounted for 124,000 Muslim immigrants from 2009 through 2013.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau,
the foreign-born population in the United States is at a record 41.3 million.
One-quarter of the U.S. population is now either foreign-born or has
foreign-born parents.
The Census Bureau projects the
percentage of the population born outside the country will soon pass the
highest percentage ever recorded and continue rising to new all-time records
never before witnessed – unless Congress passes a law to reduce green card
allotments.
“Without such changes, the Census
Bureau projects that, for each coming year the total number of immigrants in
the United States will increase, the annual rate of immigrant admissions will
increase, and the foreign-born share of the population will increase,”
according to a statement from Sessions office.
“Pew polling data shows that 83
percent of the public (across all parties) opposes this growth baseline and
believes the level of immigration should either be frozen or reduced,”
Sessions’ statement said. “By a nearly 10-1 margin, Americans of all backgrounds
are united in their shared belief that companies with positions to fill should
raise wages instead of bringing in new lower-wage labor from abroad.
And yet, despite this, the Senate’s
Gang of Eight bill would
have tripled the issuance of green
cards over the next decade, and this year’s I-Squared bill would substantially
increase both low-wage guest-worker admissions and green card allotments – all
on top of the existing record-breaking and unprecedented growth in future
immigration.”
Green Card Totals, FY09-FY13
Pakistan (83K), Iraq (83K), Bangladesh
(75K), Iran (73K), Egypt (45K), Somalia (31K), Uzbekistan (24K), Turkey (22K),
Morocco (22K), Jordan (20K), Albania (20K), Lebanon (16K), Yemen (16K),
Indonesia (15K), Syria (14K), Sudan (13K), Afghanistan (11K), Sierra Leone
(10K), Guinea (8K), Senegal (7K), Saudi Arabia (7K), Algeria (7K), Kazakhstan
(7K), Kuwait (5K), Gambia (5K), United Arab Emirates (4K), Azerbaijan (4K),
Mali (3K), Burkina Faso (3K), Kyrgyzstan (3K), Kosovo (3K), Mauritania (2K), Tunisia
(2K), Tajikistan (2K), Libya (2K), Turkmenistan (1K), Qatar (1K), Chad (1K)
[Note: These are the specific DHS
green card totals during this time range for Muslim-majority countries which
sent at least one-thousand or more migrants, and include any refugees or
asylees who adjusted to LPR status.]
http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/staggering-number-of-muslim-refugees-under-obama/
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