DHS DEFIES Obama; Warns ISIS Trojan Horse Coming to America,
Homeland can’t locate 122,000 with U.S. visas revoked over terror ties
(Fox News) – Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
acknowledged this week that terrorists could in fact try to infiltrate the
country’s refugee system, giving a nod to congressional concerns that have
mounted for weeks about potential gaps in the programs. “We do have to be
concerned about the possibility that a terrorist organization may seek to
exploit our refugee resettlement process,” he said Wednesday. “This is true of
this country, that’s true of every other country that accepts refugees.”
In saying so, Johnson stressed that the Obama administration is
continuing to reevaluate the program, and has done so with refugees from Iraq
and Syria. He made the comments while officially updating the DHS terrorism
alert system — issuing a bulletin reminding Americans about the ongoing
concerns regarding an attack on U.S. soil. “As we saw in the recent attacks in
San Bernardino and Paris, terrorists will consider a diverse and wide selection
of targets for attacks,” the bulletin said.
The comments are likely to fuel the Capitol Hill push for
changes to the refugee vetting system. In response to Johnson’s acknowledgement
that terrorists could try to exploit the program, Republican Rep. Adam
Kinzinger, R-Ill., suggested the DHS boss was behind the curve.
“I mean this respectfully to the secretary, but, duh,” Rep. Adam
Kinzinger, R-Ill., told Fox News on Wednesday. “I mean, this is obvious that
they can infiltrate this way. They have said it in social media posts, they
obviously want to attack us here at home. This is quite obvious.”
On Wednesday, Johnson reiterated that the government has no
knowledge of a specific or credible terrorist threat against the United States
but remains concerned about terrorist-inspired extremists. His announcement
marked the first change to the National Terrorism Advisory, as the system is
officially known, since 2011 when the color-code system was replaced.
The system was put in place following the 9/11 attacks, when
terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people in separate incidents in New York,
Washington and Pennsylvania.
The bulletin issued Wednesday outlines much of what Johnson and
other officials have said since the attacks in Paris last month and in San
Bernardino, Calif., earlier this month. It will remain in effect until June
2016. Johnson also said reports of DHS officials being barred from reviewing
public social media postings of people seeking to come to the U.S. legally
“would not be accurate.”
DHS launched pilot programs specifically aimed at reviewing
social media postings as part of the immigration vetting process, he said. But
he said there are “legal limits to what we can do.”
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