The
Associated Press and NBC are now reporting that Tennessee gunman Muhammed
Youssef Abdulazees was an immigrant from the Muslim nation of Kuwait.
According to U.S. Census Data, the United States admits roughly
100,000 Muslim immigrants legally each year, representing the fastest growing
block of immigration into the United States. Tennessee, in fact, is home to one
of the fastest growing immigrant populations in the country, causing the President to give a recent speech there in favor of
expansive immigration. The Mayor of Nashville has launched a New American
Advisory Council to help facilitate the legally-sanctioned transition from the
previous inhabitants of Nashville to the new ones.
Both of Tennessee’s Senators, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) score 23% and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) scire 51%,
helped pass the Senate’s Gang of Eight bill which would have tripled the number
of green cards issued over the next ten years.
Unlike illegal immigrants, legal immigrants invited into the
United States with green cards are granted automatic work permits, welfare
access, and the ability to become voting citizens.
Pew Research has estimated that immigration will
cause the population of U.S. Muslims to more than double over the next two
decades—from 2.6 million in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030. This demographic
change is entirely the product of legal admissions–that is, it is a formal
policy of the federal government adopted by Congress.
Another major source of Middle Eastern immigration into the United
States is done through our nation’s refugee program. Every year the United
Stated admits 70,000 asylees and refugees. Arabic
is the most common language spoken by refugees, and 91.4
percent of
refugees from the Middle East are on food stamps.
The importation of Middle Eastern immigrants through the nation’s
refugee program has led to the development of pockets of radicalized
communities throughout the United States.
Minnesota, for instance, which has the largest Somali population
in the country, has struggled to stem terror
recruiting. The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently
reported that six men from Minnesota were arrested and charged
attempting to fight alongside ISIS. During
the last two years alone, more than 20 Somali-Americans from Minnesota have
left the U.S. to fight alongside terrorists under the banner of ISIL.
Similarly, as National Review has reported, “Dearborn, Michigan is
home to just under 100,000 people, about 40 percent of whom are Muslim. In
2013, a leaked government document revealed that more people from Dearborn were
on the federal terrorist watch list than from any other city except New York.”
The head of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
Union, Kenneth Palinkas, recently
warned about
this very issue: “It is also essential to warn the public about the threat that
ISIS will exploit our loose and lax visa policies to gain entry to the United
States. Indeed, as we know from the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993,
from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, from the Boston Bombing, from the recent plot
to bomb a school and courthouse in Connecticut, and many other lesser-known
terror incidents, we are letting terrorists into the United States right
through our front door.”
He listed a number of terror attacks in which the attackers were
immigrants voluntarily imported into the United States, including the Boston
Marathon Bombing. None of these attacks would have occurred but for immigration
sanctioned by the federal government.
News reports show
that this is similarly emerging as a problem in Florida. A recent piece in The
Tampa Tribune reveals
that Florida now leads the nation as the number one state resettling refugees.
As one Floridian community liaison manager with Refugee Services
estimated for The Tampa Tribune, Florida settles 27,000 refugees, on average,
per year.
According to the federal government, Florida resettled 43,184
refugees in 2013.
While most of these refugees settling in Florida arrive from Cuba,
many arrive from Middle Eastern countries. According
to the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, the next largest
countries to resettle in Florida after Cuba are (in order) Iraq, Myanmar
(Burma), the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Colombia,
Afghanistan, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria, and Palestine.
The Tampa Tribune reports
that many of these Muslim refugees are carving out their own Muslim communities
within Florida (similar to what refugees have done in Dearborn and
Minneapolis): “Many of the refugees finding homes in the Tampa Bay area are
Muslim because the region has an established Muslim community.”
The Tampa Tribune also
notes that most of these refugees, precisely because they are invited in
legally by our government, will go on to seek citizenship. Tampa
immigration lawyer B. John Ovink told The Tampa Tribune, “Citizenship is
straightforward. Once they enter as refugees or are granted asylum, they apply
for permanent residency, the proof of which is a green card. It’s pretty
automatic unless something changes in their country of origin and they are
forced to go back. But I haven’t seen that happen in the 22 years I’ve been
practicing law.”
On the heels of these developments, two Republican Senators– Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) score 64% and Dan Coats (R-IN)–have announced plans to substantially
increase immigration from countries with large Muslim populations as a
condition of a new highway bill. They are proposing to attach “highly-skilled”
immigration bills from last Congress, which would expand the number of STEM
workers (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)–large numbers of
whom come from countries with large Muslim populations like Pakistan, India and
Saudi Arabia. The Tennessee killer was himself an engineering student.
Similarly, presidential contender Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), score 80% has also introduced immigration
legislation that would substantially increase opportunities for Muslim
immigration by creating an uncapped green card program for foreign
students specializing in STEM fields while tripling the number of H-1B visas.
One of the fastest growing groups of foreign students are from Saudi Arabia, helping propel
the foreign student population to an all-time high.
Senator Rubio’s statement on the terrorist attack in Tennessee did
not mention anything about Islam.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/16/ immigration-to-swell-u-s-muslim-population-to-6-2-million/
Comments
About half of the Muslims in the US want
Sharia Law. We need federal and state
legislation to ensure that US courts are required to use only US Law. This would prohibit Sharia and UN
International law (TPP) in the US. We
need to reduce the US Muslim population to under 1%. It is currently about 2%.
All immigration to the US should be shut
down for the next 10 years.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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