Case of Iraqi refugee linked to ISIS exposes failed
vetting system under Obama, by Ann Corcoran, 8/28/18.
Nayla Rush writing at the Center for Immigration Studies poses a wide range of questions about
how a man with two arrest warrants in Iraq got in to the US from Turkey in
2014, received extensive benefits from the US taxpayer, and lived here until
now undetected. The UN helped pick him for US resettlement!
Entitled:
Follow-Up Questions on Omar Ameen’s Refugee Resettlement Case
I
have chosen two questions to highlight the fact that we allow the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and a non-profit Catholic group to do
the initial screening of refugees entering the US from Turkey.
BTW,
during Obama’s term in office, Turkey was the second highest processing country for
refugees entering the US after Kenya. Do you trust those two agencies
to decide who your new neighbors will be?
Rush:
RSC Prescreening - Nine State
Department-funded resettlement support centers (RSCs) abroad play an important
role in the refugee admissions process: They conduct in-person prescreening
interviews of resettlement applicants, record persecution stories, collect
extended family information, etc., that USCIS officers use to determine
applicants’ eligibility and credibility and adjudicate cases accordingly. RSC
staff (who are generally citizens of the countries where they are stationed)
not only prescreen refugees abroad, they help them build their cases to submit
to U.S. officials for resettlement.
Question: Which RSC was in charge of Ameen’s case in
Turkey? Was it the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC), a
resettlement partner of the U.S. government in the Middle East since the 1960s
that operates the resettlement support center for Turkey and the Middle East
(RSC TuME) and that is 49.9 percent funded by the U.S. government, according to
2016 figures? Will
this RSC review its pre-screening system?
U.S. Reliance on UNHCR and RSCs –
Question: Will the U.S. government reconsider its near-total reliance on the UNHCR and RSCs for a range of pre-departure services linked with resettlement? Will the United States ask for enhanced accountability and control measures from these organizations?
Question: Will the U.S. government reconsider its near-total reliance on the UNHCR and RSCs for a range of pre-departure services linked with resettlement? Will the United States ask for enhanced accountability and control measures from these organizations?
The United States relies
on the United Nations (specifically, the UN High Commission for Refugees or
UNHCR) for resettlement referrals and on the RSCs for the prescreening process
and case applications of refugees. It is UNHCR that referred Ameen to the
United States for resettlement and offered him a chance to become an American
citizen. It is probably ICMC who prescreened and helped build Ameen’s resettlement case.
We sure hope the White House is considering completely getting rid of
the UNHCR as a partner in deciding who comes to America and who doesn’t!
See
more of Nayla Rush’s insightful questions, here highlighting
what an epic failure Ameen’s presence on American soil is!
See
my previous post about the battles going on right now
between the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon and Homeland
Security on the issue of security screening refugees. The Open Borders Left
says Trump is doing TOO MUCH vetting!
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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