05/26/2016
It was reported on Tuesday that 225 Syrians arrived in the US on Monday, which was a record number for a single day. It’s not the sort of performance most Americans want, as shown by a Rasmussen poll of a couple weeks back, in which 59 percent of voters opposed the Obama’s import of 10,000 Syrians this year. But Obama is aimed toward his professed legacy of fundamentally changing America — which Muslim immigration will definitely do — and he doesn’t care what the little citizens want.It apparently didn’t make an impression in the White House when FBI Director James Comey testified last October in a House hearing that the US government cannot adequately screen Syrians for jihad connections because Washington has no access to Syrian databases. There is no way to do background checks without records, period, end of story.
But a little thing like admitting potential jihad enemies into the country does not seem to be a problem for Obama, who certainly likes Muslims very much. He has praised Muslims for helping to build America (a fantasy at best), while he has castigated Americans and Christians for ancient supposed misdeeds like the Crusades.
Still, it would reflect badly on Barack Hussein Obama if some of his Syrian imports were to commit murderous jihad in America. That topic was discussed on Tuesday between former CIA Director Jim Woolsey and Fox Business host Stuart Varney who inquired, “Why this sudden increase? Is this a mad rush to get them in?”
Director Woolsey answered, “I don’t know. I have an easier time getting inside the heads of terrorists and dictators than American politicians … The Director of the FBI says it’s really hard to vet people from that part of the world. Passports are easily bought and sold and modified and so forth. It’s a difficult problem but you can’t just ignore it and start admitting people.”
Responding to the political motivation, he observed, “He [Obama] seems to be making a number of changes, accelerating them here the last weeks to months of his administration because he wants to leave a legacy of some things that I and I think a lot of other people are very worried about, such as making nice to the Iranians and being a bit relaxed about their getting nuclear weapons. That’s not a heritage I would like to see him leave.” Regarding the influx of a million Muslims into Europe, Woolsey thought that there are “parts of London where sharia is the law. We couldn’t tolerate something like that.”
That remark about sharia being unacceptable in American neighborhoods was bravely spoken. But let’s check back on growing Islamic communities in Dearborn and Hamtramck Michigan and Lewiston Maine in a few years to see how well sharia is being resisted under the demographic siege.
If increased Muslim immigration is allowed to continue, there will be other towns threatened with sharia and worse.
State Department sets new single-day record for Syrian refugee approvals, By Stephen Dinan, Washington Times, May 24, 2016The State Department admitted 80 Syrian refugees on Tuesday and 225 on Monday, setting a new single-day record as President Obama surges to try to meet his target of 10,000 approvals this year — sparking renewed fears among security experts who say corners are being cut to meet a political goal.
Officials insisted they’re moving faster because they’re getting better at screening, and say they’re still running all the traps on applicants.
But the new spike in numbers is stunning, with more people accepted on Monday alone than were approved in the entire months of January or February.
“The Obama administration is on full throttle to admit as many people as possible before the time clock runs out on them,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies. “This is the classic scenario when political expediency trumps prudence, and someone slips through who shouldn’t have, and tragedy ensues.”
Powerless to stop the civil war in Syria, Mr. Obama has instead offered the U.S. as a safe haven for those fleeing the conflict, promising to accept 10,000 refugees between Oct. 1 and Sept. 30. As of Tuesday evening, he’d approved 2,540 — an average of about 10 applications a day.
To meet the 10,000 goal, that pace will have to spike to nearly 60 approvals a day.
Officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency charged with vetting the applications, and at the State Department, which gives final approval, insisted they can meet Mr. Obama’s goal without sacrificing security.
From February to April, the administration deployed extra staff to Jordan, where some 12,000 applicants referred by the U.N. were interviewed. Interviews of Syrians were also being held in Lebanon and Iraq, and both USCIS and the State Department said everything is going according to plan, with enough interviews completed that they can bring in 7,000 more refugees by the end of September.
“Increases in processing capacity have improved our capacity to meet the 10,000 target for Syrian refugee admissions for this fiscal year. As such, we expect Syrian refugee arrivals to the U.S. to increase steadily throughout the fiscal year,” a State Department officialsaid.
The department says refugees undergo the most checks of anyone applying to enter the U.S., and Syrians are getting as much scrutiny as possible.
But pressure to speed up the process is growing. Last week Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, fired off a letter saying other countries are approving refugees at a quicker pace, and demanding the administration catch up.
“Refugees are victims, not perpetrators, of terrorism,” the Democrats wrote in their letter.
That’s not always the case, however, as two men who arrived as part of the refugee program were charged with terrorism-related offenses in January.
One of those, Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, an Iraqi-born man, was living in Syria when he was admitted as a refugee in 2012. The State Department counts him against its Iraqi refugee program, not against the Syrian refugee program.
The Obama administration has repeatedly cited the Iraqi program as evidence that it can safely admit refugees from Syria. But security experts say the U.S., by dint of the long war in Iraq, has access to government databases, and a presence on the ground, to assist in checking out would-be refugees’ stories.
No such access exists in Syria, where the U.S. considers the current regime an enemy and much of the country is occupied by the very terrorist forces from Islamic State that the U.S. is fighting.
Critics say the Obama administration has been too heavily focused on Muslim refugees, while hundreds of thousands of Christians are left behind. The latest statistics show only a dozen Christian refugees from Syria have been accepted so far — a rate of less than half of one percent.
The overwhelming majority — more than 97 percent — are Suni Muslims.
Congressional Republicans have called for a slower approach to admitting refugees, but have been powerless to stop Mr. Obama. Democrats filibustered a proposal to require the chiefs of Homeland Security, intelligence and the FBI to sign off on every refugee’s application.
The House will take another step Wednesday, as the Judiciary Committee votes on legislation requiring USCIS to check the social media profiles of all applicants seeking visas from suspect countries.
States have also tried to block Mr. Obama, renouncing agreements to work with the administration to resettle refugees within their borders. Texas even sued to try to bar resettlement, but a federal court rejected the lawsuit, saying the state didn’t have standing.
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