Wishful thinking.
Aloha Snackbar and BMB
Update/edit:
FBI Has Nearly 1,000 Active Islamic State Probes Inside U.S….
Via Washington Times:
The Federal Bureau of Investigations has nearly 1,000 active probes connected to the Islamic State terrorist group inside the U.S., law enforcement officials claimed in a letter to President Obama.
The terrorist probes were revealed in a letter from a group of elected sheriffs in Colorado blasting the president’s plan to transfer known terrorists held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanmo Bay, Cuba, to a mainland facility. Two federal prison facilities in Colorado are being considered for the potential transfer.
The sheriff’s wrote that the relocation of such dangerous prisoners to a Colorado facility could tempt many of the thousands of Islamic State supporters being investigated by the FBI to target the prison.
“We recently learned that the FBI has almost 1,000 active ISIS investigations taking place inside the borders of the United States. We believe it would be dangerously naive not to recognize that a civilian prison with an untold number of enemy combatant inmates, located in our state, would provide a very tempting target for anyone wishing to either free these detainees or simply wishing to make a political statement,” the sheriffs wrote in their Nov. 9 letter, published by Judicial Watch.
http://therightscoop.com/no-the-rumor-that-10000-syrian-refugees-arrived-in-new-orlean-is-not-true/
Senator Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) says he’s not concerned with the vetting of the 10,000 Syrian refugees coming to the United States.
“Are you concerned with the refugees coming here in the next 12 months? Are you concerned about the vetting process?” talk show host Dan Mandis asked Corker on Nashville’s WWTN radio Wednesday.
“Well, I’m not, because we are going to vet them,” Corker said.
Corker’s claims that the 10,000 Syrian refugees the State Department plans to grant entry to the United States in Fiscal Year 2016 are being properly vetted is in direct conflict with FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee last week.
As CNS News reported:
“We can only query against that which we have collected, and so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interests reflected in our database, we can query our database til the cows come home, but … there’ll be nothing show up, because we have no record on that person,” said Comey…
Ranking member Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) 19% asked Comey, “Mr. Director, before this committee, [FBI] Assistant Director [Michael] Steinbach said that the concerns in Syria is that we don’t have the systems in place on the ground to collect the information to vet. That would be the concern. Databases don’t hold the information on these individuals. Is that still the position of the department?”
“Yes, I think that’s the challenge we’re all talking about, is that we can only query against that which we have collected, and so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interests reflected in our database, we can query our database til the cows come home, but we’re not gonna—there’ll be nothing show up, because we have no record on that person,” said Comey.
At a subsequent House Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Comey told Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) 95% neither the FBI nor any part of the Obama administration “could offer anybody an absolute assurance that there’s no risk associated with [admitting these 10,000 Syrian refugees in Fiscal Year 2016].”
In Wednesday’s radio interview, Mandis brought the Obama administration’s admission it could not vet these refugees to Corker’s attention.
“Authorities in Canada, in the last 24 hours or so, have said that they intend to take in 25,000 Syrian refugees, meanwhile, our own government, as you know, they plan on bringing in some 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year or so. Some of those are going to be coming to Tennessee, while admitting we have no way to properly vet those wanting to come in,” Mandis noted.
Corker blew right past that important point, completely ignoring FBI Director Comey’s testimony that the Obama administration cannot properly vet any of the Syrian refugees.
“There’s no way that we’re going to allow refugees into the country that aren’t vetted. So, and that takes, typically, it’s been taking about two years,” he added.
“We’ve had conversations with State, the entity that … deals with this vetting, and obviously …we don’t want to cut down in quality in any way, but they’re looking at ways of speeding up the vetting,” Corker added.
“When you look at people who would be coming to the U.S., these are people that have been in the pipeline for a long, long time. They’re not the people that you’re seeing on the TV screen,” the senior senator from Tennessee claimed.
“And that’s why we keep saying. . . ,people are lending a hand, but we’re not lending a hand to those people that you’re seeing on the screens, and what we really need to do is to stop this at the root, and that is in Syria where Assad is barrel bombing his own citizens, where Russia now is taking part and killing the moderate Syrians we have been supporting,” Corker concluded.
Corker also claimed that the 10,000 refugees the State Department plans on granting entry to the United States between now and September 2016 are “not the people that you’re seeing on the TV screen.”
Instead, they are among the 18,000 Syrian refugees Corker says “have been in the pipeline for a long, long time” who have been referred to the United States by the United Nations for vetting.
As the New York Times reported:
Under pressure from Europe and other countries confronting the global migration crisis, Mr. Obama has raised the number of Syrian refugees who will be offered legal status to at least 10,000 this fiscal year.
Some cities and towns have resisted. In Duncan, S.C., residents and elected officials argue that the federal government cannot possibly screen out terrorists, and some say that more Muslim immigrants would threaten American culture.
The Times also reported that “1,854 Syrian refugees [were] admitted by the United States between 2012 to Sept. 2015,” in contrast to 92,991 admitted by Germany during the same time period. It also claimed “[t]he additional 10,000 Syrian refugees this year would come from 18,000 referrals already submitted by the United Nations. State Department officials said that more than half of them were children.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), has an entirely different view of the Obama administration’s capability to vet the 10,000 Syrian refugees than does Senator Corker, whether they are among those 18,000 on the current United Nations list, or the thousands of refugees seen on the TV screen.
In a letter to President Obama this week, Goodlatte wrote:
Based on the concerns raised by security officials within your Administration at the agencies relevant to conducting security checks, I request that you rescind your directive to Secretary Kerry to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees during Fiscal Year 2016, and that your Administration not admit any Syrian refugees until such time that a security check process is implemented that will ensure no refugee is admitted who is a terrorist or is likely to be a terrorist.
Senator Corker’s apparent disconnect from the facts surrounding the federal government’s inability to properly vet Syrian refugees, as confirmed by FBI Director James Comey, is yet another reason why conservatives in Tennessee are looking seriously at mounting a challenge to him in the 2018 Republican primary in the state.
"We are led by very, very stupid people."
How can any sane person disagree with this?
You let muslim arabs into the country and you get, well, I should think it would be obvious.
We just stand by and complain.
The Rock
AS PARIS BURNED: Obama Quietly Doubles Processing Centers for Syrian Refugees into the U.S. As Parisians were being slaughtered by radical Islamists, of whom at least one and perhaps two were migrants, Barack Obama was opening new processing centers which will double the number available to refugees in the Middle East in an effort to speed up and increase the numbers to be admitted.
Most Syrians are screened at U.S. resettlement at centers in Istanbul and Amman, Jordan.
The Obama administration is moving to increase and accelerate the number of Syrian refugees who might be admitted into the United States by opening new screening outposts in Iraq and Lebanon, administration officials told Reuters on Friday.
This is what terrorism looks like:
Seems like one of our own jihadis got so excited by the Paris attack:
Washington D.C.: Knife-Wielding Muslim Slashed Woman at Union Station, Charged at Police Officer
Just because the media isn’t reporting it, doesn’t mean it isn’t here. Every day we get more reports of pedestrian jihad. And it will only increase.
Police say an off-duty officer shot the knife-wielding Muslim at Washington’s Union Station when he refused to drop his weapon and charged the cop. Rashad must have been juiced by Paris.
Sadly he is still alive. He was taken to the hospital.
“Man shot at Union,” Washington Post, November 16, 2015
A man who was shot at Union Station on Saturday night in a confrontation with an off-duty Baltimore County police officer from Maryland was identified Sunday by D.C. police as Rashad Bugg-Bey, 25, of Northeast Washington.
Police said he was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.
According to police, a man slashed a woman with a knife about 8:15 p.m. just outside the entrance to the Metro station at Union Station. The victim and the assailant, who still had the knife, went toward the officer, police said.
As the man approached the officer, the officer ordered him to drop the knife, but he did not and was shot. District police said the officer was a Baltimore County officer.
What is the problem with Syrian refugees?
I believe the time has come to seal Syrian borders once and for all. "Indistinguishable" borders may be a better word.
The Rock
Obama claims only those “properly vetted” will be brought to US. Guess who else was “properly vetted?”
On the news today, they said 30% of The Good Guy fighting force in Iraq .... are women ....these groups are fighting 'the bad guys' to protect their families , themselves & their country ... as it should be!
People need to take a stand against evil!
What's the big deal?
The Rock
Zero claims he is going to spread them out over all the states.
That way the entire country is covered I imagine being his theory.....
The Rock
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“It is imperative that we take action where the White House has not.
“I have therefore directed all state agencies, departments, boards or commissions not to participate or assist in the relocation of Syrian refugees to Kansas. It is unfortunate that we must take this step to protect the safety of Kansans, but the federal government cannot guarantee that Syrian refugees coming to America would not be part of a terrorist organization seeking to harm our citizens.
“America has always provided a refuge for the oppressed and those who seek freedom. However, we must be sure that we are not admitting terrorists as we try to help the innocents who desire the opportunity for a better life and the basic liberty of religious freedom. Most people seeking refugee status are peaceful individuals looking for a better life. But we cannot allow an influx of Syrian refugees, without any meaningful security checks, while ISIS is promising to infiltrate the refugee process.
“Our resources can be better used to help persecuted Syrians. We must consider whether refugees fleeing the persecution of their home country may be better served by resettlement in a friendly nation closer to their homes. Though America will continue to be a country that defends the oppressed, our allies in the region must also step up to stem the tide of this humanitarian crisis.”
Summary: Surveys of Americans show mixed views on immigration issues, and yet for the Left all immigration is good, no matter what laws or legislatures say. Major donors on the Left, which normally champion every kind of government regulation, support immigration without limits, and a number of large nonprofits reap not only private funding but millions of tax dollars in the resettlement business. Most Americans have never even heard of the programs that disburse these monies in their name. This report sketches the landscape and tracks the money flows.
see link for details
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At Least 15 US ‘Citizen Terrorists’ Are Also Legal Immigrants
Anony Mouse's Link
No Answer For Senators On Immigration History Of US Terror Suspects
The Obama administration has not responded to a demand from senators for details on the immigration history of dozens of U.S. residents arrested on terror-related charges.
Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions identified 72 U.S. residents charged with terror-related crimes in the past year and sent the Obama administration a letter in August requesting details on their immigration histories. They provided an incomplete chart with the letter, and asked the Obama administration to fill it in by Sept. 4, but have received no response.
“It is quite telling that this Administration — which seems to have unlimited resources to circumvent our immigration laws and further its executive amnesties — cannot find the time or resources to provide timely answers to these simple questions,” Sessions and Cruz wrote in a joint statement Tuesday.
“Moreover, after this past weekend’s barbaric attacks in Paris, the Administration’s continued insistence on pursuing the massive resettlement of countless individuals from unstable areas of the world reveals a flagrant disregard for the safety and security of the American people,” they continued.
They had asked for details, such as citizenship status, the date of naturalization and the immigration status of the parents of those residents publicly charged with terror crimes. (RELATED: USCIS Is Marketing Citizenship To Fight Homegrown Terror)
“In just the last year, refugees and other migrants admitted to the U.S. from Bosnia, Somalia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ghana, Kuwait and Bangladesh have been implicated in terrorist activity,” they said in the statement...
God bless, Steve
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You first must understand that over 70 percent of the people we want to take in believe in and accept Sharia Law.
Where are they REALLY from?
52% Syria 19% Afghanistan 6% Iraq
Through all the talk of us being afraid to take in women and children, but significantly more than half of these refugees are males between 18-25 years of age.
Anyone who believes Islam is compatible with our way of life needs to research what is happening in the UK, France, Sweden, Germany, Spain and Dearborn, MI, etc.
Further, I cannot tolerate that a segment of society -the left- that just recently celebrated statutory homosexual marriage is so ignorantly welcoming a culture that currently treats homosexuality as a capital offense. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Complete lack of awareness.
Very good point.
The Rock
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