As Obama Promised, 10,000 Syrian Refugees Have Been Admitted to the US
Surprise, surprise: The State Department announced Monday that the Obama administration is not only going to meet President Obama’s goal of 10,000 Syrian refugees before day’s end, but that the actual number by the end of the year may actually be closer to 12,000, according to Joel Gehrke of the Washington Examiner.
“We will meet the 10,000 figure today, and I would fully expect that you will see additional Syrian refugees admitted into the United States between now and the end of the fiscal year,” said State Department spokesman John Kirby on Monday.
Kirby told reporters he “couldn’t predict” how many more refugees would be coming into the United States, but that the influx “would be roughly on the same pace that we have achieved over the course of the late spring and summer, which has been about 2,000 per month.”
Furthermore, according to CNS News, it is likely that fewer than 50 of the incoming refugees will come from Syria’s Christian population, which has experienced an internationally-recognized genocide at the hand of the Islamic State.
As Conservative Review noted in April, this milestone for the president’s unconstitutional refugee program was achieved thanks in large part to the “surge operation” processing center in Amman, Jordan, which allowed the administration to process thousands of applications every single month — meaning that the majority of the 10,000 were processed in the last few months alone.
This, naturally, has been happening in direct contradiction to the 18- to 24-month vetting process that the American people were promised when the crisis became major international news last year. If you like your national security and public order, you can keep it, right?
This points to one of the biggest problems with Obama’s refugee program — namely that it predicates itself on abuse of statute by treating people who aren’t persecuted religious or ethnic minorities as such (like the administration has also done with Central America), at the detriment to victims who have actually been targeted for their beliefs and/or ethnicity. While Christians made up about 10 percent of pre-war Syria, they’ve made up less than one half of 1 percent of the Obama administration’s admissions.
According to data from the administration’s illegal center in in Amman, just 47 of the 9,902 admitted to the U.S. before Monday were Christians. Members of other faiths include 14 displaced Yazidis (also genocide victims), four Jehovah’s Witnesses, and five listed as “other.”
Aside from the sweeping security concerns posed by bringing in migrants from a war-torn region with a known threat of infiltration — and the fact that it is virtually impossible to screen anyone coming out of the camps specifically for jihadist sympathies — this is simply a program that the American people never voted for and that President Obama has gone well outside of his constitutional authority to enforce. But even though the program has hit its first major benchmark, it isn’t too late to stop it going forward.
Congress currently has the opportunity to stop this by the end of September, when House Speaker Paul Ryan’s failure to bring the budget process back to regular order will once again necessitate a continuing resolution. In effect, the legislative branch will then be able to prohibit the State Department from operating the program.
Unfortunately, it’s unlikely, given that it’s a difficult election year. And while stalwart conservatives will be willing to go to bat against this refugee program, most Republicans are going to try to hide from anything that might even remotely resemble controversy until after election day in November. (For more from the author of “As Obama Promised, 10,000 Syrian Refugees Have Been Admitted to the US” please click HERE)
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