Obama Just Made Illegal Move to Sneak Refugees Into America

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President Barack Obama is determined to bring these Syrian refugees into the United States by any means necessary, including breaking the law of the land. Half the country doesn’t want them and have openly rejected the refugee placement plan but Obama doesn’t care- he writes his own laws.

National Review reports that The Refugee Act of 1980 says that the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement is supposed to work in cooperation with state and local governments in resettling refugees. There’s been a lot of talk this morning that state governments don’t have the authority to reject refugees from their jurisdiction. But as the law is written, it appears that the feds are supposed to be meeting with and addressing state and local concerns — not dismissing them as xenophobic or “feeding our dark impulses” as the president said yesterday.

(2)(A) The Director and the Federal agency administering subsection (b)(1), shall consult regularly (not less often than quarterly) with State and local governments and private nonprofit voluntary agencies concerning the sponsorship process and the intended distribution of refugees among the States and localities before their placement in those States and localities.

(B) The Director shall develop and implement, in consultation with representatives of voluntary agencies and State and local governments, policies and strategies for the placement and resettlement of refugees within the United States.

(C) Such policies and strategies, to the extent practicable and except under such unusual circumstances as the Director may recognize, shall.

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Federal Officials Liken Whistleblower to Terrorists, Murderers

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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is advising its defense industry partners that whistleblowers who could expose government wrongdoing are as dangerous as terrorists and foreign spies.

According to a report Wednesday from The Daily Beast, National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake was listed alongside “Ft. Hood killer Nidal Hasan, Navy Yard killer Aaron Alexis, and FBI-agent-turned-Soviet-spy Robert Hanssen” in a list of “insider threats.”

Drake however is not a murderer or a spy. In fact, as we’ve previously noted, he was the victim of government harassment.

Here’s the story:

For his efforts of trying to reveal problems stemming from certain NSA data-collection efforts to his superiors and Congressional investigators, NSA management cut funding to programs under his control at the agency, marginalized him and increasingly scrutinized his every action. Having earned himself a scarlet letter within the intelligence community, Drake attempted a different approach and began communicating with a Baltimore Sun reporter with the condition that he would provide the journalist with no classified information.


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Here’s Who Trump Wants for VP Spot; Trump Says He Can ‘Feel’ When Terrorism Is Coming

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By Mark Hensch. Donald Trump named this senator when asked about his possible running mate in 2016.

“Ted Cruz is now agreeing with me 100 percent,” he said when asked about his vice presidential pick, according to Lifezette.

“Well, I like him,” Trump told radio host Laura Ingraham during her broadcast. “He’s backed everything I’ve said.”

Unlike most of the Republican presidential hopefuls, Cruz has mostly refrained from attacking Trump, even appearing alongside him at a rally in September against the Iran nuclear deal.

The pair has also struck similar tones on topics such as border security and illegal immigration. (Read more from “Here’s Who Trump Wants for VP Spot” HERE)

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Trump Says He Can ‘Feel’ When Terrorism Is Coming

By Eric Levitz. At the third Republican debate, CNBC’s John Harwood pointed to a few of Donald Trump’s more outlandish campaign promises – his vow to get Mexico to buy us a border wall, or to cut taxes by $10 trillion without raising the deficit – and asked whether Trump was running “the comic book version of a presidential campaign.” At the time, Trump took offense at such an outrageous characterization of his very serious candidacy. But last night in Tennessee, the GOP front-runner went full comic book, revealing that he has been gifted with a supernatural, crime-fighting power.

“In my book I predicted terrorism because I can feel it,” Trump told supporters at Tennessee’s Knoxville Convention Center on Monday night. “I can feel it like I feel a good location … I really believe I have an instinct for this kind of thing.” (Read more from “Trump Says He Can ‘Feel’ When Terrorism Is Coming” HERE)

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US Discriminates Against Christian Refugees, Accepts 96% Muslims, 3% Christians

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By Valerie Richardson. Less than 3 percent of the Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far are Christian and 96 percent are Muslim, the result of a referral system that Republican Sen. Tom Cotton says “unintentionally discriminates” against Christians.

State Department figures released Monday showed that the current system overwhelmingly favors Muslim refugees. Of the 2,184 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far, only 53 are Christians while 2,098 are Muslim, the Christian News Service reported.

Mr. Cotton and Sen. John Boozman, both Arkansas Republicans, called Monday for a moratorium on resettlements, a White House report on vetting procedures, and a re-evaluation of the refugee-referral process.

“[T]he United States’ reliance on the United Nations for referrals of Syrian refugees should also be re-evaluated,” said Mr. Cotton in a statement. “That reliance unintentionally discriminates against Syrian Christians and other religious minorities who are reluctant to register as refugees with the United Nations for fear of political and sectarian retribution.”

The current system relies on referrals from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Syria’s population in 2011 was 90 percent Muslim and 10 percent Christian, CNS said. (Read more from “US Discriminates Against Christian Refugees, Accepts 96% Muslims, 3% Christians” HERE)

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So Far: Syrian Refugees in US Include 2,098 Muslims, 53 Christians

By Patrick Goodenough. President Obama said Monday that calls from some quarters for the U.S. to admit only Christian refugees from Syria were “shameful,” yet the reality is that today’s refugee system discriminates, not against Syrian Muslims, but against Christians and other non-Muslim minorities.

Critics say this is because the federal government relies on the United Nations in the refugee application process – and since Syrian Christians are often afraid to register with the U.N., they and other non-Muslims are left out.

Fleeing persecution at the hands of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other jihadist groups, Syrian Christians generally avoid U.N. refugee camps because they are targeted there too.

Most refugees considered for resettlement in the U.S. are referred by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Applications are then handled by one of nine State Department-managed resettlement support centers around the world, a process that includes vetting and interviews by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and takes an average of 18-24 months. There are occasions when a process can begin without UNHCR referral, but this usually applies in cases of close relatives of refugees already in the U.S. (Read more from “So Far: Syrian Refugees in U.S. Include 2,098 Muslims, 53 Christians” HERE)

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This GOP Candidate Just Dropped out of the Race

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Tuesday announced he is suspending his campaign for the White House.

“I’ve come to the realization that it is not my time,” Jindal said during an early evening Fox News interview with Bret Baier. “I am suspending my campaign for president of the United States . .

Jindal’s campaign failed to resonate with voters since his entrance into the 2016 race last summer.

He never appeared in a main stage GOP presidential debate based on his low polling numbers, which often have registered at or below 1 percent.

During the Fox interview, Jindal declined to immediately name a GOP rival that he would support. Fourteen candidates remain in the Republican race. (Read more from “This GOP Candidate Just Dropped out of the Race” HERE)

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Trump: Obama Sending Refugees to Republican States

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The Obama administration is deliberately sending Syrian refugees to states led by Republican governors, Donald Trump alleged Tuesday.

Trump, who was speaking to conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, said of the refugees, “They send them to the Republicans, not to the Democrats, you know because they know the problem … why would we want to bother the Democrats?”

Trump’s comments come a day after more than two dozen governors, mainly Republicans, vowed to resist federal efforts to settle refugees in their states. President Barack Obama has said the U.S. will accept 10,000 refugees over the next year. Trump often cites a far higher figure — 250,000 — that has no basis in fact. On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted, “Refugees from Syria are now pouring into our great country. Who knows who they are – some could be ISIS. Is our president insane?”

At a rally in Knoxville, Tenn., on Monday, Trump said the refugees should stay within Syria. “What I’d like is … build a big beautiful safe zone and you have whatever it is so people can live, and they’ll be happier,” he said.

Ingraham said that she had spoken with Florida’s Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, who told her his state is already hosting dozens of Syrian refugees because “everybody wants to come to Florida” due to its low taxes and ample job opportunities. (Read more from “Trump: Obama Sending Refugees to Republican States” HERE)

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US Admits Social Security Going Bankrupt; Warns Public Should Be Given ‘Adequate Time to Prepare’ for the Collapse

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For years now, government agencies, politicians, economists and pundits have tried to sound the alarm over the federal government’s out-of-control spending and spiraling national debt.

The predictions of dire financial consequences have actually been widely publicized in the mainstream. In July 2014, for example, The Hill reported on an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that Congress’ and the White House’s inability to control or reform entitlement spending – considered to be politically radioactive by members of both parties – is collapsing the budget . . .

And in August 2015, Reuters reported that the current trajectory of entitlement spending – boosted in large part by taxpayer-supported health insurance subsidies mandated under Obamacare – is simply unsustainable . . .

[And] the 2015 report of the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees plainly states: “Social Security as a whole as well as Medicare cannot sustain projected long-run program costs…”, and that the government should be “giving the public adequate time to prepare.”

That is about as clear as it gets: There won’t be enough money in the future to cover the government’s promises of benefits, period. It doesn’t get more plain. (Read more from “US Admits Social Security Going Bankrupt; Warns Public Should Be Given ‘Adequate Time to Prepare’ for the Collapse” HERE)

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Lawmaker Warns That FCC Rules Could Crush Political Websites

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For Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who’s leading the charge to stop “net neutrality” regulations, the possibility that political content on the web, like the Drudge Report or Fox News, could be regulated is a major motivation.

“When it comes to the content side, I have the sense that this is the very beginning of the net neutrality debate,” the Tennessee Republican told the Washington Examiner. “I’ve been very concerned about net neutrality turning out to be the Fairness Doctrine of the Internet, and having that applied to websites.”

“The Internet is not broken. It does not need FCC or FEC [Federal Elections Commission] governance in order to carry on,” added Blackburn, the vice chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

All five FCC commissioners are set to testify before the committee Tuesday morning. It’s been nearly two years since they last appeared before the committee together, but it will be chairman Tom Wheeler’s ninth visit to Congress this year. Committee members were expected to grill them on a range of issues, including an alleged lack of transparency and what they see as “mission creep” in the commission’s decisions to expand its own authority. (Read more from “Lawmaker Warns That FCC Rules Could Crush Political Websites” HERE)

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House Freedom Caucus Re-Elects Jordan as Chairman

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The House Freedom Caucus unanimously re-elected Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Monday evening to serve as its chairman for 2016.

Members of the conservative caucus cast their votes in the basement of Tortilla Coast, the Capitol Hill haunt where the group has gathered many times before, reaffirming Jordan’s leadership of the HFC.

Founded in January, some of the 39-member HFC said it was an easy decision asking Jordan to remain chairman for the group’s second year in existence.

“He’s done a fantastic job representing our values and trying to get Congress to do what America needs doing,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said after the vote.

In the first several months, the HFC has distinguished itself as the contrarian contingent in the House Republican Conference, primarily concerned with voting down procedural rules and holding out support for must-pass bills to contract ideological concessions. (Read more from “House Freedom Caucus Re-Elects Jordan as Chairman” HERE)

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Obama Plan for Syrian Refugees Scrambled by State Opposition

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The Paris terror attacks may have put a clamp on President Obama’s plans to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, as the number of governors saying they won’t take them swells.

At the same time, top congressional lawmakers are urging the administration to halt the plan. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul called on Obama to “temporarily suspend the admission of all additional Syrian refugees” pending a “full review,” according to a letter obtained by Fox News.

The resistance at the state level is coalescing at a rapid clip. So far, governors in at least 17 states have moved to suspend or restrict the refugee resettlement, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin.

“Given the tragic attacks in Paris and the threats we have already seen, Texas cannot participate in any program that will result in Syrian refugees — any one of whom could be connected to terrorism — being resettled in Texas,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a letter to Obama.

Some of these states previously did not object to the refugee plan. But Friday night’s terror attack in Paris, which left at least 129 people dead, fueled fears that Islamic State militants are moving into Europe as part of the wave of refugees escaping the civil war, and could eye America next. Authorities say a Syrian passport found near one jihadist’s body had been registered last month and moved through three countries along a busy migrant corridor known for lax controls. (Read more from “Obama Plan for Syrian Refugees Scrambled by State Opposition” HERE)

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