Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said Monday that blocking Syrian refugees from entering the United States would impair the ability of police officers to connect with the Muslim community.
Clinton, who wants to import thousands of Syrian refugees, told reporters in Reno that it would look bad not to let in Syrian refugees, and that might inflame Muslims against law enforcement.
“If you’re in law enforcement, … you want the people in the communities that you are looking to get information from to feel like they want to help you,” Clinton said at a Nevada roundtable. “And if the message from people who are running for president, for example, is that we don’t want to take any Muslims whatsoever, that’s not good for law enforcement.” (Read more from “Hillary Clinton Just Made This Insane Claim About What Will Happen If We Block Refugees” HERE)
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-11-23 23:28:262016-04-11 10:55:49Hillary Clinton Just Made This Insane Claim About What Will Happen If We Block Refugees
President Obama has taken up the cause of importing Syrian refugees into the U.S. with a vengeance, saying that they are harmless, despite the fact that some of the terrorists who killed over 100 in Paris are linked to Syrian refugees. Congressman Trey Gowdy isn’t remaining silent in the face of Obama’s claims.
As President Obama continues to push for a wide expansion of his program to import Syrian refugees into the U.S., Congressman Trey Gowdy, R – SC, is blaming the President’s policies for creating the Syrian refugee crisis in the first place.
According to The Hill newspaper, Gowdy addressed the issue as he chaired a meeting of the House Judiciary subpanel on immigration.
“The president says we’re scared of widows and orphans, with all due respect to him, what I’m afraid of is a foreign policy that creates more widows and orphans,” Gowdy said on Capitol Hill.
Gowdy is responding to Obama’s attack on Republicans who oppose the expansion of his refugee importation program delivered to reporters on November 18 where he called the opposition “political posturing.”
“Apparently they are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America,” Obama said on Wednesday. “At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of three-year-old orphans. That doesn’t seem so tough to me.” (Read more from “Gowdy Heard What Obama Said About Syrian Refugees and Pulled the Pin on a Truth Grenade” HERE)
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-11-21 01:59:032016-04-11 10:55:53Gowdy Heard What Obama Said About Syrian Refugees and Pulled the Pin on a Truth Grenade
A push by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for a vote on refugee benefits has thwarted the Senate’s plan to pass a housing and transportation bill this week.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) came to the Senate floor on Thursday and withdrew cloture motions on the spending bill for the Department of Transportation and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The motions would have allowed the legislation to come up for a procedural vote.
The move came after Paul, who is running for president, demanded a vote on an amendment that would ban new refugees from 34 countries or territories from getting assistance from welfare programs funded under the spending bill.
With Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), who are spearheading the legislation, opposed to Paul’s amendment, Paul pledged that he would block leadership from trying to speed up procedural votes, as well as block any other amendment from getting queued up for floor time.
“The biggest issue of the day is how we protect ourselves from terrorism. My amendment goes to the heart of the matter. Are we sufficiently vetting those who might come here and attack us from the Middle East?” Paul said, adding that “until we address the issues of the day on a germane amendment, I object.” (Read more from “Rand Paul Demands Vote on Blocking Welfare for Refugees” HERE)
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By Christopher Snyder. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is accusing President Barack Obama of making it easier for Muslims rather than Christians to enter the U.S. in the midst of the Syrian civil war.
“If you were Muslim from Syria, you can get into this country … if you were a Christian from Syria it was almost impossible to get in and yet the Christians were having their heads cut off,” Trump told a crowd Wednesday in Worcester, Mass. “It’s the most unfair thing, this is during the Obama administration … what’s wrong with us?”
The businessman, though, did admit the challenge of proving the religion of those claiming refugee status. “Well I don’t know if you can prove they are Christian, first of all I happen to be Christian, I’m protestant, and I would love to do that, but how are they proving that.”
Obama blasted the idea of admitting people solely based on their religion.
“When I hear folks say well maybe we should just admit Christians but not Muslims, when I hear political leaders suggesting religious test for which person who’s fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted … that’s not who we are. We don’t have religious tests to our compassion,” he said at a press conference Monday. (Read more from “Trump Just Made This Major Accusation Against the White House About Syrian Refugees” HERE)
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U.S.-Bound Syrians Detained in Honduras With Fake Passports
By Curt Mills. Honduras has detained five Syrian nationals traveling by land to the United States, and in possession of fake Greek passports.
The five men are currently being held in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. The central American nation is over 1,500 miles from the United States border . . .
The men were coming from Costa Rica, and planning to make passage into Guatemala next. (Read more from “U.S.-Bound Syrians Detained in Honduras With Fake Passports” HERE)
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-11-19 00:30:572016-04-11 10:55:58Trump Just Made This Major Accusation Against the White House About Syrian Refugees
Thank God the citizens of this country rose up to demand their tone-deaf political elites shut down the suicidal Islamic refugee program.
A conservative House member told me yesterday that he received more calls in opposition to the Islamic refugees than his previous record-setting switchboard meltdown—the pleas to vote against John Boehner. It appears that GOP leadership is getting the message they must at least pretend to care about the issue. The problem, as we noted yesterday, is that they are merely pretending instead of attacking the matter at its core.
Misunderstanding the broader threat posed by Islamic immigration, many GOP leaders are focusing exclusively on Syria and ISIS, suggesting mere improvements in vetting to screen out ISIS infiltrators. What they fail to see is that while the potential for ISIS infiltrators is certainly an immediate concern, the more foundational and existential threat is from the larger number of immigrants who agree with ISIS or adhere to strict Sharia Law. We have already admitted hundreds of thousands of immigrants form the Middle East who have clustered together and cultivated the climate of homegrown radicalism.
One could argue that Somali refugees present an even greater threat to our security and cultural stability than the Syrian refugees. While it is less likely that ISIS will infiltrate the Somali refugees based on geographical proximity, we have seen more radicalism from the Somali community than most other Muslim demographics. Over 40 known American-Somalis from the Minneapolis area have joined ISIS or other terror groups since 2008. This is something that cannot be vetted. How many of the impending Somali refugees will agree with ISIS? How many hate Jews? How many will exacerbate a subculture that is vulnerable to radicalization, like what we’ve seen in Europe and what’s already taken root in places like Minneapolis and Brooklyn, NY?
This is why any effort to bar or defund resettlement of Syrian Muslims must include Somalia and other volatile regions as well.
Since 1993, we’ve admitted roughly 115,000 Somali immigrants, mostly through the refugee program, at an average clip of 10,000 a year. Almost 100% of them are Muslim. Obama plans to bring in 15,000 more refugees from East Africa for FY 2016. In light of all the problems we’ve had from that region—not just the lack of vetting capabilities, but the lack of assimilation—how can Republicans let this slide?
Nobody expressed the problem with the Somali community better than Minnesota’s US attorney Andrew Luger:
“To be clear: We have a terror-recruiting problem in Minnesota. And this case demonstrates how difficult it is to put an end to recruiting here. Parents and loved ones should know that there is not one master recruiter organizing in the Somali community locally. What this case shows is that the person radicalizing your son, your brother, your friend, may not be a stranger. It may be their best friend right here in town.”
Minnesota is home to at least 30,000 Somalis. Many have been here long enough to become U.S. citizens. Watch this man-on-the-street video of the Somali community in Minneapolis and, when coupled with the observation of Andrew Lugar, you will see why this “vetting” narrative is a daunting oversimplification.
You cannot vet for this mentality. When most of these Somalis or other Islamic immigrants who went on to fight for ISIS or plot homegrown terror attacks were initially admitted into the country, it was unlikely they had any ties to an official terror group. Many of them came over as young children; some were even born here. But as we’ve seen in Europe, the clustering of Islamic communities in western countries, coupled with the successful pan-Islamic cyber jihad over the past decade, will radicalize these individuals once they are already admitted to the host country. The Chattanooga shooter, a homegrown Muslim freelance jihadi who killed five U.S. service-members, is a chilling example of why “vetting” is a red herring.
This is not just about Paris; this is about the record number of small-scale individual jihad attacks we’ve incurred on our soil this year alone. This is not just about Syria and ISIS but Somalia, al-Shabab and other regions infected with Islamic supremacism and jihad. Paul Ryan is wrong to suggest that the problem is only with Syria and that the concern is limited to ISIS infiltration. The concern is the survival of western civilization.
As Sens. Sessions and Cruz noted in a press release, “[I]n 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.” By admitting Sharia-adherent immigrants from any part of the world, we are growing the potential pool of ISIS ground troops to implement their attacks or freelance jihad in the future.
Our political class will either learn the lesson of Europe now, before it is too late, or we will all suffer the consequences after the problem is largely irremediable. (For more from the author of “Populist Outrage Explodes Over the Establishment’s Insane Federal Refugee Programs” please click HERE)
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French President Francois Hollande today promised that “France will remain a country of freedom,” defending his decision to honor a commitment to accept migrants and refugees despite Friday’s deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.
“Life should resume fully,” Hollande told a gathering of the country’s mayors, who gave him a standing ovation. “What would France be without its museums, without its terraces, its concerts, its sports competitions?
In the same spirit, he added, “30,000 refugees will be welcomed over the next two years. Our country has the duty to respect this commitment,” explaining that they will undergo vigorous security checks.
Hollande noted that “some people say the tragic events of the last few days have sown doubts in their minds,” but called it a “humanitarian duty” to help those people … but one that will go hand in hand with “our duty to protect our people.” (Read more from “French President: We Will Go Ahead and Take 30,000 Refugees” HERE)
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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.
(Read more from “Obama Just Made Illegal Move to Sneak Refugees Into America” HERE)
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2015-11-19 00:24:562016-04-11 10:55:59Obama Just Made Illegal Move to Sneak Refugees Into America
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)
Ben Carson’s super-PAC created a new commercial in response to the Paris terrorist attacks, highlighting the retired neurosurgeon’s hardline opposition to allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S.
In the ad — titled “Courage,” which is expected to be run alongside two others as an online or TV commercial in the early states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — Carson criticizes President Obama for welcoming refugees from Syria.
Carson’s voiceover declares: “When the president says things like, you know, through an executive order, ‘I’m going to bring 100,000 people in here from Syria,’ Congress needs to say ‘you do that and we’re going to defund everything, including your breakfast.'”
The 100,000 figure does not reflect Obama’s current policy. The president has said he plans to resettle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year.
The chairman of the pro-Carson super-PAC, John Philip Sousa IV, said in a telephone interview that Friday’s terrorism caused his super-PAC — named The 2016 Committee — to insert the Syrian refugee message and get the ad out quickly. (Read more from “Watch: Carson Super-PAC Releases Anti-Syrian Refugee Ad” HERE)
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)
