Refugee Crisis in the U. S. (?)

[DC Tom]

http://conservative-daily.com/2016/05/26/shock-obama-let-in-just-one-syrian-christian-last-month/

In the month of April, Barack Obama let 451 Syrian refugees into the country. This is the largest number brought into the country in a given month. Only one of them was a Christian.

This comes more than a month after the Obama administration and Congress declared that Syrian Christians were victims of Genocide.

Only one Christian…

Since the start of the fiscal year, only ten Syrian Christian refugees have been accepted into the country.

Christians account for just TEN out of the more than 1,835 Syrian refugees who have come into the country since October.

It’s absolutely shameful. The one group that is being systematically slaughtered is being sent to the end of the line.

And to top it all off, Obama has decimated the refugee background check process, taking what used to take 18-24 months and demanding that agents vet these people in just THREE months.Read more at link above.

How many Syrian Christians applied for asylum? It's not like you can just grab them off the streets of Aleppo and bring them here.

[Chef Jim]

How many Syrian Christians applied for asylum? It's not like you can just grab them off the streets of Aleppo and bring them here.

 

I'm thinking the answer to your question is probably.............10.

[DC Tom]

 

I'm thinking the answer to your question is probably.............10.

 

So we grant asylum to 100% of the Syrian Christians who request it?

 

Real failure in policy, there...

[3rdnlng]

I would venture to guess that a lot of Syrian Christians have requested asylum what with the genocide over there.

[Chef Jim]

I would venture to guess that a lot of Syrian Christians have requested asylum what with the genocide over there.

So what exactly are you saying here?

[3rdnlng]

So what exactly are you saying here?

Go to the link and read the whole story. The U.N. is determining who gets to apply here for asylum. Believe me, if Obama wanted more Christians here they would allow more Christians. We've cut our vetting process to 1/7th of the time it used to take. I think it makes sense to favor the ones who are being persecuted the most with the added benefit that with our vetting process being weakened so much, that we are much less likely to find an ISIS member imitating a Christian.

[B-Man]

Why So Few Syrian Christian Refugees? For the Same Reason You Can’t Find Orphans in Haitian Orphanages

By Johnathan Witt

 

It seems bewildering that President Obama insists on opening the floodgates to Syrian Muslim immigrants even after the Paris terrorist attacks. It gets stranger. Ten percent of Syria is Christian, but on Obama’s watch, only about 2.5% of recent Syrian refugees have been Christian, and this even though — unlike their Muslim compatriots — Syrian Christians have nowhere in the Middle East they can go to be wholly free of persecution.

So why the stacked deck? No, Barack Hussein Obama is not secretly bowing toward Mecca five times a day on an Oval Office rug. There are almost no Christian refugees from Syria for the same reason there are almost no orphans in Haitian orphanages.

{snip}

Many Americans would happily have us take in some nice Syrians who have nowhere in the Middle East to turn, who are hunted, plundered, raped, sold and sometimes murdered. And since we have limited capacity in a world of more than 7 billion people, it makes sense to focus on those who have nowhere safe in the Middle East to turn. Yes, Sunni and Shiite Muslims persecute each other in the Middle East, but each group has Sunni or Shiite enclaves they can retreat to in the region. The Christians, meanwhile, aren’t even safe in the refugee camps.

So dangerous are the camps for Syrian Christians that they mostly avoid them. And the UN does its refugee head-counting in the refugee camps. If the Christians aren’t there to be counted, desperate as they are, then they don’t end up on the asylum lists the U.S. State Department uses for vetting potential refugees.

So, why doesn’t the White House take steps to find and include persecuted Syrian Christian in numbers at least proportionate to their slice of the Syrian population? Maybe the Obama administration just doesn’t care, but even if they cared a little, doing something serious about it would risk annoying the Muslim leaders of the Muslim-dominated countries in the Middle East.

As bad off as the Muslim refugees are, they aren’t without politically well-connected advocates in the Middle East. Many Muslim powerbrokers are happy to see Europe and America seeded with Muslim immigrants, and would surely condemn any U.S. action that appeared to prefer Christian over Muslim refugees, even if the effort were completely justified. By and large, they support Muslim immigration to the West and have little interest in seeing Christian refugees filling up any spaces that might have been filled by Muslim refugees.

The deck, in other words, is heavily stacked against the Christian refugees. The White House has been utterly feckless before the Muslim power structure in the Middle East that is doing the stacking, and has tried to sell that fecklessness to the American people as a bold stand for a religion-blind treatment of potential refugees —religion tests are un-American! It’s a smokescreen.

more at the link: https://stream.org/why-so-few-syrian-christian-refugees/

Christian Syrian Refugees -- United States Won't Admit Non-Muslims ...

www.nationalreview.com/.

Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East? - The New York Times

www.nytimes.com

The other side:

Syria's Christian Refugees: Four Wrong Assumptions - The New York ...

kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/.

Edited May 27, 2016 by B-Man

[IDBillzFan]

The deck, in other words, is heavily stacked against the Christian refugees.

 

There is nothing this story can explain to us about this Obama WH and Christians that isn't evident when you realize this WH Is stupid enough and self-absorbed enough to actuall think it's a good idea to sue a group called "Little Sisters of the Poor."

 

His record is clear: the man hates anyone who considers themselves a Christian, unless they have a donation to his campaign.

[B-Man]

Syrians, Palestinians buy bogus Honduras identities to sneak into USA...

 

[3rdnlng]

Food for thought:

 

 

It appears that Trump is not going to have to write any new law to vet the Muslim's. The Democrats have already written it and it has been the "LAW" for the last 64 years. How are Hillary and O-Hole going to explain this?

Apparently our law makers don't even recognize their own laws.

Interesting Bit of Legislative History - MacCarran Walter Act of 1952

Note:
McCarran and Walter were Democrats. This act was created in 1952 and used by Carter in 1979 …

Trump was recently severely criticized for suggesting that the U.S. should limit or temporarily suspend the immigration of certain ethnic groups, nationalities, and even people of certain religions (Muslims). The criticisms condemned such a suggestion as, among other things, being “Un-American,” dumb, stupid, reckless, dangerous and racist. Congressmen and Senators swore that they would never allow such legislation, and the president called such a prohibition on immigration unconstitutional.

As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, Surprise!!!” It seems that the selective immigration ban is already law and has been applied on several occasions. Known as the McCarran-Walter Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 allows for the "Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by president. Whenever the president finds that the entry of aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, the president may, by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”

The act was utilized by Jimmy Carter, no less, in 1979 to keep Iranians out of the United States, but he actually did more. He made all Iranian students already here check in, and then he deported a bunch. Seven thousand were found in violation of their visas, 15,000 Iranians were forced to leave the United States in 1979.

It is of note that the act requires that an applicant for immigration must be of good moral character and "attached to the principles of the Constitution.”

Since the Quran forbids Muslims to swear allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, technically, all Muslims should be refused immigration.

Authenticated
at:

http://library.uwb.edu/static/USimmigration/1952_immigration_and_nationality_act.html

 

Immigration and
Nationality Act of 1952

library.uwb.edu

US
immigration legislation online : 1952 Immigration and Nationality
Act, a.k.a. the McCarran-Walter Act (An act to revise the laws
relating to immigration

 

[B-Man]

Hey..........you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs..............amirite?

 

 

Measles outbreak traced back to inmate at Arizona immigrant detention facility as confirmed cases continue to grow

• A measles outbreak in Arizona has been traced back to an immigrant inmate at Eloy Detention Center
• There are now 11 confirmed cases in Arizona and among those infected are four workers at the facility

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3616899/Health-officials-confirm-11-cases-measles-Arizona.html#ixzz4ALJgHsKe

 

 

A Measles Outbreak Is Growing In Arizona

Huffington Post‎

 

 

Health officials confirm measles outbreak in Arizona - CBS News www.cbsnews Edited June 1, 2016 by B-Man

[B-Man]

The Narrative Collapse on Immigration

The numbers of arrivals, legal and illegal alike, are rising, not falling.

‘The immigration crisis that has roiled American politics for decades has faded into history.” That was the lede of a New York Times op-ed four years ago that neatly summarized the preferred narrative of supporters of amnesty and unlimited immigration.

This was reinforced by a Pew study that found “More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S.” (though it arrived at that headline only by counting the U.S.-citizen children of the immigrants as “Mexicans”).

The storyline was that mass immigration was a phase we’d now finished with. Thus any continued agitation about amnesty or border enforcement or job competition could only be naked racism.

Oops.

The newest data from the Census Bureau show a surge in total immigration over the past two years. In 2014 and 2015, 3.1 million new foreign-born people moved here, or about 1.5 million per year. This is up from the 2.3 million in the prior two-year period, and 2.1 million in 2010–2011.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436138/immigration-rising-legal-illegal-2016-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-republicans

 

http://cis.org/New-Data-Immigration-Surged-in-2014-and-2015

Edited June 4, 2016 by B-Man

[drinkTHEkoolaid]

Apparently more middle East "refugees" snuck in along the southern border.

 

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/shock-report-the-terrorists-are-here-border-patrol-confirms-theyve-been-smuggled-in-through-mexico_06032016

 

Nothing to see here move along folks.

[B-Man]

Boston Globe: Freed criminal immigrants commit new crimes at rate 'markedly higher than ICE officials have suggested.'

 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/04/criminal-immigrants-reoffend-higher-rates-than-ice-has-suggested/l0OpCWfTdCuTNLIAfxApAO/story.html?platform=hootsuite

 

 

 

Globe had to 'sue the federal government for the list of criminals immigration authorities returned to neighborhoods across the country.'

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Transparency

Edited June 5, 2016 by B-Man

[IDBillzFan]

Boston Globe: Freed criminal immigrants commit new crimes at rate 'markedly higher than ICE officials have suggested.'

 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/04/criminal-immigrants-reoffend-higher-rates-than-ice-has-suggested/l0OpCWfTdCuTNLIAfxApAO/story.html?platform=hootsuite

 

 

 

Globe had to 'sue the federal government for the list of criminals immigration authorities returned to neighborhoods across the country.'

​

 

 

Transparency

 

I believe this is what baskin refers to as Obama having "millions LESS illegal immigrants than the Bush years."

[DC Tom]

 

I believe this is what baskin refers to as Obama having "millions LESS illegal immigrants than the Bush years."

 

Don't all Republicans refer to it like that?

[IDBillzFan]

 

Don't all Republicans refer to it like that?

 

Only the recovering ones.

[B-Man]

No Facts, Please — We’re Making Immigration Policy

The Senate immigration subcommittee is holding a hearing Wednesday afternoon on the H-2B foreign worker program. That visa is for unskilled seasonal non-farm work; it’s used to import workers for, among others, landscaping, forestry, construction, hotels, fish-processing, restaurants – and resorts like Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. It’s a scam and should be abolished, but that’s for another day – it’s numbers I wanted to talk about now.

Unlike the H-2A visa for farmworkers, which is unlimited, the H-2B visa has a cap of 66,000 per year (though “fish roe processors, fish roe technicians and/or supervisors of fish roe processing” are not subject to the limit – no money changed hands to slip that into the U.S. Code, nosiree).

The employers importing this cheap labor want more of it – preferably an unlimited number. But they can’t get an increase through Congress, so their lobbyists hit upon a weird trick: preserve the nominal cap, but exempt any foreign worker who’d come in the prior three years. The House leadership slipped such an exemption for one year into the omnibus funding bill in December.

This “returning workers” loophole would potentially quadruple the annual number admitted, though as a practical matter it’s more likely to have doubled it. But in his defense of the H-2B increase, Speaker Ryan claimed only 8,000 additional foreign workers would be admitted because of the change.

So which is it? With members in the House and Senate already starting a push to renew this statistical trick for the coming fiscal year, the size of the increase this year would seem to be the obligatory starting point of any debate. There are no government witnesses scheduled for today’s Senate hearing on the program, so while the witnesses will provide useful information, the senators will likely not learn how many people are benefiting from the loophole. I’m reasonably confident in making that prediction because I recently asked both the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics and the State Department’s Visa Office for any numbers on this subject.

They said they have no idea. And I believe them.

The e-mail from the DHS stats office pleaded poverty

Unfortunately, OIS has been behind on its statistical reporting due to extremely low staff numbers until recently. Data through Fiscal Year 2014 has been posted on the DHS/OIS website. Fiscal Year 2015 data will be available this summer at the earliest.

 

 

And a State Department official wrote that “We are no longer using a separate visa designation for returning workers.”

While I have no doubt that the Obama administration and congressional leaders of both parties would love to suppress this information if they could, they don’t need to – it’s actually quite plausible that no one knows. An example of why I think it’s plausible: When I was researching my 2008 book, I called the DHS stats office to get the number of “commuter green cards,” an arcane thing that isn’t published anywhere. The director was a straight shooter so I believed him when he said something to the effect of “If you find out, let me know, because I have no idea and no way of finding out.”

There’s simply no excuse for this sort of thing. We’re not talking about survey data or economic modeling, which can be ambiguous or subject to varying interpretations. This is administrative data about the government’s own activities. If the executive branch can’t tell the legislature how many H-2B “returning” workers have squeezed through the loophole this year, there’s no justification for even debating a renewal of the loophole.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

[B-Man]

Not exactly "news"

 

CIA WARNS: ISIS USING IMMIGRATION

[3rdnlng]

http://conservative-daily.com/2016/06/17/obama-demands-background-checks-for-gun-owners-but-none-for-syrian-refugees/

 

More Syrian refugees have come into the country in the last five weeks than came into the country in the seven months prior.

Since the Orlando TERROR Attack – emphasis added for liberals who are convinced inanimate objects perpetrated the attack – the Obama administration has welcomed 441 Syrian refugees into the country. That number is likely higher because yesterday’s numbers haven’t been released yet.

For those keeping score at home, only 5 out of the 441 Syrians (1.1%) admitted over the past 4 days are Christians. We, as a country, declared that there is an active genocide against Christians in Syria and the Obama administration has only allocated 1% of refugee spots to these genocide victims…

It is truly mind-blowing.

We have a situation where a terrorist who swore allegiance to the Islamic State before killing almost 50 people and not only does Barack Obama go out of his way to blame guns and American gun owners, but he speeds the process up even more to bring “refugees” here faster from areas of the world controlled by this terror organization.

The worst terror attack on US soil since 9/11 and Obama is bringing in over 100 Middle Eastern “refugees” a day… His plan is to make it harder for you to defend yourself and easier for people who want to kill you to enter the country.

Obama took a vetting process that the FBI says takes 18-24 months to be sure of a refugee’s intentions and originally ordered the intelligence establishment to perform the same background check in 4 months.

Now, the White House just told them to go faster and to do it in just 2 months. That’s a more than 87% reduction in the background check process…

Hmm, let me think about that… NO!