Secret refugee network ‘freaking out’ over Trump reforms
‘Thousands have plane tickets to America and nowhere to go’
01/25/2017 by LEO HOHMANN
Somali refugees arrive in the U.S. at a rate of more than 800 per month, filing into more than 300 U.S. cities and towns from U.N. refugee camps such as this one in Dadaab, Kenya.
As early as Thursday, President Trump is expected to drop a bombshell on the refugee-resettlement industry, a network of church organizations, secular NGOs and United Nations-friendly groups that are paid tens of millions of dollars every year to secretly plant Third World migrants into more than 300 U.S. cities and towns.
Trump will block the entry of migrants from countries hosting Muslim jihadists, many of them looking to relocate to Western democracies in the wake of the Islamic State’s loss of territory in Syria and Iraq.
Trump is planning a moratorium on immigration visas from seven countries of special interest – Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya. At the same time, Trump is expected to announce a pause in the resettlement of refugees from most countries for at least four months or until a better system of vetting can be developed.
Muslim advocacy groups, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, are now on the defensive. A CAIR press release Wednesday parroted the Obama administration line that refugees coming to America “are the most vetted of all those entering the country. They go through multiple levels of screening by multiple national security agencies before they can enter.”
Yet, a closer look reveals otherwise.
WND reported on “Eight bloody terror attacks on U.S. soil” in a recent 18-month period leading up to Christmas. The attacks had one thing in common – each one was carried out by a Muslim migrant or son of a Muslim migrant.
And it gets worse.
Federal agents told the Los Angeles Times Wednesday they are going back to re-investigate dozens of Syrian refugees who have already been allowed into the U.S. by the Obama administration for possible vetting “lapses.” These refugees had derogatory information in their case files that was either ignored or not followed up on, including contact with ISIS leaders. The “mistakes” occurred in 2015 and were already being investigated by the FBI before Trump’s inauguration, the Times reports.
Hundreds of Muslim migrants have been arrested on terrorism-related charges since the 9/11 attacks. Some of the most recent incidents occurred on Sept. 17 at the Crossroads Mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where a Somali refugee carried out a knife attack that wounded 10 shoppers, and another Somali refugee at Ohio State University rammed his vehicle into a crowd of students on Nov. 28, then got out and attacked them with a knife, injuring 11. Also on Sept. 17, another refugee from Afghanistan set off pipe bombs in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, injuring 29.
‘Pandering to Islamophobia?’
Trump’s aggressive actions have set the officials at CAIR, which has its own ties to terrorists hiding in its closet, on edge. The organization called a press conference Wednesday to denounce Trump’s actions, saying they were “anti-Muslim” and “pandering to fear and Islamophobia.”
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad Wednesday used inflammatory language to describe Trump’s pending executive orders. He said denying entry of refugees into America was tantamount to the former American policies of “slavery” and denying women the vote.
CAIR New York out a tweet calling for an “emergency rally” in response to Trump’s actions.
Emergency rally this evening at 5:00 p.m. in Washington Square Park by the arch. https://t.co/I31sVISOvG
— CAIR New York (@CAIRNewYork) January 25, 2017
But those in the conservative camp were celebrating the news that Trump is planning to fulfill his promise of tightening up the nation’s visa programs and giving what they believe is a long-overdue audit of the refugee resettlement program, which has dumped more than 1 million Muslim migrants on U.S. cities and towns over the last 30 years. Most of the cities were never asked if they wanted to accept refugees; they were merely “informed” of the decision after the fact.
One of the frequent complaints voiced by mayors and governors about the refugee resettlements is that they are not notified in advance of how many refugees will be placed in their cities or states, nor are they able to reject the secret placement of refugees selected by the United Nations.
Governors such as Texas Gov. Gregg Abbot and mayors in Amarillo, Texas; Athens, Georgia; Oakland County, Michigan; Manchester, New Hampshire, and other communities have actively sought to slow the flow of refugees to their jurisdictions for various reasons, often cost related, only to be told by Obama’s State Department that they had no say in the matter.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, are attempting to rectify that. Cruz said a bill introduced by the two Wednesday would require the federal government to give notice to states at least 21 days in advance of any resettlements, allowing governors to “keep their citizens safe.”
Resettlement industry ‘freaking out’
Trump’s flurry of activity this week on immigration has the advocates of refugee resettlement in absolute shock, said refugee watchdog Ann Corcoran, who blogs at Refugee Resettlement Watch.
After watching Obama expand the program from about 60,000 a year to 110,000, the resettlement industry now faces challenges that may be without precedent.
Corcoran expects a big pushback, using the establishment media to plead their case on the airwaves directly to the American people, complete with emotional appeals about victims of war and poverty unable to find refuge in America.
She said the federal contractors who serve as fronts for the federal government are “freaking out” because they stand to lose a lot of money, even if the pause only lasts four months. The nine resettlement agencies that include the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and others affiliated with the Lutheran, Jewish and evangelical churches are paid $2,050 per head for every refugee they resettle in America. They get to keep about half of that amount and also make money by securing federal grants to provide services to the refugees.
“You can imagine how the contractors are freaking out over this,” Corcoran said. “I am sure there are 3,000 or 4,000 refugees around the world with plane tickets in their hands right now and suddenly they can’t board that plane to an American city. There are all these people in the pipeline. But that’s not Trump’s problem. He’s looking out for America first.”
Will Trump go far enough?
The only question that remains for critics of the refugee program is: Will Trump go far enough? If he pauses the program for four months and then resumes accepting refugees from terrorist hot spots such as Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq, perhaps in smaller numbers than Obama did, that won’t suffice, they say.
The New York Times reported that Trump may cut the number down to 50,000 annually.
“That won’t cut it,” Corcoran said.
Even Obama brought in numbers as small as 56,000 2011 and 58,000 in 2012, Corcoran noted.
Terrorism experts such as former Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., are encouraging the president to look closely at the program and go beyond the headlines of what’s been reported by mainstream media. She believes special attention should be placed upon criminal acts by refugees that have been covered up or downplayed by the media, such as the sexual assault of a small girl in Twin Falls last summer by three refugee boys from Sudan and Iraq.
“First, the purpose of the temporary pause on refugee resettlement and visa issuance from terror propensity nations, is to secure the safety of the American people,” Bachmann told WND. “There is no compassion, where the American people are harmed by the actions of their government.
Somali refugee Abdul Ali Artan, suspect in the Ohio State University campus stabbing spree on Nov. 28, 2016, came to the U.S. from Somalia with his mother and six siblings as ‘refugees.’ (Photo: Twitter/The Lantern)
Clearly, individual U.S. citizens have been killed, raped, assaulted, robbed and intimidated by individual migrants. Journalists need to spend more time reading police blotters and reporting on the background of perpetrators.”
Watch the trailer for “Stealth Invasion”:
Civilization jihad calls for changing a nation by changing its people and its values—gradually, over time. Stealth Invasion blows the lid off a corrupt, fraudulent program that has been secretly dumping Third World refugees, many of them radical, on American cities for three decades. Americans have been kept largely in the dark about the radical plans to permanently transform their nation. Until now.
‘Sequence of events’ underway that could derail refugee program
Phil Haney, a former Homeland Security screening officer who developed a database to red-flag terrorist refugees only to have it erased by Obama’s DHS hierarchy, said Trump needs to “drain the swamp” of a refugee program that has become fraught with corruption.
But Haney, co-author of the whistleblower book “See Something Say Nothing,” said draining the water is just the beginning of the task facing Trump.
“Your work really begins after the water is drained. You have to see what is actually there buried in the muck and mire,” he said. “And if Trump has experts who are qualified to go in and conduct a forensic analysis, they’re going to find all kinds of nasty stuff down there and it will set in motion a whole sequence of events that will allow law enforcement and immigration officials to honestly evaluate the status of our current immigration policies and they’re going to find that there are a lot of problems with it.”
He said the Trump administration is likely to find discrepancies in the way the State Department issues visas, in the way the U.S. Customs Service processes people coming into the country on green cards and other lawful statuses, to the way the U.N. conducts the initial selection and vetting of refugees.
“A thorough investigation is going to set off a chain of events that are going to expose the methods of the Obama administration that operated with no oversight whatsoever,” he said. “So you find out what’s hiding down there underneath, and it’s a step-by-step process.”
Robert Spencer, author of the Jihad Watch blog and a longtime follower of radical Islam, said he believes an honest examination of how the program has affected cities and states would lead Trump’s team to enact an indefinite halt to Muslim immigration.
“The conditions that have made the ban necessary aren’t going to change,” he said. “The jihad doctrine is embedded within the core of Islam. It will continue to inspire Muslims to become jihadis. The ban should indeed be permanent, and if or when it is ever lifted, more jihad terrorists will enter the United States.”
Bachmann said most Americans will be shocked to find out the facts behind the refugee program, because too many journalists withhold the status of criminals and terrorists in an effort to obfuscate identities, not of all migrants but enough to make reform of the current program a necessity.
“Take the case of the 5-year-old girl in Twin Falls, who was sexually violated by ‘refugees,’” she said. “The media did everything in their power to ignore this outrage, but people in communities across America feel their lives are being negatively impacted by lax immigration policies. Understandably, people demanded the concerns of innocent Americans be addressed first.”
Despite the dictates of United Nations elites, who in their Agenda 2030 document state the rights of migrants to have everything from affordable housing and transportation to affordable health care and education provided to them in the nation of their choice, Bachmann said the truth is no non-citizen has any claim to these rights under the U.S. Constitution.
“Coming to America is a privilege, not a right,” she said. “I’m thrilled we are taking time to review our programs and procedures to make the system work for everyone.”
John Guandolo, a former FBI counter-terrorism specialist turned consultant to law enforcement agencies, said immigration from the world’s 57 countries with membership in the U.N.’s Organization of the Islamic Cooperation – including the Palestinian territories – constitutes a “real threat” to the United States.
“These nations are officially on record at the United Nations as signers of the Cairo Declaration (served to the U.N. in 1993), which declares Islamic nations at the head of state level understand ‘human rights’ only as Shariah defines human rights,” Guandolo told WND in an email.
“This means all Islamic nations officially state their position is that practicing homosexuals must be killed, women are property and not equal to men, non-Muslims must convert to Islam or submit to Shariah and pay the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya) or be killed, that parents may kill their children and grandchildren with no indemnity, and other similar constructs,” he added.
“This is not consistent with the laws and founding principles of America and, therefore, citizens who hail from these nations or from other nations but who hold these views about Shariah – mandated by law for all Muslims – cannot be allowed into this nation under a rational and sane policy.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/secret-refugee-network-freaking-out-over-trump-reforms/
Bureaucrats Test Trump: Another 512 Refugees Brought in on Wednesday; Ban Expected Thursday
26 Jan 2017 by Michael Patrick Leahy
Bureaucrats at the State Department brought in another 512 refugees to the United States on Wednesday, according to the department’s interactive website.
The continued influx of refugees may be an attempt by the bureaucrats and their allies at the voluntary resettlement agencies (VOLAGs) to test President Donald Trump’s resolve to deliver on his campaign promise to suspend resettlement of refugees from Syria and other countries hostile to the United States.
The VOLAGs, which include Catholic Charities, the Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, are paid more than $1 billion per year by the federal government to manage the resettlement of refugees in the United States.
Reuters, Fox Business, and Vox have all reported that President Trump is expected to sign an executive order some time this week placing a temporary ban on the arrival of refugees, and limiting the ceiling on refugees allowed into the country in FY 2017 to levels below FY 2016.
Another executive order blocking visas from seven Middle Eastern countries is also expected soon, media outlets report.
But the bureaucrats at the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, (BPRM) the agency in the department responsible for accepting arriving refugees sent to the United States by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, and transporting them to initial resettlement locations throughout the country, appear eager to accept as many new refugees as possible before President Trump explicitly orders them to stop.
On Tuesday, when media reports that President Trump was expected to order a temporary ban on refugees first surfaced, the State Department brought in 575 refugees, 75 more than the 500 refugees originally reported on the department’s interactive website as of midnight eastern on Tuesday.
In the two days since news of the pending executive order first broke, the State Department has brought in a total of 1,087 refugees, bringing the total that have arrived in the country since October 1, 2016, the beginning of FY 2017, to 31,521.
In FY 2016, a total of 84,994 refugees were resettled in the United States. The lowest number of refugees resettled in the United States during the Obama administration was in FY 2011, when 56,424 arrived.
Annual refugee resettlement in the Bush administration ranged from a low of 28,390 in FY 2003 to a high of 60,191 in FY 2008.
The last-minute flood of refugees this January has been coordinated by career bureaucrats and their allies at the VOLAGs.
Anne Richard, the Assistant Secretary of State for BPRM appointed by President Obama, resigned earlier this month.
BPRM is currently being run by a department bureaucrat working in an acting capacity.
Obstructionism by Democrats in the Senate who have held up a final confirmation vote on Secretary-of-State designate Rex Tillerson to take over the department has prevented the naming of a Trump political appointee to take over as Assistant Secretary of State at BPRM.
It is a similar story at the other federal office that manages the resettlement of refugees. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, takes over the initial resettlement responsibilities for refugees delivered to a location by the State Department.
Those duties include arranging for lodging, food, clothing, all paid for by the federal government, and signing the refugees up for a myriad of federal programs.
Robert Carey, the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement appointed by President Obama, also resigned earlier this month.
Democrats in the Senate have also delayed a final confirmation vote on Dr. Tom Price, Secretary-designate for the Department of Health and Human Services.
As a consequence, the position of director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement remains vacant, and awaits the naming of a pick by the Trump team.
In the event President Trump signs an executive order temporarily banning the arrival refugees this week, as is widely expected, the language of that document will be carefully scrutinized by the bureaucrats currently running the program at the State Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, executives with the voluntary agencies, and activists who have long argued for a temporary or permanent ban on refugees.
Sources tell Breitbart News that the federal bureaucrats who run the refugee resettlement program and voluntary agencies who manage it at the local level have filled the pipeline with an extraordinarily high number of refugees literally waiting to get on the planes coming to the United States.
An executive order signed by President Trump ordering an immediate ban on the arrival of refugees, effective upon the date of the signing, is likely to meet huge resistance from the bureaucracy at the State Department and Health and Human Services, as well as the voluntary agencies.
UPDATE:
Late Wednesday evening CNN tweeted “BREAKING: Trump will not sign orders regarding refugees or immigration from terror-prone countries, an official tells CNN.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/26/bureaucrats-test-trump-another-512-refugees-brought-wednesday-ban-expected-thursday/
Texas Rep. Calls Out Trump Wall While Los Zetas Cartel Operates in His District
26 Jan 2017 by Ildefonso Ortiz
LAREDO, Texas — A congressman from this border city has expressed his disappointment at the executive orders signed by President Donald J. Trump, calling for more border security and a wall. The comments come at the same time the Los Zetas cartel has laid claim to a local park in his district.
On Wednesday, Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) issued a statement calling Trump’s wall a 14th century solution to a 21st century problem. Cuellar denounced the plan, claiming that the move damages bilateral relations with Mexico.
Cuellar’s district includes the border city of Laredo, Texas, an area often described by public officials as being rich in international trade. While manufacturing plants and factories on both sides of the border provide a constant flow of trucks in and out of the country, the area is also one of the main smuggling corridors used by the Los Zetas Cartel.
Laredo is immediately north of Nuevo Laredo, the Mexican city that is considered the home base of the Los Zetas. The hyper-violent criminal organization has set itself apart for its ruthless executions that include beheadings, dismemberments, and other gory methods. The entire city of Laredo lacks any form of barrier, fencing, or other means of keeping smugglers or cartel operatives from crossing the river and entering the city.
Most recently, Breitbart Texas visited the municipal park, Chacon Creek, where members of the Los Zetas cartel have tagged the area with the ominous Z and “CDN”, which stands for Cartel Del Noreste.
Chacon Creek is one area in Laredo that is not patrolled by local police nor sheriff’s deputies, even though it is a main smuggling corridor used by cartel operatives. The park has a ramp that leads straight to the waters of the Rio Grande and has no physical barriers. Breitbart Texas previously reported from that same park after getting exclusive video of when human smugglers tried to cross a group of migrants using makeshift rafts. The only reason the attempt failed was because the smugglers turned back after seeing the video cameras.
Breitbart Texas has reported extensively in Laredo about the smuggling practices used by the Los Zetas cartel. In the local park known as Father McNaboe, Los Zetas smugglers continue to run bundles of marijuana on their back from the waters of the Rio Grande into nearby neighborhoods. In 2016, Breitbart Texas reported on how teams of smugglers were running though the park while children were playing soccer in broad daylight. In response to the media exposure, the Webb County Sheriff’s Office set up a surveillance tower. However, the smugglers continue to use the area with minimal difficulties.
As Breitbart Texas reported in September, a Texas man was able to park his vehicle in Father McNaboe Park, illegally cross into Mexico where he was shot by suspected cartel gunmen, swim back to Texas and have a friend drive him to a local hospital before law enforcement responded.
Rep. Cuellar’s full statement:
Today, President Trump made the disappointing move of signing an executive order setting the wheels in motion for the potential construction of a wall along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border. This is a 14th Century solution to a 21st Century problem; and a decision I cannot support.
As a law and order Democrat and a longtime advocate for tighter border security, I believe there are more effective and efficient ways to secure our borders, such as technologies currently deployed by the Department of Homeland Security including unmanned aerial systems, aerostats, video surveillance systems, and ground sensors; along with adding improvements to river access roads and increasing the number of Border Patrol agents on the ground.
During his campaign, President Trump ran on the idea of having Mexico pay for the building of a wall. Now, he is calling for U.S. taxpayers to front the bill with a cost running into the tens of billions.
Through this order President Trump is missing an opportunity to build on a great relationship that the U.S. and Mexico currently enjoy. Instead, the building of a border wall will divide our two countries that have long-standing and mutually-beneficial cultural and economic ties. American success in a global economy depends on cooperation, not isolation.
I will continue to fight to make the concerns of border communities a priority for Congress and the country. I am committed to doing my part in Congress to develop effective and efficient solutions that will address immigration and secure our borders, while not adversely affecting the international trade and tourism that is vital to our economy.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/01/26/texas-rep-calls-trump-wall-los-zetas-cartel-operates-district/
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