There I’ve said it. I know most respectable immigration control advocates won’t say it. It is just too politically-incorrect for most people, but it has to be said. Many are afraid of what CAIR will say (LOL! they have already come out to warn against backlash!), but most are just plain afraid to be called racist, xenophobic, bigoted boobs.
I don’t know what the total number of Muslims we admit each year is (the State Department knows, but does not release that information), but it is substantial via our Refugee Resettlement Program which includes refugees the US State Department brings here, and those who come seeking asylum.
And, as for the latter, remember that not all of those coming across our borders in the dark of night are Mexicans looking for landscaping and nanny jobs—OTMs (Other than Mexicans) account for thousands each year. The Gang of Eight bill now before the US Senate would allow those from Islamic countries to get on the path to citizenship.
National War College Report
Yesterday, as news unfolded from Boston, I couldn’t help but think about State Department official David Robinson’s report to the National War College in 2000 in which he tells us the sorry tale of Clinton/Gore demanding that we airlift thousands of Kosovars to the US to show that there was a need for the Balkan war. You see a war wouldn’t be a real one without “refugees.”
A short time later we hauled many of them back to Kosovo, here.
Cheering the decision for an airlift were the federal refugee contractors (euphemistically called Voluntary Agencies—Volags for short) who get paid by the head (by you!) to resettle the refugees.
That report opened my eyes to the realization that we were using the refugee program for political reasons unrelated to the plight of the poor and suffering camp-dwelling people you are accustomed to seeing as the poster children for the program.
The Boston bomber brothers are just two of those belonging to a particular Muslim ethnic group we are moving into your towns and cities for some other foreign policy reason unrelated to their supposed suffering.
US State Department hearing
Last year, at the State Department hearing on how many refugees to bring in FY2013, I listed ten reasons we needed a moratorium on the whole program. That testimony is here. Numbers 3 and 7 relate to my point here this morning:
3) Terrorist organizations (mostly Islamic) are using the program that still clearly has many failings in the security screening system. Indeed consideration should be given to halting the resettlement of Muslims altogether. Also, the UN should have no role in choosing refugees for the US.
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7) Congress needs to specifically disallow the use of the refugee program for other purposes of the US Government, especially using certain refugee populations to address unrelated foreign policy objectives—Uzbeks, Kosovars, Meshketians and Bhutanese (Nepalese) people come to mind. [editors note: Bhutanese are not Muslims]
Regarding #7, we have chronicled on many occasions over the last five plus years problems with refugee groups we resettled for questionable foreign policy reasons. Now we can add Chechens! Was our government helping out a foreign government (Russia!) by bringing them here in apparently large numbers?
Naive people involved in refugee resettlement have this crazy notion that America is a magic melting pot whose power is so great that Islamists will give up their Koranic admonition to wage jihad in exchange for the good life—a job, a house, a car and other material goodies.
Let’s list just a few “refugee” ethnic groups that have created problems here in addition to Chechens:
Kurds, Somalis, Ethiopians, Uzbeks, Bosnians, Iraqis, Albanians—we have written about them here at one point or another having created problems for the communities to which they were distributed. Look for more Muslims to be resettled from Syria, Afghanistan, and Burma (Rohingya!).
Don’t forget! Once the seed community is established the original settlers can apply to bring their family members with the help of the Volags (who are paid to do the paperwork processing).
Send a message to the US State Department
The next hearing on how many (and which refugees) to bring to America in FY2014 is in May. Go here to see how you can send in testimony. You do not have to be an expert on the program and testimony can be short (civil please)!
And, don’t forget! Al-Hijra, the Islamic Doctrine of Immigration, buy it and read it!
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