We learned that the Trump Administration granted a reprieve for 872 already on the way. Presumably this 468 is part of that number.
Here is where they went (from Wrapsnet): Texas was the number one destination. Alaska and Hawaii got zero.
Twenty different ethnic groups were admitted (none from the seven countries identified as terror hotspots). There were however 15 who came from Afghanistan over the weekend and 6 Palestinians. The top five are as follows:
DR Congo (136) The UN asked us to take 50,000 over 5 years and we are doing what we were told!
Bhutan (127) The UN (in 2007) wanted us to clean out some of their camps in Nepal and we are nearly finished cleaning them out. We have taken almost 100,000! (See here).
Eritrea (39)
Ukraine (37)
El Salvador (31) The Trump Admin. must address this problem—Central Americans are NOTrefugees, Obama literally wrote refugee law administratively to admit them.
Of the 468, only 43 are Muslims. The 6 Palestinians we took over the weekend are Muslims (we don’t take very many Palestinians). The 15 from Afghanistan are also Muslims.
This post is filed in ourTrump Watch!category as well as ‘refugee statistics’and ‘where to find information.’
“This is the worst deal ever,” sending “next Boston bombers” into the US!
President Donald Trump
We’ve been telling you about the rotten deal Obama made with Australia that doesn’t benefit the US one bit ever since it surfaced, here, November 4th. (One more Obama dirty deal left behind for Trump!)
In a rare show of strength on any issue involving refugees, the Chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees came out against the deal here a couple of weeks after Trump was elected. Australia has its leftist open borders agitators too. They want the offshore detention facilities closed. Protests here in Melbourne last year. http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/317561/731-manus-island-detainees-sign-new-application
But, just a couple of days agowe heard Australian Prime Minister Turnbull telling his media that the deal would be honored by President Trump. Now we are hearing the Administration’s side of it!
Before I give the latest news which I caught on CNN first thing this morning (remember I suggested you might want to watch CNN once in awhile because then you can see for yourself how they spin about news you know something about). Here is what I know and you need to know as this continues to blow up today: Australia does take refugees (CNN said this morning that they don’t!), but the Australian public doesn’t want these migrants (mostly Muslim men!) who tried to get into Australia by boat. They were sent to detention on offshore islands where they failed to be granted asylum to live in Australia. The Australian public does not want them and Turnbull is trying to save his political skin while human rights activists agitate and blast him from one side and the sensible Australian people from the other.
These are illegal migrants who failed to gain asylum in Australia! Australia doesn’t want them. Why are they our problem?
And, what are we getting from the deal? Supposedly Australia will take a number of Central American migrants parked in Costa Rica right now.*** So why are thosepeople our problem? ***Update***Excellent background report at the Center for Immigration Studies on the deal, by Nayla Rush, here.
To top it off, one of my Australian readers is saying that many of the 1,000-2,000 (numbers vary) in detention don’t want to come to “Donald Trump’s America” anyway!
Here is the news this morning, hat tip Judy:
President Trump reportedly blasted the Australian Prime Minister during a phone call between the leaders of the two longtime allies.
Trump told Australian leader Malcolm Turnbull that the conversation was “the worst call by far” among talks with various world leaders that day and ended the scheduled hour-long conversation after just 25 minutes, according to The Washington Post.
Trump was reportedly incensed that the Prime Minister expected him to abide by an Obama administration agreement to take in 1,250 refugees from Australia.
“This is the worst deal ever,” Trump told Turnbull in the call, adding that the country was trying to send the “next Boston bombers” into the US.
Trump was “yelling” at Turnbull during the call, according to SKY News in Australia, and the US president hung up the phone on him after 25 minutes.
Trump continued to rail against the refugee deal in a tweet sent Wednesday night.
“Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!” Trump tweeted.
Here we get the New York Post continuing the lie that these are ‘refugees.’ If they are legitimate refugees they are Australia’s problem!
The deal, however, includes refugees and not “illegal immigrants,” as Trump claimed.
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The refugees in the agreement have fled Iraq, Iran, Sudan and Somalia. They have been living in facilities on islands off the coast of Australia.
***This business of using refugees as pawns in political deals must stop. In April 2012I first testified to the US State Department and gave ten reasons why there needed to be a moratorium on refugee resettlement and this is #7:
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.
So come on Congress, get to work! We know you are hiding behind Trump!
Be sure to let Donald Trump know how you feel about the Australia deal today! Click here!
On Monday hundreds of liberal activists and refugee resettlement agency operatives (you pay their salaries with your tax dollars) held a conference call to plan political action against President Donald Trump’s order, that calls for a moratorium for 4 months on refugee resettlement, and his order to improve vetting for immigrants coming from dangerous terror hotspots around the world. ***Update*** I see that Breitbart also reported on this news, here yesterday with more detail. Chicago community organizer Josh Hoyt moderated the call. You may recall that Hoyt joined ACORN organizer Wade Rathke in 2011 when they they traveled to Egypt to organize there during the Arab Spring. That worked out really well! https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2011/09/05/its-september-time-for-wade-rathke-and-the-union-boys-to-organize-egypt/
(Below are some of the groups that participated.) If President Trump is cutting off federal funding to sanctuary cities how about cutting off funding for resettlement agencies who could be using federal dollars to organize against him.
The call was moderated by Joshua Hoyt, we have reported on him over the years, click here, to learn more.
They will whine about refugees.,but when you look at this list (below) and know what they are planning, it is open borders they are really pushing for—illegals, legal immigrants, it is all the same to them.
Look for the whine-fest!
In fact, on the call they said they would link their national policy agenda to emotions by using individual refugee sob stories! Refugees as pawns for their radical political agenda? I’m going to have more about the call, but I want to get these two important dates out to you: This Friday, February 3, they will be joining mosques around the country for a day of solidarity. If you have a mosque near you, you might want to go out at noon and get some photos of your local activists. They want to show loud and clear that they stand against Islamophobia! I do not recommend any counter demonstrations at the mosques.
And then on February 22ndthey plan to pound Congress in their home districts with demonstrations “in their offices” to pressure them to speak out against the Trump EO. For those asking me what to do, you should go to your local Congressional offices and counter the radicals.
I’ll have more on this later, but if I accomplish anything in the weeks and months ahead I hope it is to get you, ‘old Americans’ to understand that the pressure must be on Congress now! NOW! The RINOs and all those who want open borders for cheap laborare undermining Donald Trump at this very minute.
These community organizers UNDERSTAND that they must focus their energy on Congress. You need to understand that too!
Here are some of the groups that participated. Most annoying is that the IRC, run by British national David Miliband, is here too!
And here are the speakers on the call:
Maria Rodriguez, Florida Immigrant Coalition / NPNA / FIRM
Jen Smyers, Church World Service
Suzanne Akhras Sahloul, Syrian Community Network
Rev. Russell Meyer, Florida Council of Churches
Hans Van De Weerd, International Rescue Committee; Chair, Refugee Council USA
Monica Fuentes, Welcoming America
Stephanie Teatro, Tennessee Immigrant Rights Coalition / NPNA / FIRM
Linda Hartke, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Oscar Chacon, Alianza Americas
Selena Sujoldzic, LIRS Leadership Academy, refugee from Bosnia
Naomi Steinberg, Refugee Council USA
Tell Donald Trump (here) what they are doing and tell him to cut off any federal funding to those groups possibly using federal money to organize against the President. Nothing would hurt them more!
If they succeed and get Donald Trump and Congress to back down, you will never see reform of the refugee program in your lifetime and by then it will be too late for your children, grandchildren and great grandchildren!
Remember 57% of you support Trump’s EO on a refugee moratorium!
Trump Watch! Let President Trump know what you think by going here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact#page Update: Paul Sperry writing at the New York Post a couple of days ago asks the same question, here.
As you know there are seven countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Yemen) from which the Trump Administration is restricting immigration/entry because of terror infiltration concerns.
There are lots of countries one might question that are not on the list, but I wondered why Afghanistan isn’t an obvious choice.
Someone asked me this week whether there was an increase in ‘refugees’ being admitted from Afghanistanand I thought it seemed like there was, so I just checked.
We admitted 11,191 ‘refugees’ from Afghanistan since FY 2004 and here is what it looks like (sorry this is the best I could do with the screenshots at Wrapsnet): My columns aren’t the straightest, but see that the for FY2004 the number is 959, etc. Note the big jump in FY2016, indicating my suspicions were right.
There was a big uptick of refugee admissions from Afghanistan in FY2016. I checked religions as well and found that 97% were Muslims of some sort (not a surprise!).
As we have done in Iraq as well, we are bringing both sides of the Sunni vs. Shiite conflict to America. 4,106 were Shiites and 5,783 are Sunnis. So do we place them in the same communities in America?
A few of the 206 we admitted since last Fridayare from Afghanistan. Here is where those 11,191 were placed (from FY 2004 until yesterday):
So, again, why isn’t Afghanistan a nation of concern?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been admired by the globalists (and Islamists!) for her welcome to hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants, so this is a reminder of why we must continue to press the Trump Administration and Congress to not emulate her! Barack Obama loved and admired Mama Merkel
Merkel is up for re-election this year, so this is likely her effort to look tough!
Story this morning from the UK Express:
16 suspected ISIS jihadis ‘plotting terror attacks’ arrested in 54 German raids
GERMAN counter-terrorism police have carried out a whopping 54 raids on a group of alleged Islamic State supporters believed to be plotting an attack, authorities have said.
The raids were carried out at 3am GMT (4am local time) in the western state of Hesse and targeted 16 alleged would-be jihadis.
Businesses, homes and mosques were targeted in the raids in Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Wiesbaden.
The main suspect of the sting operation is a 36-year-old Tunisian man who has been arrested during a raid in Frankfurt.
More here.
See our complete ‘Invasion of Europe’archive which extends back for about 5 years.
Despite the noisy open borders agitators, remember, you are in the majority of Americans wishing to slow the flow of refugees from terrorist regions of the world!
Let Donald Trump know how you feel! Click here. Tell him to save us from what Germany now faces!
