Defying the wishes of the American
people, President Obama remains determined to import tens of thousands of
poorly screened Muslims as refugees from the civil war in Syria, and scatter
them in communities across America. Taxpayer-funded agencies are ready to help
the refugees gain access to welfare programs and enroll their children in local
public schools.
After FBI Director James Comey told
Congress on Oct. 22 that his agency is unable to vet Syrians adequately, the
House of Representatives voted by over two-thirds (289 to 137) to add an extra
layer of screening to the refugee resettlement process.
Almost two-thirds of the nation’s
governors (31 out of 50) have told the president not to send Syrian refugees to
their states without assurances that the influx would not become a Trojan
Horse. Even New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who helped re-elect Obama in
2012 with a well-timed gesture of support during Hurricane Sandy, told the president that “I will not accept any
refugees from Syria.”
Obama’s response to this groundswell
of public opinion was to lash out with peevish petulance. Speaking in Turkey,
which is 98% Muslim, Obama said: “When I hear folks say that maybe we should
just admit the Christians but not the Muslims, that’s shameful. That’s not
American. That’s not who we are.” A few days later in Malaysia, where Islam is
the official state religion, Obama said that a preference for Christian
refugees would constitute “prejudice and discrimination” that “helps ISIL and
undermines our national security.”
Since Christians are the most widely
persecuted group in the Middle East, you’d expect that Christians would be more
likely to qualify as refugees, which requires demonstrating a “well-founded
fear of being persecuted.” Yet of the 2,184 Syrian refugees Obama has already
allowed to come here during the past four years, only 53 (or 2%) are Christian and 2,098 (96%) are
Muslim, according to State Department statistics.
Databases do exist but, as Trump
says, our government lacks “good management procedures” to insure that visitors
to our country follow the law. It’s estimated that half of the 11-plus million
illegal aliens failed to leave when their time was up, even though they are on
a government database.
It’s ludicrous to think that our
government can effectively screen refugees from Syria or from any Muslim
country. Consider the following security breaches that were reported in just
one week since the Paris attacks on Friday, Nov. 13:
·
On Saturday, Nov. 14, three Syrian
men were stopped in the Caribbean island of St. Maarten after arriving on a
flight from Haiti. Using fake Greek passports, they had already flown from
Europe to Brazil, then to the Dominican Republic, then Haiti.
·
On Monday, Nov. 16, eight Syrians in
two family units (two men, two women, and four
children) were caught illegally
entering the United States from Mexico as they crossed the
Juarez Lincoln
Bridge in Laredo, Texas.
·
On Monday, Nov. 16, six young men
(five from Pakistan and one from Afghanistan)
crossed illegally from Mexico
into Arizona near Tucson. They were captured 16 miles inside
our border, and
Sheriff Paul Babeu warns that “terrorists are using well-established
smuggling
routes to come across the border.”
·
On Tuesday, Nov. 17, five young men
from Syria were detained in Honduras after
arriving from Costa Rica on their
way to Guatemala and onward through Mexico to the
United States. They were
using stolen Greek passports which had been doctored to replace
the original
photos with photos of the Syrians.
·
On Wednesday, Nov. 18, a Syrian woman
was stopped in Honduras and sent back to El
Salvador after flying on a Greek
passport. On Thursday, Nov. 19, another Syrian woman
was arrested in Costa Rica
after flying there from Peru with a fake Greek passport.
·
On Thursday, Nov. 19, eight
tough-looking young men from Morocco were arrested at
the airport in Istanbul claiming to be
tourists, but carrying maps and directions to Germany.
Turkish authorities
believe the men were being smuggled by ISIS to join the fight in Europe
on
behalf of the Muslim caliphate.
·
On Friday, Nov. 20, five Syrians,
consisting of one family unit and two additional males,
crossed the
international bridge from Mexico into the United States at Laredo, Texas. On
Saturday, Nov. 21, a Syrian woman and two Pakistani young men without passports
were
detained by officials in Honduras after they entered that country by bus
from Nicaragua,
presumably bound for the United States.
As a fitting conclusion to a week of broken borders, on Friday, Nov. 20, the Obama administration petitioned the Supreme Court to overrule the lower federal judges who blocked his executive amnesty of five million illegal aliens. Tell your elected public officials to just say no to Syrian refugees.
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