There is a computer program that estimates age from appearance, and many of the kiddies are determined to be adults. [...]]]>
There is a computer program that estimates age from appearance, and many of the kiddies are determined to be adults. And in most cases, simple eyeballing works well enough to determine the frauds looking to kill infidels or mooch welfare benefits in Europe. See the Daily Mail’s report, “How old are they really? Damning verdict of face recognition software on ‘child’ migrants.”
And why do the Brits have to admit illegal alien Middle Eastern Muslims anyway? Wasn’t BREXIT largely about immigration control and reclaiming national sovereignty?
Today’s horror story concerns a foster family who thought they were getting a 12-year-old orphan boy from Afghanistan but ended up with an eventual death threat from an adult jihad after he had lived with the welcoming parents and their children.
]]>Migrant foster mum reveals her horror at discovering ’12-year-old refugee’ in her care is actually a 21-year-old Jihadi, The Sun (UK), October 22, 2016
Kind-hearted Rosie became suspicious when she noticed Afghan lad was ‘hairy’ and was ‘adept at firing rifle’
A FOSTER mum who took in a child refugee has told of her horror after discovering he was a 21-year-old jihadi.
Kind-hearted Rosie welcomed Jamal into her family after social workers said he was a 12-year-old orphan who had fled Afghanistan.
But she became suspicious when she noticed how hairy he was, and how adept he was at firing a rifle.
Jamal was rumbled when a dentist estimated he was a decade older than claimed.Taliban material and child abuse images were later found on his mobile.
The blunder comes after migrants claiming to be children were bussed to the UK from Calais’ Jungle camp. It is feared terrorists could use the same ruse.
Rosie, whose full name we are hiding to protect her from reprisals, said: “Adults are playing the system. It’s putting families like mine and society as a whole at risk.
“I don’t see anything wrong with dental and bone density checks. Some say they are intrusive and degrading. But having a man in your home who’s pretending to be a child is far more intrusive.”
When Rosie and husband Pete, 57, took in Jamal they all switched to halal meat.
She said: “He looked thin and I thought, ‘Bless him’. He was so humble, polite.”
He roomed with a boy, aged 13. Two girls, 12 and 14, were also in the house.
Alarm bells rang when the family went swimming and Rosie’s 13-year-old commented on how hairy he was.
At a climbing centre he shimmied up ropes with ease, and at a shooting range he stripped a gun before firing it.
On a bus to college he was told to get off by a driver who didn’t believe he was 16. Rosie, who lives in the South East, said: “It’s ridiculous how everybody else could see it but not the social workers.”
Jamal’s behaviour worsened. He put the 13-year-old in expert holds, demanded cash and got calls from unknown numbers.
One day he claimed he couldn’t pray because there were too many posters on his wall. The interpreter told him, “What do you mean? Allah doesn’t mind?”
His last words to Rosie were: “I’ll kill you and I know where your children are.”
She added: “I can’t say he was a terrorist but I do think he came from a training camp. He was a great actor.
“Every day I check the car, and that all the house windows are shut. I panic because I know he knows our routine.”
Since being arrested for an alleged assault, Jamal has been turned down for asylum but is appealing.
MP David Davies, who is demanding stronger checks, said: “If we don’t do this then we will see men in their 20s placed with vulnerable children in foster care and in classrooms.”
In fact, the Daily Mail reported a year ago: “Three hundred Bosnian war criminals are living in the US… as feds move to deport at least half of them”.
Why not deport every single one of them? They’re war criminals. What kind of government won’t deport war criminals?
Today’s subject, Zdenko Jakisa (pictured) was accused of murder back home in Bosnia and lying about his past to enter the US.
Interestingly, Jakisa apparently committed several crimes in this country after being resettled by the helpful friend of foreign lawbreakers, Catholic Charities.
]]>Former refugee who concealed Bosnian war-era crimes will be deported from the U.S. after living in Minnesota for 18 Years, Associated Press, February 11, 2016
A man who came to the United States as a refugee from war-torn Bosnia almost two decades ago will be deported for concealing a long criminal past in his home country, including the killing of an elderly Serbian neighbor, a federal judge said on Thursday.
Zdenko Jakisa, 47, settled in Minnesota in 1998, obtaining permanent residency four years later.
He apologized in court for withholding information when he first came to the United States, saying he felt at the time he had no choice.
‘The reason I was lying was only to save my life and my wife’s life,’ he told Judge Susan Richard Nelson. ‘I did not come here to hurt anyone, or do anything.’
Authorities said in 2014 that when he was filling out refugee and legal permanent resident applications, he didn’t disclose that he had served in the armed forces of the Croatian Defense Council in Bosnia-Herzegovina and had gone to prison.
Nelson told Jakisa she was in no position to judge him for actions committed during the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
‘I need to sentence you for the crime that you’ve been convicted of, which is misrepresenting important material matters on your immigration application,’ she said, issuing an order that he be removed from the United States.
As part of his plea, Jakisa agreed he was a Bosnian citizen and that he would surrender to US immigration officials as early as Tuesday.
It was not immediately clear when he would leave the country, but his attorney said he hoped it would be with days or weeks.
In Bosnia, Jakisa was convicted of various crimes including killing his neighbor by firing an AK-47 through her bedroom window and and kidnapping, robbing and assaulting a Bosnian Muslim man in 1993. He was also convicted of assault, disturbing the peace and other criminal activities.
Jakisa and his wife, Anna, have been living in suburban Forest Lake, where they co-owned a taxi business.
He has a lengthy criminal record in Minnesota, including multiple convictions for driving while impaired, disorderly conduct and obstructing legal process.
The judge attributed many of his recent troubles to mild mental illnesses, including post-traumatic stress disorder, and alcoholism, but said he had made progress toward getting better.
According to a June 6, 2012, article in the Forest Lake Press, Jakisa and his wife applied to come to the United States in 1998 through the US Embassy in Croatia.
They were approved through a lottery system and sponsored by Catholic Charities and a local church.
That article mentions that Jakisa was required to serve in the military in Croatia’s 1991-95 war for independence from the Serb-led Yugoslavia.
‘I lost tons of my friends,’ Jakisa told the newspaper. ‘My brother is also in a wheelchair, shot in the spine. There is almost no person in Croatia who did not lose somebody or is not crying for somebody.
‘It was a bad war for nothing, just good for government people so they can still talk lies to their own people.’
Authorities in Bosnia have said Jakisa is wanted for questioning in an investigation into war crimes there, but provided no details.
More than 100,000 people were killed during the conflict, which also turned half the country’s population of 4.3million into refugees.
Below, Somali asylum seeker Youssaf Khaliif Nuur appeared in court to be charged with the murder of Mezher. Nuur is six feet tall and claims to be 15.
It’s not just Europe stupidly believing lying adults who say they are minors: middle-aged illegal alien hispanics were allowed to enroll in a Massachusetts high school in 2014. The practice endangers genuine young people as well as staff.
Medical science can determine ages to a degree, but many countries are too politically correct to draw a line against refugee age fraud, even when old-fashioned eyeballing reveals the truth.
Below, the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (in suit) poses with well developed residents of a child refugee center.
In other Swedish diversity news, The Local reports “Swedish asylum staff attacked by rioting youth” (Jan 28).
Staff at a home for refugee children in southern Sweden were forced to barricade themselves in a room on Wednesday night, after 19 young men in their care rioted and attacked them with weapons.
Kudos to the DM for calling BS on the Somali perp’s age. The Express did not, blurring the killer’s face and referring to him as a “boy.”
]]>First picture of ’15-year-old’ Somali asylum seeker who ‘stabbed to death’ Swedish social worker as he appears in court charged with her murder, Daily Mail (UK), January 28, 2016
Six-foot tall, the ‘child’ accused of murdering a Swedish aid worker appeared in court today.
Somali-born Youssaf Khaliif Nuur, charged with murdering Alexandra Mezher, 22, towered over his translator as he walked into the courtroom in Gothenburg.
She was knifed to death as she tried to break up a fight at the shelter for unaccompanied child refugees where she worked alone in charge of ten youths.
She died saving the life of another resident whom allegedly knife-wielding Khaliif Nuur was trying to kill, police sources said. Swedish prosecutors admit they do not know if Somalian Khaliif Nuur, supposedly aged 15, is his true identity.
Psychology graduate Miss Mezher had warned her mother she was caring for ‘big powerful guys’ aged up to 24 in the shelter for children aged 14 to 17.
Children’s asylum applications are fast-tracked in Sweden, prompting some grown men to lie and say they are teenagers. Handcuffed Khaliif Nuur, looking older than his supposed 15 years, was ushered into court wearing a blanket over his head, a white T-shirt, light blue shirt and jeans.
Judge Henrik Andersson asked him: ‘Are you Youssaf Khaliif Nuur?’ and he nodded and said yes.
He asked if he wanted to make a statement regarding the charges of murder and attempted murder, and his lawyer Nicklas Unger said: ‘My client does not want to express himself in any way regarding the charges.’
He said his client objected to being held in custody, but prosecutor Linda Viking argued he might abscond or interfere with evidence if he was bailed.
The hearing then continued behind closed doors, and the alleged killer was later remanded into custody until February 11.
Outside court prosecutor Linda Viking said: ‘The suspect has said he is 15 so that is what is charged as. But we are checking his date or birth and name to make sure they are accurate.’
She said he had arrived in Sweden last summer. Asked how he travelled, she said: ‘I can’t comment on that.’
A source close to the investigation told MailOnline: ‘Youssaf Khaliif Nuur is older than 15. You can see he has moustache and a beard. He shaves but you can see he has facial hair.
‘He is between 16 and 20 I believe. He is from Somalia. He left Africa less than a year ago. He has only recently arrived in Sweden. He spoke the Somalian language very well,’ they added.
The bloodshed happened at breakfast on Monday at the child shelter in Mölndal, a suburb of Gothenburg, where Miss Mezher was the only member of staff on duty.
Khaliif Nuur allegedly launched an unprovoked attack on another youth, and Miss Mezher intervened and was stabbed in the back and thigh, and died in hospital hours later. ‘The murder started with an attack on another man,’ a source at Gothenburg Police told MailOnline today.
‘There was an argument between the suspect and another resident at the hostel. I don’t know the reason for the argument between the two residents. But in some way this woman got between them. She was trying to break up the fight.
‘This lady [Alexandra Mezher] tried to separate them and told him [Youssaf Khaliif Nuur] to stop but he [allegedly] stabbed her.’
The source dismissed any suggestion that the killing had a sexual motive. He added murder suspect Youssaf Khaliif Nuur, 15, had complained of feeling ‘unwell’ the night before and had not slept at all in the hours before the alleged attack.
The teenager is currently being held at a secure psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Gothenburg.
The Gothenburg Police source told MailOnline: ‘There was no sexual motive in the murder. This Somali man did not have a motive for the attack other than he was not feeling well. This lady tried to separate them and told him to stop but he stabbed her.
‘The suspect had been up all night. He had said he was not feeling well the night before.’
Managers of the adolescent migrant centre should not have let Miss Mezher work the night shift on her own if they knew one of the residents was suffering a mental health breakdown, the Gothenburg Police source claimed.
He told MailOnline: ‘If the management of the centre knew that one of the residents was not [mentally] well [they] should have got in extra staff to help her that night.’
The source, who has worked for Gothenburg Police for over 30 years, has detailed the ‘explosion in crime’ in the Swedish city since the country ‘threw open the doors’ to mass immigration.
He told MailOnline: ‘We have experienced an explosion in crime, particularly violent crime, since our politicians threw open the doors to immigrants from all over the world. I have worked in Gothenburg for over 30 years and I have never known anything like it.
‘The city always had a bit of trouble, but it was usually among people who were drunk and knew each other.
‘But now I will not let my children go into the city after 2pm and especially not at night. There are violent gangs roaming around the streets and the use of knives and other weapons have become normal, rather than a rarity as it used to be.
‘There are 20 robberies in Gothenburg every day – usually with violence or the threat of violence. This week an 83-year-old lady had a gun put in her face when she was mugged on her way to play bingo. They got away with just 50 Kroner [about £4].
‘In the summer there were mass shootings with lots of people killed, including a little girl.’ He added the city streets were now at the mercy of gangs of young men mainly from North Africa.
The source revealed: ‘In the past couple of months we have noticed a dramatic increase in street robbery. This is a new phenomenon.
‘They will do anything to get money – steal a person’s wallet, iPhone, jewellery. And then they will attack their victim and kick them half to death.
‘Drug crime has gone through the roof. Every drug is available on the street nowadays, even in broad daylight. And when the police arrest someone nowadays the suspect often fights back – with a knife or a screwdriver. This is not something we have seen before.’
‘The murder started with an attack on another boy,’ a source at Gothenburg Police told MailOnline today. There was an argument between the suspect and another resident at the hostel.
‘I don’t know the reason for the argument between the two residents.
But in some way this woman got between them. She was trying to break up the fight.
‘Miss Mezher tried to separate them and told the suspect to stop but then he [allegedly] stabbed her.’
The source dismissed any suggestion that the killing had a sexual motive.
He added murder suspect Nuur, 15, had had complained of feeling ‘unwell’ the night before and had not slept at all in the hours before the alleged attack.
It has been suggested that Nuur has psychological issues and had a breakdown in the hours before the attack and complained of hearing voices in his head.
The source revealed: ‘The knifeman may have had some kind of breakdown. He may have suffered some trauma previously in his life.’
The source said he was heard pacing around his bedroom for most of the night before the attack at 8am on Monday.
The teenager is currently being held at a secure psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Gothenburg.
The Gothenburg Police source told MailOnline: ‘There was no sexual motive in the murder.
‘This Somali boy did not have a motive for the attack other than he was not feeling well.
‘This lady tried to separate them and told him to stop but he stabbed her.
‘The suspect had been up all night. He had said he was not feeling well the night before.’
Managers of the child refugee centre should not have let Miss Mezher work the night shift on her own if they knew one of the residents was suffering a mental health breakdown, the Gothenburg Police source claimed.
He told MailOnline: ‘If the management of the centre knew that one of the residents was not [mentally] well should have got in extra staff to help her that night.
Legal adult Faisal Faisal, below, missed Mom’s home cooking back in Iraq.
Was this article supposed to be a distraction from the one million plus illegal aliens arriving in Europe in 2015? — as in See, they’re not all staying? The piece did mention the tiny numbers of actual returners — 35,000 out of more than a million, although that fact was buried in a middle paragraph.
At least Faisal Faisal was a decent example of avaricious Middle Easterners looking for a deluxe handout in Europe, so perhaps attentive readers would understand that some (many!) of the swarming newbies are economic opportunists rather than actual war refugees (although there are some of those).
]]>Unhappy in Europe, some Iraqis return home, Washington Post, January 1, 2016
BAGHDAD — At 25, Faisal Uday Faisal had high expectations when he packed his bags for Europe in September.
After quitting his job making tea and cleaning for the Ministry of Education in Baghdad, he set off to Turkey to join more than a million refugees and migrants who have made their way to the continent in the past year.
“My dream since I was a child was to go to Europe,” he said. “I was imagining a beautiful life, a secure life, with an apartment and a salary.”
But despite a grueling month-long journey to Sweden, he came back home – one of a surging number of returnees, Iraqi and international authorities say. The International Organization for Migration says it helped 779 Iraqis come back from Europe voluntarily in November, more than double the previous month, and those figures don’t include people such as Faisal, who returned on his own.
Some have chosen to leave because they were confused about the asylum process, disillusioned with the lack of opportunities or homesick, while others were forced to go when their asylum claims were rejected.
“It was a boring life there, their food even a cat wouldn’t eat it,” Faisal said of his two months in an asylum center near the Swedish city of Malmo. “I went to Europe and discovered Europe is just an idea. Really, it’s just like Bab al-Sharji,” he said, referring to a Baghdad market neighborhood.
While some who come back of their own volition may not have been fleeing danger in the first place, aid agencies warn that legitimate asylum seekers are also being discouraged as Europe becomes less welcoming to newcomers and tries to tighten its borders. Finland and Belgium are among the countries that have warned arrivals from Baghdad that they won’t automatically receive asylum.
Faisal concedes that he left for economic reasons, the kind of asylum applicant European authorities are trying to sift out from those fleeing violence. He said he decided to “arrange a story” about being threatened by Iraqi militias. “If I was in danger, I wouldn’t have come back,” he said.
Faisal begged his father, who had already spent $8,000 on sending his sons to Europe, to send money so he could come home. “He missed the services here. At home everything is done for him,” said Faisal’s father, Uday Faisal Mohee.
“The problem is, the words Europe or America has such magic for the young people. This one is still affected even though he knows the reality,” he said, pointing to his younger son, who returned to Iraq after being detained in Turkey en route but still wishes to try again.
“There are thousands of Iraqis who have come back, and thousands more that want to,” said Sattar Nowruz, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Displacement. Iraqi embassies in Europe are scrambling to provide emergency travel documents for those travelling back.
Nowruz said many young Iraqis were encouraged by television broadcasts of hundreds of thousands flocking to Europe this summer. According to the United Nations’ humanitarian organization, 8 percent of the nearly 1 million refugees and migrants who have arrived in Europe by sea this year were Iraqi – nearly 80,000 people.
“It has a direct effect on those that genuinely need asylum,” Nowruz said. “Certainly there are many that have suffered violence.”
Aid agencies say asylum seekers are struggling to have their cases heard.
“Some authorities are encouraging applicants to return,” said Shannon Pfohman, head of policy for Caritas Europa, “implying that they won’t get asylum, won’t get a job and generally painting a bleak picture.”
A total of 35,000 refugees and migrants left Europe “voluntarily” from the beginning of the year to November, Pfohman said. “But really much of it is more forced. It’s not clear what extent it’s voluntary,” she said, adding that a further 17,000 were deported.
Those fleeing certain countries are being increasingly lumped together, she said, whereas each claim should be individually assessed. But asylum systems are overwhelmed.
The uncertainty and often chaotic claims process has led even some of those fleeing the worst of the Islamic State’s atrocities to give up and return to a life of displacement.
After spending $11,000 traveling to Germany, and four months waiting for his asylum claim to be processed there, Ibrahim Abdullah, a 42-year-old member of the minority Yazidi sect, returned to his camp in northern Iraq in October.
He was displaced in the Islamic State’s devastating assault on the northern Yazidi town of Sinjar last year. Hundreds of thousands fled. Yazidi men who were captured were killed and dumped in mass graves, and women were sold as sex slaves.
Kurdish forces recaptured Sinjar last month, but the town has been reduced to rubble by fighting and U.S. airstrikes that backed the counteroffensive there. Abdullah’s village on its outskirts is still under the Islamic State’s grip.
Despite having little to return to, Abdullah became concerned that he would not be able to bring his 16-year-old son and wife to join him in Germany as he had originally hoped.
“It was a camp there, or a camp here,” he said. Returning, he said, was the most difficult decision of his life.
“I’ve been with my family all my life. I’ve never been away from them. They were telling me to stay, but I couldn’t,” he said. “I wanted to take my family to Europe where there’s peace and security, where we are treated like humans. Here, as a minority, we don’t feel accepted.”
Some return to less than they had when they left.
Wissam Razzaq, 34, had lived in a rented house with his wife and four children before he left for Finland in September. He sold his taxi, his source of income, to help pay for the 27-day trip.
His brothers had both died during Iraq’s sectarian bloodletting, one in 2006 and another the following year. His neighborhood was regularly hit by car bombs. He felt he had a genuine claim and would be able to bring his family to join him.
But he had just one asylum interview in the 45 days he spent in Finland – during his first week there. He felt unwelcomed as right-wing protests against refugees were held.
“If I found only 20 percent of what I’d imagined, I’d have stayed,” he said.
With no source of income, Razzaq and his family have had to move into a room of his parents’ house.
“I’ve come back and I’ve had to start from the bottom again, from zero,” he said. “All my efforts and suffering were for nothing.”
In the clip below from a one-hour speech, McCaul observed about ISIS:
“This is not a terrorist group on the run; this is a terrorist [...]]]>
In the clip below from a one-hour speech, McCaul observed about ISIS:
“This is not a terrorist group on the run; this is a terrorist group on the march.”
You can watch the entire December 7 speech on C-SPAN: State of Homeland Security.
On Sunday, McCaul remarked that the security community did not see the San Bernardino attack coming, which must have rattled him some. He further said that the government cannot prevent all the attacks: “It’s almost impossible to stop it all.”
In his Monday speech, he also remarked, “I believe 2015 will be seen as a watershed year in this long war — the year when our enemies gained an upper hand and when the spread of terror once again awoke the West.”
McCaul’s view of the state of national security is quite different from the pablum delivered by Obama in his Sunday White House speech.
]]>ISIS has targeted refugee program to enter US, Homeland Security chairman says, The Hill, December 7, 2015
Intelligence officials have determined that Islamic extremists have explored using the refugee program to enter the United States, the head of the House Homeland Security Committee said on Monday.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) declined to go into detail about the determination, which the Obama administration has not announced publicly.
Yet the disclosure could give ammunition to critics of the White House’s refugee plans who have warned that the program is vulnerable to infiltration by adherents of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
“ISIS members in Syria have attempted to exploit it to get into the United States,” McCaul said during a speech at the National Defense University.
“The U.S. government has information to indicate that individuals tied to terrorist groups in Syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the U.S. refugee program.”
McCaul would not say specifically who informed him and other lawmakers about the revelation, only describing the sources as “elements of the intelligence community.”
“That was very courageous for them to come forward with this, to tell me about this personally, given the political debate on the Hill,” he added, suggesting that the news did not come from intelligence leaders.
The briefing happened “earlier this week,” McCaul said.
The White House would not confirm or deny McCaul’s claim, instead referring reporters to his office to explain where he got the information.
A spokesman with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence also declined to comment on the record about the assertion.
McCaul’s speech comes amid escalating concerns about Islamic extremism in the West, following the killings of 130 people in Paris and 14 in San Bernardino, Calif. The massacres have caused American fears about terrorism to spike, and left Congress grasping for a response.
President Obama has repeatedly pushed back against warnings that ISIS could attack the United States by sending over fighters as refugees.
The Syrian civil war has killed more than 200,000 people since it began in 2011, and forced more than 4 million refugees to flee.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest defended the U.S. refugee screening process, which typically takes two years for an individual to complete.
“Those individuals who seek to enter the United States through the refugee resettlement program do so only after undergoing the most intensive screening of anybody who attempts to enter the United States,” Earnest told reporters on Monday.
Refugees undergo rigorous screenings that last for up to two years, the administration has said, making them among the most thoroughly vetted people coming into the country.
Still, Republicans and some Democrats have been wary of the president’s plans to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country next year.
Last month, the House voted overwhelmingly to make it more difficult for refugees from Iraq and Syria to enter the United States.
In his speech Monday, McCaul painted a bleak picture of American national security, which he compared to the World War II fight against fascism.
The current threat posed by Islamic extremists is greater than at any time since 9/11, he said, and ISIS is “now more dangerous than al Qaeda ever was under Osama bin Laden.”
“I believe the state of our homeland is increasingly not secure,” McCaul said.
“I believe 2015 will be seen as a watershed year in this long war — the year when our enemies gained an upper hand and when the spread of terror once again awoke the West.”
The chairman’s dire outlook stood in contrast to the message from Obama, who less than 24 hours before attempted to reassure the nation about terrorism in his third-ever address from the Oval Office.
“The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it,” Obama said.
“We will destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us. Our success won’t depend on tough talk, or abandoning our values, or giving into fear,” he added, using an alternate acronym for ISIS. “Instead, we will prevail by being strong and smart, resilient and relentless, and by drawing upon every aspect of American power.”
McCaul’s comments could signal a renewed commitment to keep national security at the forefront of Congress’s focus, even as it rushes to finish its legislative work and adjourn for the year.
This week, the House is expected to take up legislation tightening a program allowing travelers from 38 countries to enter the U.S. without a visa. The reform is the only White House recommendation that Congress is likely to act on in the wake of the recent killings.
“This is just the beginning,” McCaul promised. “Over the coming weeks, we will introduce a slate of new bills based on the findings of the [bipartisan congressional] task force to keep terrorists from crossing our borders.”
Among other steps, McCaul said that lawmakers were interested in further hardening the country’s borders against extremists, sharing intelligence with foreign countries and developing a special commission to examine challenges posed by the proliferation of encryption technologies, which prevent the government from intercepting a suspect’s messages.
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McCain’s latest is using the photo of the dead Syrian kid to demand this country take in more refugees, despite the obvious national security threat from a population that cannot be properly vetted.
Plus the administration changed screening guidelines over a year ago so more Syrians could be admitted, including those with terrorist connections. Another problem is the new popularity of fraudulent Syrian passports so any Middle-Eastern-looking person can claim to be a victim refugee.
Furthermore the story about the drowned boy has unravelled considerably since the media raised a big squawk about it a week or so ago. Apparently the family members weren’t fleeing for their lives from Syria, but left safe Turkey seeking more money and dental implants for the father in Europe. Or something like that.
Senator McCain appeared with his open-borders pal Senator Graham on the Fox News morning show Saturday, where Tucker Carlson asked the questions about the push from elites to force many thousands of Syrian refugees on Americans. Incredibly, Graham twice dragged out the old Statue of Liberty canard to make his point, as if the 19th century work of art (titled Liberty Enlightening the World) has anything to do with immigration or refugee policy.
Both senators maintained they wanted to keep out the jihadists, but had no specifics about how that might be accomplished in a situation of so much chaos and fraud. Not reassuring.
]]>CARLSON: Is allowing any refugees at all into this country in the best interest of Americans? Well, joining us now Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, also a Republican presidential hopeful, as well as Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain. Welcome to both senators, good to see you. Senator McCain, first to you. It sounds like the overwhelming majority of these refugees, at least the ones fleeing Syria, are men. Probably a lot of them are combatants, that makes sense. Why is it in the interest of Americans to have them come here?
McCAIN: Well, we have always welcomed refugees under certain circumstances, but Tucker you raised the salient question here is you gotta know who these people are and to be screened. They have to be carefully examined before they would have any chance of entering the United States. If I were Mr Baghdadi I might be sending a few of my recruits as refugees to be able to come to United States.
So before we do anything I want to be sure that there is a process that makes sure that they should not going to be people that endanger the country but one other point, Tucker, this is the result of a failure of leadership. This is a result of the failure of a feckless foreign policy that has caused the greatest humanitarian crisis since World War Two. I want the problem solved and that means destroying ISIS, that means unseating Bashar Assad and that means getting up a foreign policy and strategy that would defeat the cause of this problem.
CARLSON: Right let’s that makes absolute sense. Senator Gramm to you, of course the US has let in more refugees than any other country over the past 100 years, but if you’re an American whose kids go to school that’s not that good, you pay too much in taxes, why will allowing refugees from this crisis into US to settle, how will it improve your life? Why should you be in favor of that?
GRAHAM: Well, we’re Americans. We’ve taken two thousand Syrian refugees. Two hundred and thirty thousand people have been killed in Syria. Women are being gang-raped by the thousands, so I would like to think that America’s a special place, that Americans have welcomed people in the past who have been fleeing oppression — go read what’s on the Statue of Liberty — I want to balance our national security against our character and — go read what’s on the Statute of Liberty — but I want to do one thing: destroy ISIL.
President Obama’s plans to destroy ISIL are not working. Nobody on our side has a plan either. If I’m president United States we’re going to send more ground troops in Iraq, we’re going to get a regional army up, and we’re going to go into Syria with him about eight to ten thousand of us and we’re going to destroy the Caliphate and we’re going to push aside to stop this. Tucker, the worst is yet to come if we don’t deal with Syria.
CARLSON: Senator McCain, when you read stories about law enforcement in say, Minneapolis, having to deal with people joining ISIS — that’s a result of our refugee resettlement policy — and you don’t worry a lot about that happening again or to a greater degree?
McCAIN: I worry a great deal, I worry enormously. As I said, I want to make sure that anybody who comes to this country from anywhere under any circumstances but particularly this group of refugees. And I think we have ought to have a debate and discussion in the Congress, not an arbitrary decision by President Obama. I’m not for unleashing a flood of refugees in this country.
Don’t get us wrong here Tucker, let’s not let’s not misportray especially what I’m saying. There are some refugees that I think we could take into this country as we have, as we did after the Vietnam War and we have in other places but they have to be sure that they are not a threat to the United States of America. Now what has happened is people have been recruited and radicalized by the internet. You’re talking about two different problems here, my friend.
GRAHAM: I’m not going to turn my back on this problem. I’m not going to turn my back on the source of the problem which is a failed policy of Barack Obama.
CARLSON: Gentlemen, thanks for joining us this morning.
The BBC had a story in April that tracked African aliens; one was a Gambian Muslim who journeyed over 4500 miles to reach the first-world opportunities in Europe in order to support his large polygamous family. But Europe has opened its borders wide for “refugees” so people like the Gambian are taking advantage of a situation.
The Mediterranean’s migrant survivors, BBC, April 23, 2015
Malick Touray, 30, The Gambia
Malick, a 30-year-old mobile phone technician, describes how he began his journey across Africa to Europe in October 2012 because of his financial situation, struggling to support his extended family.He had finished school early and started work because his father – who has three wives – could no longer pay school fees for Malick and his 18 other children. [. . .]
Another odd behavior is that towns stuck with diverse “refugees” now have Celebrations on or around June 20 organized by professional resettlement experts (the well paid persons who instruct primitive tribal people about how to operate light switches and stoves).
Erie Pennsylvania is having a Refugee Celebration as are Jacksonville Florida and Wakefield Oregon. Isn’t that like having an Ebola Celebration? Don’t people feel un-celebratory about being forced to leave their ancestral homes and be resettled in an alien culture?
But the point is that resettlement workers want to display their liberal virtue of extreme diversity and inclusion as well as promote the importation of refugees in a positive way — hey, let’s have some foreign people on welfare do their native dances!
Below, Bhutanese perform a cultural program in Erie, where the refugee population has surpassed 10,000:
The festivities constitute another version of celebrating diversity, which seems to be the highly enforced prime directive in these days of open borders.
The celebrations also distract attention away from what’s causing all the refugee turmoil: Islam doing its traditional thing of conquering infidel lands for Allah as well as killing other Muslims who aren’t sufficiently Islamic in the mind of the jihadists.
Below, an 1800-year-old church in Mosul was burned by Muslims last year.
Check out the chart of top refugee sources, compiled by the New York Times. Like last year, the top refugee creators are Islamic, namely Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia. See my report from 2014: World Refugee Day: Jihad on the March,
But elite media promotes emotion, not analysis, about refugees so we rich first-worlders will feel guilty and willing to rescue lots more historic enemies. It’s ugly to watch, but the pattern we see today is precisely how conquering Islam destroyed Christianity in northern Africa and the Middle East over centuries. Western nations should not admit potential enemies within our gates: Muslim refugees should go to Muslim nations, period.
In fact, America would be a lot safer if Muslim immigration were ended immediately.
]]>60 Million People Fleeing Chaotic Lands, U.N. Says, New York Times, June 18, 2015
UNITED NATIONS — Nearly 60 million people have been driven from their homes by war and persecution, an unprecedented global exodus that has burdened fragile countries with waves of newcomers and littered deserts and seas with the bodies of those who died trying to reach safety.
The new figures, released Thursday by the United Nations refugee agency, paint a staggering picture of a world where new conflicts are erupting and old ones are refusing to subside, driving up the total number of displaced people to a record 59.5 million by the end of 2014, the most recent year tallied.
Half of the displaced are children.
Nearly 14 million people were newly displaced in 2014, according to the annual report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In other words, tens of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes every day and “seek protection elsewhere” last year, the report found.
That included 11 million people who scattered within the borders of their own countries, the highest figure ever recorded in the agency’s 50-year history.
Tens of millions of others fled in previous years and remain stuck, sometimes for decades, unable to go home or find a permanent new one, according to the refugee agency. They include the more than 2.5 million displaced in the Darfur region of Sudan, and the 1.5 million Afghans still living in Pakistan.
When refugees flee their own countries, most of them wind up in the world’s less-developed nations, with Turkey, Iran and Pakistan hosting the largest numbers.
One in four refugees now finds shelter in the world’s poorest countries, with Ethiopia and Kenya taking many more refugees than, say, Britain and France.
As the report states, “the global distribution of refugees remains heavily skewed away from wealthier nations and towards the less wealthy.”
Even so, there has been a sharp backlash in European capitals against the waves of people coming across the Mediterranean Sea, including many who are fleeing conflict and repression in countries like Syria and Eritrea.
For now, the European Union has shelved its plans to get approval from the United Nations Security Council to target human smugglers who operate in lawless Libya and to destroy the ships they use to bring migrants across the sea.
Instead, the European Union is scheduled to meet on Monday to discuss whether it will start military operations in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, for which it does not need the Council’s blessings.
European Union leaders are still squabbling with one another over how to split up at least 40,000 asylum seekers across their 28 member states. And they have stepped up search-and-rescue operations after intense public pressure stemming from a sharp increase in the deaths of migrants crossing the Mediterranean this year.
Australia has felt no such compunction. Its prime minister, Tony Abbott, has pledged to turn around migrant boats before they enter Australian territorial waters, including those with minority Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar. His administration faces scrutiny over allegations that it paid smugglers to turn a boat back to Indonesia after it was intercepted on the high seas.
“For an age of unprecedented mass displacement, we need an unprecedented humanitarian response and a renewed global commitment to tolerance and protection for people fleeing conflict and persecution,” António Guterres, the high commissioner for refugees, said in a statement accompanying the annual report.
Amnesty International, in a report issued this week, accused governments and smugglers alike of pursuing “selfish political interests instead of showing basic human compassion.”
The United States offers permanent resettlement to roughly 70,000 refugees each year, though its plans to admit 2,000 Syrian refugees this year have drawn scrutiny from Republican lawmakers who worry that some among them might be terrorists.
The war in Syria is the largest source of displacement. By the end of 2014, 7.6 million Syrians were displaced within the country itself, and nearly another 3.9 million were refugees living outside the war-torn nation.
But Syria is the not the only country where conflict is forcing people to flee. The latest of 15 new conflicts to erupt in the last five years have arisen in Burundi and Yemen.
Older conflicts, like the ones in Somalia and Afghanistan, are nowhere close to a lasting peace, which means that refugees and internally displaced people remain in limbo for years.
The agency said that in 2014, fewer than 127,000 refugees returned home, the lowest number in 31 years.
Those who live in refugee camps are extremely vulnerable to hunger, unemployment and sexual violence, if they make it to one at all.
“We don’t have the capacity and we don’t have the resources to support all the victims of conflict around the world and to provide them with the very minimal level of protection and assistance,” Mr. Guterres told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.
The nearly 60 million displaced people across the globe are, of course, not the only ones who have left their homes because of hardship. The refugee agency’s numbers include only those who say they have fled conflict and persecution, not poverty or lack of economic opportunity.
Often, refugee experts say, life is more complicated than that. People flee their homes for a host of entangled reasons, including hunger, gang violence, or even the havoc climate change wreaks on local economies.
Many migrants who are not strictly fleeing conflict take as many risks in their search for a better life.
Over the weekend came evidence of how dangerous their journey can be. The International Organization for Migration said on Wednesday that it had found the remains of more than two dozen people, mostly West Africans, who apparently got lost in a sandstorm in Niger and then died of heat and thirst near the border with Algeria.
European Union officials, including the bloc’s foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, met with African foreign ministers in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss ways to help countries of the region tackle migration and youth unemployment.
Below, Africans camping in a Tel Aviv park. Some engage in crime to support themselves. African gangs roam beaches, looking for easy pickings.
Israel is a small country, slightly larger than New Jersey, with a population of around 8 million. It faces severe national security threats from hostile Islam states nearby and doesn’t need the aggravation of a growing welfare class within. Most of the Africans are likely just moochers looking for a first-world lifestyle, but the refugee claim is a handy ticket inside for active jihadists.
Israel is making a decision based upon the well being and safety of its own people, rather than the United Nations idea of the first world being a flophouse for the billions of the planet’s backward poor. Other first-world governments would be wise to follow Israel’s example.
]]>Israel offers choice to African immigrants: Plane ticket or prison, UPI, May 14, 2015
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 14 (UPI) — The Israeli government appears to be serious about sending perhaps more than 50,000 African refugees out of the country.
The immigrants have largely come from Sudan and Eritrea over the last 10 years, but the Israeli government is now taking action to ship them out, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Israeli officials will soon send letters to the immigrants offering a choice: $3,500 plus a one-way ticket to another destination, or stay and live behind bars. The immigrants have 30 days to make up their mind.
Some critics have accused Israel of hypocrisy, saying a nation that was founded by refugees fleeing war and poverty should be more gracious to others in the same predicament.
A mass exodus of refugees from various nations has marked recent times. On Wednesday, the Malaysian government announced it would no longer take refugees from Myanmar, who are crowding rickety boats to get there. Indonesia has also made such a declaration.
On Monday, the European Union started a push to gain U.N. authorization for military force in the Mediterranean Sea to crack down on immigrant-smuggling boats.
Fear among refugees is also rising. Many were shocked last month by a new video purportedly showing three Eritreans being executed by Islamic State terrorists in Libya. The three Eritreans were captured after they left Israel, the Post report said.
“We saw the video, but we thought maybe it wasn’t true, maybe it was just a hoax,” Eritrean refugee Aman Beyene, who lives in an Israeli detention camp, said. “Then we spoke to an Eritrean boy who had witnessed the killings, and we knew it was true.”
Israeli leaders say their tough approach might actually save refugee lives in the end, as they may not even attempt to make the trip — during which immigrants often succumb to illness or physical injury.
Immigrants from Africa started to enter Israel a decade ago, and government officials ultimately built a wall to stem the flow across their borders.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2012 called the immigrants “a threat to the social fabric of our society, our national security, our national identity … our existence as a Jewish and democratic state.” A member of Parliament called them “a cancer in our body.”
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Below, “unaccompanied” toddlers travel with their parents to enter America illegally and get lots of free stuff.
This refugee change is an indication that the administration may be moving toward a European model of immigration where third-world poor people are all victims of poverty and therefore deserve to share the wealth of the first world in globalized socialism.
In that case, there are billions of potential Democrats in the third world who can be admitted to create a permanent liberal society. (See my Vdare.com article, Obama Regime Plans European-Style Asylum Camps throughout the US.)
]]>Refugee plan set up for Central American minors, Associated Press, September 30, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is initiating a program to give refugee status to some young people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador in response to the influx of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Under the program, immigrants from those countries who are lawfully in the United States will be able to request that child relatives still in those three countries be resettled in the United States as refugees. The program would establish in-country processing to screen the young people to determine if they qualify to join relatives in the U.S.
In a memorandum to the State Department Tuesday, President Barack Obama allocated 4,000 slots for refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean for next year. The number is a fraction of the number of children who have already crossed the border into the United States and are awaiting deportation proceedings.
The program would not provide a path for minors to join relatives illegally in the United States, and would not apply to minors who have entered the country illegally.
Instead, it aims to set up an orderly alternative for dealing with young people who otherwise might embark on a dangerous journey to join their families in the United States.
The program is not likely to stop other minors or migrant families from seeking to cross the border.
Last month, Border Patrol agents apprehended 3,129 young people, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Since the start of the budget year in October, more than 66,000 unaccompanied children have apprehended crossing the border illegally, nearly double the number from the 2013 budget year.
That number has been declining but remains a worry for the administration as Obama considers ways to remove the threat of deportation and grant work permits potentially to several million immigrants already illegally in the U.S.
Under the plan, the U.S. would process refugee requests for youths in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Similar in-country screening programs were set up in East Asia after the Vietnam War and in Haiti in the 1990s.
The plan was included in a White House memo to the State Department setting a total 2015 allocation of 70,000 refugees from Africa, East Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Near East and South Asia. In addition to specifying El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, the memorandum also singled out Cuba, Iraq, Eurasia and the Baltics as locations where the United States could screen individuals for potential refugee status.
The United Nations has pushed the U.S. to treat children arriving at the southern border from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador as refugees displaced by armed conflict. Growing control by drug traffickers and street gangs has made the three-country region one of the most violent regions in the world in recent years.
Apparently, the reduction of standards was done to enable more Syrians to enter the US (something that has [...]]]>
The current administration apparently believes that welcoming Muslim refugees is more important than national security. Otherwise it wouldn’t have unilaterally loosened the rules by which persons having terrorist ties are kept out. Now they can get in.
Apparently, the reduction of standards was done to enable more Syrians to enter the US (something that has been in the pipeline for a while):
U.S. eases rules to admit more Syrian refugees, after 31 last year, Reuters, February 5, 2014
President Barack Obama’s administration announced on Wednesday that it had eased some immigration rules to allow more of the millions of Syrians forced from their homes during the country’s three-year civil war to come to the United States.
There are literally millions of Syrian refugees who have been displaced by the jihad- and drug-fueled civil war in their country.
Their suffering is regrettable, but importing more thousands more unfriendlies into America is not the answer. Why don’t majority Muslim nations take them — why is the West supposed to admit likely enemies?
Anyway, Washington has a poor record in weeding out the bad guys let in on “humanitarian” grounds, such as the Iraqis Waad Ramadan Alwan and Monahad Shareef Hammadi, now serving lengthy prison terms for terrorism.
Michael Cutler, a retired INS Senior Special Agent, appearing of Fox News, mentioned Ramzi Yousef who set off the 1993 bomb at the World Trade Center and Mir Amal Kansi who killed two CIA employees when he shot up CIA headquarters as jihadist beneficiaries of inadequate screening:
CIS’s Jessica Vaughan pointed out that the executive order removes the burden of proof from the applicant, even though the political asylum program has a 70 percent fraud rate already. One example discussed was the Tsarnaev family who received asylum without a background check, the two sons of whom bombed the Boston Marathon, killing three:
Note to White House: the country needs tighter standards on who is admitted into America, not a loosening during this dangerous time. National security must be the top concern of government, not generosity toward sketchy foreigners.
]]>Administration eases restrictions on asylum seekers with loose terror ties, Fox News, February 6, 2014
The Obama administration has unilaterally eased restrictions on asylum seekers with loose or incidental ties to terror and insurgent groups, in a move one senator called “deeply alarming.”
The change, approved by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry, was announced Wednesday in the Federal Register. It would allow some individuals who provided “limited material support” to terror groups to be considered for entry into the U.S.
Supporters of the change, including Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., argued that the current ban on anyone who has ever aided terrorists has unfairly blocked thousands of refugees.
“The existing interpretation was so broad as to be unworkable,” Leahy said in a statement. “It resulted in deserving refugees and asylees being barred from the United States for actions so tangential and minimal that no rational person would consider them supporters of terrorist activities.”
But critics say despite the good intentions, the change raises security concerns, particularly after a report published Thursday on asylum fraud.
“In light of these and other facts, it is thus deeply alarming that the Obama administration would move unilaterally to relax admissions standards for asylum seekers and potentially numerous other applicants for admission who have possible connections to insurgent or terrorist groups,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said in a statement on Thursday. “We need to tighten security standards for asylum, not relax them even further.”
Sessions also complained that the administration was, on its own, altering the Immigration and Nationality Act. “What is the point of Congress passing a law if the administration abuses its ‘discretion’ to say that law simply no longer applies?” he said.
The change would apply to people the U.S. government does not consider a threat but could nevertheless be tied to terror groups, and therefore barred from entry. A Department of Homeland Security official said these individuals have been “adversely affected by the broad terrorism bars of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).”
The official offered several examples of how the change might help otherwise innocent refugees — including a restaurant owner who served food to an opposition group; a farmer who paid a toll to such a group in order to cross a bridge or sell his food; or a Syrian refugee who paid an opposition group to get out of the country.
“These exemptions cover discrete kinds of limited material support that have adversely affected refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants and other travelers: material support to non-designated terrorist organizations that was insignificant in amount, provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, or humanitarian interactions, or provided under significant pressure,” the official said.
The official said the change would let the administration apply the exemptions on a “case-by-case basis” after a review that already includes rigorous security screening. “Our screening procedures check applicants’ names and fingerprints against a broad array of records of individuals known to be security threats, including the terrorist watch list, and those of law enforcement concern,” the official said.
Though the change would apply to those who helped non-designated terror groups, Sessions noted that Al Qaeda, for example, was not officially designated as a foreign terror organization until 1999.
Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, claimed the change was another effort to maximize the number of people being allowed into the country.
“This administration no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt in making these kinds of rule changes,” he said. “The consequences are potentially dire for … public safety.”
The Washington Times also reported Thursday that a 2009 fraud assessment found at least 70 percent of asylum applications had signs of fraud.