Fellow Conservative,
When the Trump administration released its travel ban executive order, they said they didn’t give any warning because people from the seven countries would begin pouring in to beat the start date.
For the first 14 days of the Trump administration, roughly 11% of all refugees entering the country came from the seven countries on the executive order: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen.
In the eight days since the Judge improperly halted the executive order, 72% of all refugees now hail from these seven countries. Trump was exactly right. They are pouring in.
More than 1,050 refugees from these terror hotbeds were allowed into the United States with minimal-to-no vetting because a Federal judge in Seattle decided he knew more about foreign policy than the President.
Late last night, a Federal Judge in Virginia became the latest judge to block Trump’s executive order. He called it a “Muslim ban,” even though 87% of the world’s Muslims are unaffected. So even if the White House wins the case in Seattle, they will still be blocked in Virginia.
Meanwhile, Congress is silent. Donald Trump didn’t choose these seven countries. Congress did. They passed the Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2016 and forced the Obama administration to apply stricter vetting to these seven Middle Eastern countries.
Now that Trump is making the vetting even stricter, the GOP establishment has left him out to dry. Mitch McConnell has declared that he is 'not going to get involved' with defending Americans from unvetted refugees. He's letting Obama's policy stay in place!
Radicals from these terror hotspots are streaming into the country with minimal-to-no vetting at all.
The White House is reportedly trying to draft a new executive order that would be solid against leftist attacks. But we don’t have time for this.
In just eight days, there were 402 Syrian refugees who entered the country. There were 155 refugee entries from Somalia.
These are failed states. An American investigator can’t just call up the Syrian or Somalian governments and ask for information to identify refugees. The governments don’t have control of their territory.
In Syria, the Islamic State is verified to have passport printing machines and official government passport blanks. During the Paris attacks a year and a half ago, one of the terrorists had what authorities called a “fake Syrian passport.”
The fact of the matter was that the passport was real. It had all of the official security features. The only thing that was fake was the information printed on it.
Do you want to know who does the majority of the vetting on these refugees? Obama outsourced this vital element of American national security to the United Nations.
Do you know how the UN verifies identities if they cant access the Syrian government databases? They use the “honor system.” They have the refugee tell their story and if it’s believable, they create identity paperwork.
This is utter madness.
What is even more ridiculous, however, is how silent Congress is. They’re just sitting on their hands.
In the past, they voted to create the list of countries on Trump’s executive order. They even voted in 2015 to implement extreme vetting of refugees. Now, they’re refusing to make good on their promises.
Since 2001, there have been 72 refugees and immigrants from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen who were arrested in the United States on terrorism charges. The man who went on a stabbing spree late last year in a Minnesota mall was a radicalized Somali refugee. The same goes for the man who tried to run over students with his car at Ohio State University.
Enough is enough. If Members of Congress won’t follow through with their promises, they must be removed from office!
It really is simple: They promised to shut down Obama’s refugee program. They are now allowing a Federal judge to make it permanent.
For weeks, Leftists have been arguing that Trump’s “mean spirited” travel ban will be enough to drive Arabs to wage jihad against America.
These are the same people who are now celebrating the fact that more than 1,050 of them were just brought into the country with minimal-to-no vetting.
It’s time to force Members of Congress to honor their oaths or pack their bags!
No more,
Joe Otto
Conservative Daily
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