Islamic terrorists—including two al Qaeda affiliates indicted last year in Kentucky—have entered the United States legally through a resettlement program that helps tens of thousands of “the world’s most vulnerable refugees” start a new life in America each year.
Known as the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), it’s a joint venture between the State Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Homeland Security agency that oversees the nation’s lawful immigration. The two agencies are responsible for deciding which refugees are granted USRAP resettlement consideration. USCIS is hands on and conducts individual, in-person interviews with applicants to determine if they meet the refugee criteria.
Most of the refugee referrals are made by the notoriously corrupt United Nations, which has published an extensive handbook on the subject. In a nutshell here is the criteria; a refugee must have a well-founded fear of persecution based on at least one of the following—religion, political opinion, race or nationality. This means there is a continued need for protection and candidates should be granted permanent residence status with access to rights similar to those enjoyed by nationals, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) guide.
In fiscal year 2011 Uncle Sam generously offered 56,424 persecuted foreigners refuge and in fiscal year 2012 the number increased to 58,236, according Barbara Strack, the Refugee Affairs Division Chief at USCIS. This week Strack testified at a congressional hearing, “Terrorist Exploitation of Refugee Programs,” that addressed the serious security vulnerabilities in her division. She told the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “has been working closely with interagency partners to improve, refine, and streamline the security vetting regime for refugee applicants and for other immigration categories.”
Last May two Iraqi nationals who were given refugee status under USRAP were arrested and federally indicted for plotting to send weapons and money to al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) as well as conspiracy to kill U.S. national abroad. The men, Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, lived in Kentucky and have pleaded guilty to the charges, which are outlined in this FBI document. They are scheduled to be sentenced early next year.
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We are so much in harms way ! i don’t see how we are going to get out of this alive ! I have no idea why our leaders are allowing this to happen to us !?!?!?
Just look at our fearless lrader, obummer. HE is allowing it and even incurraging it.
nannhy of course he is. He has one goal to punish the west, in particular the United States. It’s the legacy of his father’s hatred of the “Imperialist countries”. His own books reveal his attitudes, his emotional instability, his agendas.
It’s because our enemy has infiltrated into our government. That’s why our leaders are allowing this. We have the enemy in our government, schools, courts, churches, universities and colleges. Why do you think they slander our Founding Fathers in our schools. It’s the ‘enemy within’ that’s destroying this country. And there’s a lot of complacent, apathetic, ‘stupid’ Americans who don’t seem to care enough to fight this. America has been warned decades ago about this invasion, but it fell on deaf ears.
Right, Christian, but you forgot the MEDIA.
yes, we are beyond the point of no return. At one time there was a standard of morals, a standard of responsibility, and a standard of decency which people in our American society were expected to try to conform to. That gave newcomers immigrants an example to follow. Then came the concept of respecting their culture, accepting their points of view, which in so many instances were what they were fleeing when they came to this country. At one time this was a great country, but we have allowed it to be dragged down into the mud. Open displays of homosexuality, same sex marriage, abortion on a whim., rampant procreation with no regard to the offspring, chronic dependence upon social programs with no effort to accept adult responsibility. After a generation or two of this even those most patroitic to this country have sunk to these same depths of depravity. I could go on and on but it would be falling on deaf ears or ears just like mine which burn with shame at what my country has become.
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So that is Obamas plan to get us out of Iraq/Afghanistan, bring the terrorists here so we don’t have to be over there fighting them. Nice.