Posted on 09/16/2015 7:54:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Trashed streets. Tent camps. Chaos at railway stations. A toddler’s body washed up on the seashore. These are the scenes replayed over and over by the news media, depicting the worst refugee crisis to hammer Europe in more than half a Century. Among other refugees, some four million Syrians -- nearly a quarter of its population – reportedly have fled the country as a four-year civil war rages; overwhelming surrounding countries, and sending hundreds of thousands streaming toward the heart of Europe. However, it is not so much personal security that is the goal of many, if not most of these immigrants, as it is jobs and the economic freebies offered by that continent’s pervasive social welfare system.
While several European Nanny States, including France and England, succumbed to the tugs at the heartstrings resulting from photos of plaintive children, and precipitously announced they would accept thousands of immigrants, Ground Zero quickly became Germany -- perceived by many as having a virtually unlimited need for workers.
However, even Germany, which initially welcomed thousands of refugees with open arms and group hugs, has now realized the folly of its unrealistic “open border” policy. Chancellor Angela Merkel has moved belatedly to stem the rising immigrant tide – the schönes chaos or “glorious mess” created by her government’s dithering.
Here in America, rather than simply leave Germany, France, Austria and England to deal with the can of worms they opened, President Barack Obama and many members of Congress are wringing their hands and fretting about how to deal with this latest immigration crisis.
Obama last week announced plans to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees to enter the U.S. Even more troubling than this initial immigrant tranche, is the fact that many in the Democrat Party – and even some Republicans in the Congress – are pressuring the President to admit many more Syrian immigrants; perhaps ten times that number.
The basis for this “open door” immigration policy? Bloviating by the Administration that, “the refugee crisis is not just a European problem, it’s a world problem,” which then somehow – magically – creates an “obligation” on the part of the United States to do something.
An influx of immigrants from an area dominated by ISIS is a very real danger to national security; and despite promises from the Administration that it will take all due diligence to screen these immigrants, its track record in handling such intelligence and security matters leaves much to be worried about. Already there are reports suggesting that economic migrants from other countries, seeking to take advantage of better economic conditions and social welfare in Europe, are using fake Syrian passports to avoid being sent back to their own countries.
There is a more fundamental question than simply what security risks are posed by these immigrants, or if they even qualify for “refugee” status at all. What we should be asking is why we have any obligation, responsibility, or reason to take in these immigrants from Syria and elsewhere in the first place; particularly when our own immigration problem at the border with Mexico continues to fester without resolution.
Perhaps Obama harbors guilty feelings about his Administration’s inept handling of the turmoil in Syria and the rise of ISIS; factors which have fueled much of the current instability in the region. Or, perhaps it is simply a bid by a lame duck to salvage a degree of foreign policy relevance in the waning months of his presidency. Whatever the reason, this latest “open door” immigration folly should be slammed shut by the Congress, not encouraged.
One need only flip the calendar back one year to see how ill-prepared we are to deal with immigration problems at our own borders, much less one facing Europe. It was just last year when the Obama Administration authorized planeloads of “undocumented” immigrant families from Mexico and Central America, to be placed into communities across the country, for no sound reason but simply as a humanitarian gesture. The cost of that “policy” – in both dollars and security risks – is still being calculated.
And now, Obama and other Bleeding Hearts in our nation’s Capital want to do the same thing with thousands of immigrants from Syria and other countries torn by sectarian violence and suffering from lack of economic opportunity.
What about the obligation to the American taxpayer, who, as always, will bear the cost for housing, feeding and maintaining these “refugees”? What about the obligation to protect the fundamental values on which our country was built and under which it has prospered, but which have been widely rejected in the regions from which these people come? And at the very least, what about the common-sense notion that we must focus on fixing one immigration crisis at our southern border, before meddling in another one for which there is neither a clear obligation to or benefit for the United States?
The Nazi’s taking over Europe wasn’t America’s problem either. We know how that turned out.
See if these invaders are coming to a neighborhood near you and call your federal hired hands and read them the riot act.
This is child endangerment.....the Muslim dad (and mom) subjected a toddler to horrendous danger....that ended up w/ the helpless child a drowning victim.
Here in civilized America....dads and moms have stood trial for exposing kids to danger locking them in overheated cars.
Syrian Christian refugees already living in Sweden say they were forced out of their asylum house by recent Muslim refugees who demanded they hide their crosses and banned them from using communal areas in the home they shared.
“The Christians dared not stay. The atmosphere became too intimidating. And they got no help,” said a Swedish government migration agency rep responsible for the center they were staying in to Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. “They chose themselves to organize [a] new address and moved away without our participation because they felt a discomfort.”
The Christians, comprised of two families, were seeking asylum after fleeing from the Islamic State in Syria. And the place they were staying at housed around 80 people with many being Syrian Muslims.
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The Obama Administration is directly responsible for the humanitarian crisis facing Syrian Christians. They have been driven from their homes by the Islamic State and other radical Islamist groups because Obama and Hillary Clinton decided to declare war on President Assad of Syria. As a result of this decision, ISIS has taken over large sections of Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, and is threatening the non- Muslim world with relentless terrorist attacks. (Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
(Excerpted--abcnews.go.com) Adding insult to injury.....the Office of Inspector General of the US Department of Defense has opened an investigation to address recent allegations concerning the processing of intelligence information by CENTCOM Intelligence Directorate WRT ISIS.....to downplay the ISIS threat.
Also under scrutiny....deviations from appropriate process, procedures, or internal controls regarding the intelligence analysis; and personal accountability for any misconduct or failure to follow established processes.
....and falsification, distortion, delay, suppression, or improper modification of intelligence information....
Keep in mind....falsifying official documents is the preferred MO to cover-up larger crimes.
Not our problem? The bleeding heart libs and porous borders will assure that it BECOMES our problem.
Not to mention the economic instability it will produce in the EU. That will ALSO become our problem, eventually.
That arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania want at least 100,000 of them come in this country
Europe is committing suicide. We don’t need to join them.
We don’t tell Europe that they have to take some of the millions flooding across our southern border.
“that ended up w/ the helpless child a drowning victim”
Pam Gellar deconstructs that by showing multiple photographs showing the kid having different shoes/clothing in different photos.
The kid probably isn’t even dead. The whole thing was staged for European news media to get some sympathy photos in the newspapers.
This manufactured crisis is not our problem. We should not admit a singly one of them.
The US has a big immigration problem, to ensure we protect our borders and secure our safety we should only allow those which have special skills and education to migrate.
We cannot afford to import large numbers of uneducated and unskilled Syrians into this country. These are the very people that will end up on Welfare and we will be taking care of them for the next 80 years. These are the very people that will bring other uneducated and unskilled family members to join them in the US. I don’t think its inhumane to bring qualified immigrants with skills that are willing to adapt to our culture and learn our language and customs and integrate. Most uneducated individuals will create pockets of their people within the cities and refuse to learn the language and refuse to adapt to our values and laws. We simply can no longer afford to be politically correct. We have to set standards to ensure our long term survival. Our birthrate is 1.6 to the average muslim birthrate of 4.2. If we continue on this projectory we will be out numbered within a few years.
Please I beg everyone to call your congressman and Senator to voice your opinion. We do not want open borders. We just sent them $419 million dollars in Aid. We don’t need to open our border as well. Saudi Arabia particuliarly Dubai should be taking them/ Most coming from Syria are Muslims, Dubai is the richest and fastest growing area, Dubai has 1000s of empty hotel rooms, homes and land to put these people. Dubai has billions of dollars to feed and house them for the next 20 years. Dubai is an Islamic State and most of the Syrians are muslims. They want to go to the Europe because they can spread Islam not because they are seeking aslyum.
I agree we all should contact our congressman and Senators. You are right the only reason they want to go to Europe is to spread Islam.
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