Posted on 02/09/2017 4:56:22 PM PST by Mariner
The State Department has more than doubled the rate of refugees from Iraq, Syria and other suspect countries in the week since a federal judges reprieve, in what analysts said appears to be a push to admit as many people as possible before another court puts the program back on ice.
A staggering 77 percent of the 1,100 refugees let in since Judge James L. Robarts Feb. 3 order have been from the seven suspect countries. Nearly a third are from Syria alone a country that Mr. Trump has ordered be banned altogether from the refugee program. Another 21 percent are from Iraq. By contrast, in the two weeks before Judge Robarts order, just 9 percent of refugees were from Syria and 6 percent were from Iraq.
Theres no doubt in my mind they would be doing whatever they could to get people in before something changes because, from their perspective, their motivation is to resettle these folks. It would not be the first time that State Department officials have prioritized facilitating someones entry to the United States over security concerns, said Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
Mr. Trump issued an executive order Jan. 27 putting in place the early stages of his extreme vetting policy, including an immediate 90-day pause on admitting visitors from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen all countries where the government says it cant be sure of its vetting procedures.
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best solution evah!
It's Friday tomorrow. Go down to Rosslyn and look, there's practically nobody there. They work 4 day weeks. Oh, except the "work-from-home" days. They work 2-3 days a week.
Dept. of State bringing refugees in at furious rate
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/dept-of-state-bringing-refugees-in-at-furious-rate/
a provision of the Trump administrations order that was not overturned in Fridays court ruling a provision capping total refugee admissions at 50,000 for the 2017 fiscal year, which ends October 1.
Since the Judge stalled the ban causing a legal wrangle of epic proportions, the Trump State Department has been rushing refugees in as fast as they can.
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As we said above, not affected by the ban was President Trump resetting the overall resettlement levels at 50,000 for FY17 (too high in our opinion as we said here). As of this morning we are at 33,743.
To stop this rush he could reset the level to say 35,000 (a reasonable level to allow those with tickets to get here, but stop the rush (by the State Dept.) to hand out more taxpayer-funded airline tickets).
By resetting the overall ceiling again, down to 35,000, it would effectively stop refugees/immigrants from these terror hotspot countries. (Very few get in to the US LEGALLY from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan and Somalia through other programs other than the UN/US RAP anyway).
Dept. of State bringing refugees in at furious rate
77% of refugees allowed into U.S. since travel reprieve hail from seven suspect countries,
To note Tom Fitton also mentions that once refugees are in our country, they are on a fast track to citizenship (never go home), and receive many costly benefits and can vote when they are citizens.
Great discussion on Hannity with Jay Sekulow & Tom Fitton (Judicial Watch) Describing the constitutional crisis these Judges have created.
10:00 Minutes
Jay Sekulow & Tom Fitton (Judicial Watch)
Appeals Court Upholds The Suspension Of Pres Trump’s Temporary Travel Ban Hannity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wSLzUTrzOw
One of the things the EO did was reduce the number of refugees that could enter the USA to 50,000 and this has just about been reached. The judges couldn’t touch this part.
Can’t fire people anyway. The Dems have put in place protections so deep that it takes 3 years to fire a civil service employee for anything short of a felony.
Thanks for the ping!
See bobsunshines post; the 9th circus didn’t block everything in the EO:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3523238/posts?page=52#52
What else was left in, besides the number limit?
Item (3) below (from Wikipedia):
The Holman Rule is a rule in the United States House of Representatives that allows amendments to appropriations legislation that would reduce the salary of or eliminate specific federal employees, or cut a specific program.
The rule was first enacted in 1876 and rescinded in 1983, and was reinstated in January 2017 on a temporary basis.
The 2017 reinstatement of the law was a standing order not incorporated into the main body of the Rules of the House. It allows during the first session of the 115th Congress, any provision or amendment... that retrenches expenditures by
(1) the reduction of amounts of money in the bill;
(2) the reduction of the number and salary of the officers of the United States; or
(3) the reduction of the compensation of any person paid out of the Treasury of the United States.
For instance, one US dollar per year.
The State Department has been a swamp since after WWII.
They are too late. Patriots took back control of this country's government!
BTW, conversations in a room can be overheard simply by ‘listening’ to vibrations registered on windows. Are those windows in the Oval Office secured with sound interference?
Well the current decision of the 9th Circuit and the big increase in refugees since the TRO was issued would argue otherwise: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/9/refugees-entering-us-doubled-rate-ruling-trump-tra/
Your words were “ critical mass of Islamists “.
From 1 until 3.
Yep—Tillerson took office 10 days ago. Absolutely no excuse for this.
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