Posted on 12/01/2016 6:15:05 PM PST by Steelfish
Obama Administration Stiff-Arms Lawmakers Questioning Secret Refugee Deal By Melissa Jacobs Published December 01, 2016. Nearly 2,500 refugees from terrorism hotspots around the world are bound for the U.S. after being rejected by Australia, but not even top lawmakers can get answers about who they are.
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. State Department has classified details on refugees to be resettled in America via a secret deal made with Australia. The bi-lateral agreement, which Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called a “one-off,” involves 2,465 people currently being held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru who will now be transferred onto U.S. soil. Department of Homeland security Secretary Jeh Johnson was mum when lawmakers asked about the refugees. (The Associated Press)
“This is a backroom deal, wheeling and dealing with another country's refugee problem,” Center for Immigration Studies fellow Don Barnett told FoxNews.com. “I don’t believe for a moment it’s a one-time deal. That’s for public consumption.”
The move has also raised a red flag among Congressional oversight members.
In a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry, key lawmakers Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., complained about the lack of transparency.
“This situation is concerning for many reasons,” read the letter, charging that “your departments negotiated an international agreement regarding refugees without consulting or notifying Congress.”
Screeners from the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services are set to leave for the Pacific Island nations next month to begin vetting the refugees.
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There is a reason why so many called the State Department, 7th floor, a "Shadow Government" !!
It is nothing more than an extension of the Klintoon Criminal Cabal that got stopped by the citizenry in the last election.
Another “To Do” for Trump’s list is to find Congress’ huevos.
Build a refugee internment camp for ALL illegals and refugees right next to Obama’s houses. Both in DC and in Hawaii.
Real countries all have strict immigration policies and stick to them.
Try to immigrate to Switzerland, Japan or even Canada.
19 terrorists took out the Twin Towers, almost took out the the Pentagon, and were probably on the way to the WH when Flight 93 crashed into the ground. Almost 3,000 to their 19. With that ratio in mind, 25,000 could kill almost 4,000,000 U. S. citizens
That is easy as hell!! We pay a bounty for people to turn them in! Give me a break!! And we do this with these Mexican kids that need their families!!IN MEXICO— All expenses paid!! Get them out of here!!
It is VERY simple. We pay bounty!! “If you see something say something!!” these bastards stand out like sore thumbs— they are uneducated and speak ZERO ENGLISH!! OUT!
The United States is in a global war on Islamic Terror.
These “refugees” are Islamic militants who are “refugees” because they were Taliban Jihadi defeated by the United States military and they are wanted in Afghanistan and are on the run.
Obama’s giving these Jihadi refugee status is exactly the same as if we lifted hard core Viet Cong insurgents from camps in Laos during the Vietnam War and air lifted them to the United States and set them up in Topeka with full government financial and housing support
They will find an Obama judge! We'll be supporting them forever
Leave them where they are. Teach ‘em to fish, some native skills, ETC and leave the rest of us alone.
*****Needs to be a thread of it’s own.
People are unaware of the background of the refugees.
Maybe. What will not be reversed is an emasculated congress. Without a vigorous congress, there is no republic.
BTTT
Most likely they are an assortment of refugees that had, up until one of them raped a young Nauru girl, been housed on the Pacific Island of Nauru. Many originated from Burma/Myanmar where they aren’t wanted by the Buddhists there for pretty much the same reasons- some of them take seriously the Muslim belief that any woman not belonging to their faith and not obeying shariah law in dress and familial male accompaniment is fair game to be raped.
No kidding.
Send a scented letter and then get back to the ethanol subsidies.
Swamp, all right.
To BEGIN vetting the refugees???
We have been told that proper vetting takes no less than 8 months!!!
Obama needs to be indicted for treason...I hope that happens. Jeh Johnson can go down with Barry-
“THIS WILL BE THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION EVER!!!
A lie from the first moment it was said!!!
Another mess for PR Trump to clean up. Maybe the USA & Australia can split the cost of returning these creeps to their own places of origin.
NOT SURE they are Muslims?
Feed them a PORK dinner & see how many will eat it.
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