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77% of refugees allowed into U.S. since travel reprieve hail from seven suspect countries
The Washington Times ^ | February 9th, 2017 | By Stephen Dinan

Posted on 02/09/2017 4:56:22 PM PST by Mariner

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To: Stayfree

best solution evah!


61 posted on 02/09/2017 7:24:04 PM PST by magna carta
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To: VanDeKoik
Jesus, the state department still has to frigging run, people.

“Firing” everyone and having no staff is going to do what beside make people feel better?

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.

62 posted on 02/09/2017 7:45:11 PM PST by palmer (turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure)
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To: Mariner; LucyT; Liz

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 administration’s order that was not overturned in Friday’s 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).


63 posted on 02/09/2017 7:53:48 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Mariner; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; Velveeta; Sal; ...
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Dept. of State bringing refugees in at furious rate

77% of refugees allowed into U.S. since travel reprieve hail from seven suspect countries,

64 posted on 02/09/2017 8:16:44 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT
The temporary defeat of Trumps 90 day travel ban
puts us all at risk.
65 posted on 02/09/2017 8:20:44 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt; LucyT

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


66 posted on 02/09/2017 8:25:47 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Truth29

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.


67 posted on 02/09/2017 8:34:01 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Make lemonade.)
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To: VanDeKoik

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.


70 posted on 02/09/2017 8:43:54 PM PST by cookcounty
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To: LucyT; bobsunshine

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


71 posted on 02/09/2017 8:45:44 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Mike Darancette

What else was left in, besides the number limit?


72 posted on 02/09/2017 8:53:26 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: cookcounty

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.


73 posted on 02/09/2017 9:00:27 PM PST by LucyT
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To: VanDeKoik

The State Department has been a swamp since after WWII.


74 posted on 02/10/2017 1:54:29 AM PST by Lumper20 (Muslims, Latinos, Asians etc. Assimilate means learn English plus OUR WAYS!)
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To: Truth29
It is clear that the Left does not intend to allow a conservative President or government to take control before there is a critical mass of Islamists and outright terrorists here to spill as much American blood as necessary to overthrow the existing government.

They are too late. Patriots took back control of this country's government!

75 posted on 02/10/2017 9:00:41 AM PST by houeto
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To: CivilWarBrewing

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?


76 posted on 02/10/2017 9:10:55 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (im)
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To: houeto
"They are too late. Patriots took back control of this country's government!"

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/

77 posted on 02/10/2017 9:39:31 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Truth29

Your words were “ critical mass of Islamists “.


78 posted on 02/10/2017 12:34:35 PM PST by houeto
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To: Stayfree

From 1 until 3.


79 posted on 02/10/2017 1:10:55 PM PST by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: Mariner

Yep—Tillerson took office 10 days ago. Absolutely no excuse for this.


80 posted on 02/10/2017 1:13:26 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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