Posted on 09/24/2024 1:06:22 PM PDT by fruser1
Most countries whose citizens can visit the US without a visa are longstanding allies in Europe and Asia. The only other Muslim-majority country in the program is the tiny Southeast Asian nation of Brunei.
Although Qatar’s population is just over 3 million people, only a small percentage of those — about 320,000 — are actually Qataris who would be eligible for the program if they hold valid passports. The vast majority of people who live in Qatar are foreign workers and other expatriates who do not hold Qatari passports.
The program allows citizens of qualifying nations to enter the US for business or tourism without a visa for up to 90 days, although they must still obtain approval through the Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or ESTA, which is done online and doesn’t require an in-person interview as visa applications do.
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They will most likely stay with the Obamas while here.
Yeah, Bydone is a people guy.
The real question is how long a layover in a U.S. airport is required before they can vote. Or can they simply fill out absentee ballots online when they purchase their tickets?
if we are not going to guard the border, what is the point of customs at airports?
Qatar the headquarters of the Arab terrorist murder gangsters
of ALL the possible Arab states to open our borders to, Qatar ranks right in the bottom rung for America’s national security
we truly are witnessing a Quisling regime in WashDC
Gee, what could go wrong? More unchecked muslims entering the US....uh, no. No way, no more and send the ones here, back. Study history, folks, no good can come from this....
wait. what?!
To trick you into thinking they are protecting us.
The capability is there to track the visitors from Qatar once they arrive in the U.S. to visit.
What could possibly go wrong?
Another step closer to the New World Order
Joe and Kamala should be titled the “Destructor Regime That Destroyed the USA”,
RE: Pronounced “Gutter”.
But if not read but only heard that sounds like a place filled with refuse, garbage, filth and trash.
Uh, maybe it’s okay after all. 😉
Prob’ly same as from southern border unfortunately
RE: without a visa....
But prepaid Visa and Master Cards have been given to other “migrants.”
Inside Mayor Adams’ Migrant Debit Card Boondoggle — No-Bid Bank Gets $50 Million, Border Crossers up to $10,000 Each.
By Nicole Gelinas in NY Post. February 19, 2024.
It takes money to make money, as the old saying goes, and, apparently, it also takes money — as much as $53 million — to give money away.
Earlier this month, The Post broke the story that Mayor Adams is giving out pre-paid cash cards to migrants.
Unusually for the mayor, Adams didn’t publicize this story himself, and his administration has for nearly a month failed to correct several public misperceptions about it.
One misperception is that the program allows the city to give out just $50 million to migrants.
No wonder the mayor has been reticent.
This debit-card program — if you read the actual contract — has the potential to become an open-ended, multi-billion-dollar Bermuda Triangle of disappearing, untraceable cash, used for any purpose.
((Article estimates at least $150 million given to the illegals.))
The world cannot keep turning a blind eye to Qatar’s funding of terrorism
From Al Qaeda to Hamas, the country has actively promoted militant causes and shielded their financiers
Jordan Cope
August 20, 2019
A country smaller than Armenia in both land mass and population, Qatar commands a global presence disproportionate to its size. With plans to host the World Cup in summer 2022, Qatar remains at the forefront of the world’s attention. While this spotlight has occasionally shed light on abuses of workers’ rights in the build-up to the World Cup, far too little attention has been heeded to perhaps Qatar’s most looming concern – its role as a sponsor of terrorism.
To this day, Qatar remains one of Hamas’s largest funders and supporters. Qatar has pledged more than $1.1 billion to Hamas since 2012. However, Hamas is an extremist group with a malign influence on the Arab-Israeli conflict and an extremist agenda. Doha has also welcomed high-profile Hamas figures, inviting senior officials such as Khaled Meshaal, the former chief of Hamas’s political wing. Ever since, Meshaal has taken full advantage of his hosts, arranging a Hamas conference at Doha’s Four Seasons hotel and revealing the group’s new charter in the city’s Sheraton hotel. Ultimately, Qatar has encouraged the Iranian-backed group to operate with impunity.
In addition to harbouring Hamas, the Qatari government has sought to amplify the organisation’s voice and mission, as well as that of other terrorist groups. Through its state-owned, state-funded news channel Al Jazeera, the Qatari government has shared streams of Hamas’s conferences and speeches. Al Jazeera has also glorified other terrorist organisations, dedicating airtime, for example, to an interview with a member of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.
Qatar’s support for terrorism is not exclusively expressed through its support for Hamas, a reality that becomes more self-evident when analysing Qatar’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Recognised as a terrorist group by, among others, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Russia, Syria and Saudi Arabia, the Muslim Brotherhood is accredited as the source and inspiration for Hamas and, by some scholars, as the inspiration for Al Qaeda when accounting for Sayyid Qutb’s impact on MB ideology. Qutb was a prominent MB leader who was convicted and hanged for plotting the assassination of former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. An Islamist organisation intent on establishing an ever-expanding caliphate, the Muslim Brotherhood has received more than $1 billion from the Qatari government.
Other benefactors of Qatari funding include Ahrar Al Sham, a Syrian militant group intent on establishing an Islamist state in the country, and Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-sponsored Shia militia bent on advancing the objectives of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In 2017, Qatar paid hundreds of millions of dollars, including $25 million to Kataib Hezbollah and a suspected $50m to the leader of the IRGC, to release 25 Qataris taken hostage during a hunting trip in southern Iraq.
Qatar has proactively shielded US-sanctioned financiers of Al Qaeda, granting them Qatari IDs and thus, a safe haven
While Qatar currently harbours 20 high-ranking members of the Taliban, it also hosts some of Al Qaeda’s chief financiers, among them Khalifa Al Subaiy. A former employee of Qatar’s Central Bank, Al Subaiy financed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, according to US intelligence. In 2008, Al Subaiy was convicted in absentia by Bahrain’s High Criminal Court for financing and recruiting terrorists, a gesture that finally provoked Qatar to imprison him. Despite the banker being on the UN Security Council’s sanctions list, Qatari officials released him after a mere six months, allowing him to resume his funding of terrorism. Between 2011 and 2012, Al Subaiy sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to Al Qaeda leaders; in 2013 and 2014, he also began fundraising for the Taliban. Despite having every reason to suspect Al Subaiy’s conduct, the Qatari government turned a blind eye, allowing him to continue with impunity for years.
Qatar has also proactively shielded US-sanctioned financiers of Al Qaeda, granting them Qatari IDs and, thus, a safe haven. Cue Ashraf Muhammad Yusuf Uthman Abd Al Salam. A Jordanian, Abd Al Salam was sanctioned for dispatching hundreds of thousands of dollars to Al Qaeda’s branches in Iraq and Pakistan, and to the former Al Nusra Front, now Hayat Tahrir Al Sham, in Syria. Similarly, Jordanian Abd al Malik Muhammad Yusuf Uthman Abd Al Salam, also known as Umar Al Qatari, was arrested in Lebanon while bound for Qatar, with thousands of dollars intended for Al Qaeda in his possession. Al Qatari is also thought to have transferred tens of thousands of dollars to a leader of Al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, and to have fundraised and transferred tens of thousands of euros for senior Al Qaeda officials. By granting IDs to some of Al Qaeda’s core financiers, Qatar defends Al Qaeda’s infrastructure from its deepest roots, thereby emphasising its commitment to sponsoring terrorism.
Through its funding of terrorism and its harbouring of terrorists and their financial backers, Qatar has embraced its role as a sponsor of terrorism. While the impending World Cup is bound to impress spectators seeing Qatar for the first time, meaningful discussion regarding the nation’s role in sponsoring terrorism must be brought to the forefront. If football is a serious subject, the prospects of international security must be even more so.
Jordan Cope is a graduate in international relations
This is Hillary and Barrack.
Doubt they’ll stay though. The Per Capita income is higher in Qatar and they get very generous benefits and healthcare at home.
What one would expect of the Harris Biden Admin - Qatar supports killing Jews wherever they are found - current tool is Hamas.
Biden cannot get cozy enough with muslims - just part of the plan to turn the USA into a muslim majority nation.
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