Posted on 01/16/2025 6:06:36 AM PST by george76
Biden previously increased the refugee cap from 18,000 to 125,000..
The Biden administration gave almost 7,000 exemptions to mostly refugees and foreign nationals who would otherwise be ineligible for admission into the US due to terrorism-related entry restrictions, according to a new report.
Fox News obtained a draft of the agency’s FY 2024 report to Congress on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary’s application of his power to exempt foreign nationals from terrorism-related inadmissibility grounds (TRIG) that revealed there were 6,848 TRIG exemptions in FY 2024, 6,653 of which were for refugees.
The report doesn’t break down the number by country but the Biden previously increased the refugee cap from 18,000 set in the last year of the Trump administration to 125,000.
According to DHS reports, the number is much higher than the 2,085 in FY 2023. That year was higher than the 603 waivers distributed in FY 2022, 191 in FY 2021, and 361 in FY 2020.
Foreign nationals can be deemed inadmissible from entry into the US and for immigration benefits if they have associated with, supported, or worked with terrorist organizations, but the DHS secretary can exempt certain foreign nationals if they provided support under duress, provided medical care, or meet other standards for exemptions.
In 2022, Afghan evacuees who fled as the Taliban took control of the country in 2021 were exempted by DHS who worked as civil servants or individuals who provided "insignificant or certain limited material support" to a designated terror group. DHS included teachers, doctors, and engineers, as well as those who used their occupation to mitigate Taliban repression. That exemption came amid a mass evacuation effort of nationals from Afghanistan as the Taliban were taking over the country in 2021.
In FY24, only 29 waivers were provided for Afghan allies who supported US interests in Afghanistan, and 374 were for civil servants but 3,134 were for those who provided certain limited support or insignificant material support to a Tier I or Tier II terror organization. This is despite the report claiming "All applicants considered for exemptions were subject to a thorough and rigorous security vetting process.”
The majority of the remaining 2,946 exemptions were granted by DHS under a 2007 exercise of authority for support given under duress.
Former Trump DHS deputy assistant secretary and White House senior communications adviser Michael Bars told Fox News, "Joe Biden and his administration have viciously targeted parents at school board meetings, pro-life Americans, Catholics, and Trump supporters—designating some as 'domestic terrorists'—instead of catching actual terrorists and keeping them out of the country. In fact, they've been helping potential threats move in, waiving national security safeguards to admit individuals who've provided varying degrees of material support to Islamic terrorist organizations in extraordinary numbers.”
He added, "Islamic terrorism is not 'homegrown,' it's been imported to the U.S. through our broken immigration system and open border. The Biden administration has not only failed its duty to address this rising threat but precipitated it."
evidently the biden controllers are practicing cloward-piven influenced policy until the last instant of the biden administration.
He wants some bearded savage to launch an attack on the USA while Trump is president.
the big guy. still doing everything in his power to DESTROY these United States of America and really pissed we didn’t give him a chance to finish the job. just bitter old man giving us the finger just like McCain did.
Arrest Mayorkas. Treason trial.
We have to import them so we can fight them here instead of over there. It proved to be very costly in time and treasure. Besides, there just aren’t enough Americans dying over there. We can change that. FJB
“”3,134 were for those who provided certain limited support or insignificant material support to a Tier I or Tier II terror organization.””
Do we need any further proof that everyone in DC is absolutely NUTS! Terror organizations are NOW labeled in certain categories? They don’t see TERROR as TERROR but select what kind of terror it is? These people need to be locked up...This is INSANE!
Treason!
Yes. And the left will suddenly become offended by the crime and chaos and will blame all of it on President Trump.
Correct.
Total Destruction of the USA is the aim of Cloward Piven.
Those who betray the nation MUST be tried, convicted and punished. Before it cooks off as a civil war against the invaders brought in by the Globalists, the Hard Left and the Islamists.
the president may not be held responsible for his treasonous acts but those behind him can be, we need to look behind the curtain and look to prosecute
That alone should be a crime for endangering, knowingly endangering American lives
“the president may not be held responsible for his treasonous acts”
He sure can. It’s called impeachment, and specifically excluded from the pardon power.
If Biden isn’t a traitor, the word has lost all meaning.
Get away drivers for back robberies are held accountable even though they personally didn’t rob the bank. Enablers should be held accountable too!
How much is Biden being paid for each exemption?
They import terrorists and criminals, then they treat us all as suspects.
They want the crime to be so bad that we beg for an authoritarian state to protect us and to take away our remaining freedoms.
Biden brings into the US 7,000 known muslim terrorists - now they will have to be hunted down and hopefully shot on the spot.
BTTT
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