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DHS confesses: No databases exist to vet Syrian refugees

Oct 7, 2015 6:35 pm By Robert Spencer

And since the Obama Administration continues in its resolute denial of the motivating and guiding ideology behind the global jihad, there is no possible way that DHS could effectively subject these refugees to “robust screening.” Any attempt by them to do so is foredoomed.

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“DHS Confesses: No Databases Exist To Vet Syrian Refugees,” Investor’s Business Daily, October 6, 2015:

Immigration: As the White House prepares to dump another 10,000 Syrian refugees on U.S. cities, it assures us these mostly Muslim men undergo a “robust screening” process. Not so, admits the agency responsible for such vetting.

Under grilling from GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions, head of the Senate subcommittee on immigration, the Homeland Security official in charge of vetting Syrian and other foreign Muslim refugees confessed that no police or intelligence databases exist to check the backgrounds of incoming refugees against criminal and terrorist records.

“Does Syria have any?” Sessions asked. “The government does not, no sir,” answered Matthew Emrich, associate director for fraud detection and national security at DHS’ U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Sessions further inquired: “You don’t have their criminal records, you don’t have the computer database that you can check?” Confessed Emrich: “In many countries the U.S. accepts refugees from, the country did not have extensive data holdings.”

While a startling admission, it confirms previous reporting. Senior FBI officials recently testified that they have no idea who these people are, and they can’t find out what type of backgrounds they have — criminal, terrorist or otherwise — because there are no vetting opportunities in those war-torn countries.

Syria and Iraq, along with Somalia and Sudan, are failed states where police records aren’t even kept. Agents can’t vet somebody if they don’t have documentation and don’t even have the criminal databases to screen applicants.

So the truth is, we are not vetting these Muslim refugees at all. And as GOP presidential front-runners duly note, it’s a huge gamble to let people from hostile nations enter the U.S. without any meaningful background check. It’s a safer bet just to limit, if not stop, their immigration.

“If I win, they’re going back,” Donald Trump vowed. “They could be ISIS. This (mass Syrian immigration) could be one of the great tactical ploys of all time.”

Ben Carson, for his part, said that he would bar refugees from Syria because they are “infiltrated” with terrorists seeking to harm America. “To bring into this country groups infiltrated with jihadists makes no sense,” Carson asserted. “Why would you do something like that?”

The Obama regime claims to have no evidence of terrorist or even extremist infiltration. But Sessions made public a list of 72 recent Muslim immigrants arrested just over the past year who were charged with terrorist activity.

The list doesn’t include the Boston Marathon bombers, who emigrated from Chechnya as asylum seekers. Or the several dozen suspected terrorist bomb-makers brought into the U.S. as Iraq war refugees.

They included two al-Qaida in Iraq terrorists mistakenly resettled as refugees in Bowling Green, Ky. Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi were sent to Bowling Green even though they had been detained by authorities in Iraq for killing U.S. soldiers.

Alwan had crossed the border into Syria. Still, both passed background checks and were declared “clean.” They were then placed in U.S. public housing and afforded other welfare benefits.

While here, the two refugees plotted to obtain Stinger missiles and attack homeland targets. The FBI caught up to them before they could carry out their plans. They are now serving 40 years in federal prison….

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  1. mccode says

    Oct 7, 2015 at 6:37 pm

    A disaster in the making. What complete lunacy.

  2. Joseph says

    Oct 7, 2015 at 7:01 pm

    This is just great, just friggin great. Importing our own death and to top it off we don’t even know who the violent ones are. Yes you read it correctly ALL of them in some way, form or another will contribute to the death of freedom and liberty in America.

    • DA N CELLI says

      Oct 8, 2015 at 3:44 pm

      How stupid can Europe and the U.S. Be? Do people know that the French these day’s don’t rule ALL of France anymore? Why are THEY going out of their way to go to Europe & US instead of neighboring country’s in Africa that are more related to their culture? We know why but our leader’s don’t or won’t. Evil coming to our shores.

    • Shane says

      Oct 8, 2015 at 4:49 pm

      I have seen some videos about these “refugees” and most of them are Muslim men who believe that infidels are fair game for rape and robbery. Most of them will not be jihadists, but they will never be loyal to the USA and assimilate into our Western society. Every Muslim immigrant is a jihadist of a potential jihadist.

  3. Angemon says

    Oct 7, 2015 at 7:16 pm

    The Obama regime claims to have no evidence of terrorist or even extremist infiltration. But Sessions made public a list of 72 recent Muslim immigrants arrested just over the past year who were charged with terrorist activity.

    To which Obama replied “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world – including in my own country. The idea that there are terrorists among these poor victims of an unjust war, simple followers of religion with a proud tradition of tolerances and to which civilization has a great debt to, is as ridiculous and false as my birth certificate. True, I mean true. No wait, I mean…”. And that’s when he was tasered by the SWAT team always on stand-by behind the curtains, making sure he doesn’t stray from reading the teleprompter.

    • somehistory says

      Oct 7, 2015 at 10:07 pm

      Hi and a hearty…laugh. That’s funny and like much humor, way too close to the truth.

    • Shane says

      Oct 8, 2015 at 4:50 pm

      Which country was Obama talking about? Kenya, Indonesia, or the USA because Muslims have done little to shape the USA except for the war with the Barbary pirates!

  4. StarWish246 says

    Oct 7, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    Is this another example of countries involved emptying out their prisons, jails, and mental hospitals?

  5. somehistory says

    Oct 7, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    All of these men being allowed in are extreme in their choice of *religion.*
    If they are moslem…if they really follow the commands of the evil, unholy book, if they will attend mosques for war briefing, if they will bend their bodies and souls to satan five times a day and they have no desire to tolerate the culture and religious beliefs of this country….then they are a danger.

    islam is an evil beast. One cannot worship the beast without some of the beastliness being absorbed.
    These people will pose a danger to everyone here. The greater the number that come in, the greater the danger.
    Trump told FOX Bret B. that it will be *bigger than the Trojan Horse.*

    If someone wants to buy a house, there are greater checks on that person than are being put on these guys who learn the art of war from the age of toddlers.

  6. Tom W Harris says

    Oct 7, 2015 at 11:07 pm

    Just an oversight – one that will be promptly rectified, haw haw haw.

  7. voegelinian says

    Oct 8, 2015 at 12:34 am

    “DHS confesses: No databases exist to vet Syrian refugees”

    I’ve devised a sophisticated binary algorithm to vet Syrian refugees:

    1 = non-Muslim = let them in

    0 = Muslim = send them back

    • Creole Gumbo says

      Oct 8, 2015 at 6:05 am

      And how do you tell a Muslim from a Non-Muslim?
      How long do they have to be Non-Muslims? A day? A year?
      Do you require conversion papers?

      We should not accept any of these people. They are not refugees?

    • Angemon says

      Oct 8, 2015 at 6:35 am

      How do you suggest we distinguish muslims from non-muslims?

  8. Westman says

    Oct 8, 2015 at 1:06 am

    Of course, the lack of records means Europe also does not know who it’s getting with the migrants. We’ll be able to see any bad results from this on an expanded scale from what we’ll see in the US.

  9. BlueRaven says

    Oct 8, 2015 at 3:33 am

    No database exist means Obama will not allow such database to exist. I will be so glad when these clowns are out of the WH.

  10. Jeremiah says

    Oct 8, 2015 at 4:47 am

    Do they have a database of those who comment on this website?

  11. Jay Boo says

    Oct 8, 2015 at 12:55 pm

    The German government has a complete database but, unfortunately they have washed out the incriminating details with a special software program borrowed from Volkswagen.

  12. Sharp in LA says

    Oct 8, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    Of course they’ve been vetted. They (the western powers, Israel) create a real refugee crisis and then export their well trained ISIS – oops I mean “moderate rebels” into the western nations of the world under the refugee moniker. This is the plan to destabilize.

    Pure evil operating right here.

  13. Jim Horn says

    Oct 9, 2015 at 12:42 am

    Use the FEMA camps and keep them there for the 20+ years it will take to vet them. If the don’t like the camps.l send them home. With the russians at work, Syria will be at peace within months.

  14. Michael musso says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 6:12 am

    How many deaths of innocent people,how many acts of unspeakable evil,will we the people tolerate before we demand that our Muslim president be impeached; and our borders be fully and completely patrolled and checked.

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