A few Republican senators are making an important point.
Ten Republican Senators sent a letter to members of the Biden administration this week demanding an explanation for a rule change that will allow some individuals who have materially supported terrorist organizations to immigrate to the U.S.
“We write because the American people deserve an explanation regarding the broad, open-ended nature of this authority for exempting individuals who would otherwise be barred from immigration to the United States for supporting a terrorist organization,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (Tenn.) and his colleagues wrote in the letter addressed to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The point that they make in their letter is that Biden not only provided a waiver for terrorists, but made it as open-ended as possible.
The June 8 determination by the Departments of Homeland Security and State announced that people who have provided “insignificant” or “limited” material support to terrorist organizations in the past will no longer be barred from immigration.
Biden justified this by claiming that it was there for the Afghans, but, as bad as that is, it isn’t limited to them.
For example, in 2019, this authority was applied to visa or other immigration-related applications for an activity or association relating to the Lebanese Forces militias (“2019 Determination”). The 2019 Determination is narrowly tailored and does not apply outside the context of the Lebanese civil war that occurred between 1975 and 1990. It also clearly states that it does not apply to any alien that engaged in terrorist activity or knowingly provided any level of material support to terrorist activities that targeted noncombatants or U.S. interests…
In contrast, your June 8 Determination widely exempts persons who provided “insignificant material support” or “limited material support under circumstances” to a designated terrorist organization. According to a DHS press release, the intent of this determination is to help “vulnerable Afghans.” Yet, the June 8 Determination makes no mention of Afghanistan or Afghan refugees and is not limited to the categories of Afghan individuals described in your press release or persons connected with the war in Afghanistan. Indeed, it is not limited to certain conflicts, terrorist organizations, geographic regions, or time periods at all.
In contrast, on the same day that you issued the June 8 Determination, you issued a separate determination that was specifically limited to individuals who were employed as civil servants in Afghanistan during a specific time frame…
Instead, the June 8 Determination broadly permits the admission of foreign individuals who provided material support to terrorist organizations that the Biden Administration deems insignificant or limited. This could include, for example, current or former members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and IRGC-linked entities, which are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. service members in Iraq and Afghanistan. It could include individuals seeking asylum at the southern border.
Bringing in the IRGC was the focus of a significant pressure campaign that appeared in pro-terror outlets like the Washington Post. But overall there’s every reason to assume that Biden’s people used the Afghans are a pretext to pry open the door to terrorists as widely as possible. The Senate letter demonstrates that there were plenty of options for a narrow framework, instead they made it possible to whitewash and import as many terrorists from around the world as they can. That’s not an accident, it’s the plan.
Fitna says
When someone appears to be making irrational decisions, chances are they were coerced, they’re mentally ill, or someone is paying them to do it.
Probably all 3 in this idiot’s case. He’s selling us out to get rich and has broken his oath to protect US citizens. Under normal circumstances this could be seen as treason, certainly grounds for impeachment. But there’s nothing normal about the West nowadays.
somehistory says
Yes, the plan is to destroy the society that had some measure of protection for its citizens while allowing for quite a bit of freedom to make all kinds of choices about medical care, where to live, what to drive, etc.
the plan is to make all of those things of the past-tense, while making life dangerous, so citizens will cry out to the government to protect them. kind of like the Patriot Act. but, this will be Agenda 30…expanded from Agenda 21.
On a similar note, Montana has now decided that all water that once was under a Treaty for Native Americans is now completely controlled by the government, through *help* from the land management, Indian Affairs, and other agencies.
Now, citizens will have to pay a tax on the water they use. Even on their own property.
Just as this “Determination” was narrowly focused, so was the Indian Treaty about water and “fish” rights. but, just as this “determination” has been conveniently changed by the ‘gov,’ so has the treaty to give control to this out-of-control monster that is called the government.
More “surprises” are on the way. We can all count on it.
somehistory says
OT
I saw this story and thought of another McDonald’s customer complaining about being served…gasp!. bacon. No lawsuit with this one, however. No chicken, either.
“Family left horrified after McDonald’s serves their 7-year-old dishcloth-stuffed chicken wrap”
We should all be prepared for lawsuits from some terrorists who may be served bacon with their cheeseburger. Or chicken wrap.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/family-left-horrified-after-mcdonald-s-serves-their-7-year-old-dishcloth-stuffed-chicken-wrap/ar-AA11dNfx?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=59981ed681be3338526074a
Infidel says
Oh, please! In muslim countries, non-muslims are freely served foods that may be religiously forbidden, and nobody bats an eyelid. It’s the norm in Bangladesh to serve, and even try and force Hindus there to have beef. Here, a mistake is made, and they wanna start a jihad over it!
somehistory says
Yep. This family complained …it was a towel, not even any kind of food….and got some vouchers for free food and that was it. If it had been a mozlum…you can bet c.a.i.rats would be all over it.
gravenimage says
Really–they were *horrified*? I guess they have led pretty sheltered lives. Yes, I would complain, want a fresh sandwich, and perhaps report the incident to the health department. But that’s about it.
somehistory says
It says “horrified,” but evidently they actually took it in stride….no lawsuit, but it was reported to the health department. One has to wonder why the worker put a dish cloth inside the container and closed it, instead of putting the chicken wrap as was ordered.
However, mozlums would not likely let it go so easily, but would press it as “hatred” and discrimination and want heads to roll. I’m thinking with all the newly entered mozlums in country, this is going to happen much more often.
gravenimage says
True.
Ugly Sid says
The Hunter Laptop is not a smoking gun.
The Laptop is a steamer chest loaded with smoking guns. All bearing prints and still warm.
Too bad the DOJ is now a proprietary operation, like a fried chicken franchise. Or maybe closer to an escort service. Does the FBI Academy offer instruction in the operation of the Badger Game? Honey pot management? If we can train new IRS agents to raid homes and shoot taxpayers, why not?
gravenimage says
Biden’s Open Door to Jihad Terrorists
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Putting the nation at increasing risk, both with Muslims flooding in from places like Afghanistan and coming in illegally over the southern border.
Walter Sieruk says
This irresponsible folly and madness, if not outright treason, is somewhat of reminder of , that Biden scheme to settle all those Afghan refugees in the different States in American is a recipe for disaster.
Take England for example, The United Kingdom has already experienced many vicious and malice-filled murderous Muslims terrorists attacks, as those, for example, those different malicious and deadly jihadists attacks in London and that horrendous mass murder jihad homicide bombing in the city of Manchester in which so many innocent young girls died.
Another way to illustrate the folly of foolish and reckless kindness is by the fable of Aesop which of a kind old farmer who saw outside a poor helpless viper that was freezing to death in the winter cold. The compassionate but foolish farmer felt sorry for that creature, so he went outside and put it in his vest pocket to warm it up and therefore save its live. The viper revived in the warmed of vest, felt better then bit the farmer through the vest and the kind but foolish farmer died a slow and painful death from that viper’s bite.
So, it might be in America by Afghan jihadists playing the part of a desperate “refugee” from Afghanistan who claimed that he was just fleeing the Taliban. For no amount of caring and kindness will change the murderous and destructive nature of a violent /jihadist/Muslim because such a man has been infected with an evil and deadly nature because of the evil and deadly religion.
The duty of any genuine President of the United States is to protect the safety, security and lives of the American citizen.
That duty President impostor Joe Biden completely refuses to preform, for by allowing all those unvetted Afghan/Muslims into America is a recipe for disaster.
For some of them might be secret jihadists just waiting and scheming for a specific US city or large town to engage in a murderous and destructive jihad Islamic terror attack in.
Some of the other Afghan refugees might be criminals. In both cases Biden will have the blood of many innocent Americans on his wicked hands.