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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Hard Data on Refugee Terrorists

Do you know how many people convicted as terrorists in America or implicated as terrorists in the last 18 months but not yet tried came to America as refugees?  In other words, since 9-11, how many terrorists did the government arrest who were admitted to the USA based on their claims of being "refugees"?

Think about it.  We know that there is a major debate about admitting those who say that they are refugees from fighting in Syria.  President Obama has been admitting tens of thousands.  Hillary Clinton wants to admit five times more each year than Obama has admitted in total so far.  Donald Trump says that it makes no sense to admit refugees if we cannot check them out to make sure that they are not terrorists.  Obama and Clinton call Trump a racist and an Islamophobe because of this position.  Trump says that it only took one terrorist to kill 50 people in Orlando and he would not put Americans at risk by admitting those whose background we cannot verify.

So I ask again, how many people admitted as refugees were later arrested as terrorists?  Have you ever heard of any such people?  Have you read news articles about the problem of terrorists sneaking in as refugees?

Here's the answer.  It became public when a Senate Committee made the details of arrests and convictions for terrorism public for the first time.  There have been forty people, that's 40 people, who were admitted as refugees and then arrested for terrorism in the USA.  To be clear, the arrest does not mean that these people were able to carry out an attack; most attacks were stopped by the FBI or the police.  Nevertheless, there were 40 people who got to the point of being arrested for terrorist activities.

This is a staggering number.  If each terrorist had taken out 25 people, we could have had 1000 dead Americans.  The number is truly upsetting because it only includes people who have been arrested.  Remember, there are all sorts of people who are being investigated but who have not yet been arrested.  For example, until a few weeks ago, the Orlando terrorist had not been arrested.  If he had entered the country as a refugee, he wouldn't even make this list.

The number is also frightening because the numbers of refugees have taken such a major increase.  For a long time, the refugees came from Iraq or Afghanistan and they were people that America had gotten to know during the fighting in those countries.  Only fully vetted people were admitted, and we still had at least 40 terrorists slip through security.  Now Obama is letting in thousands of people from Syria about whom we know next to nothing.  These are the very people that ISIS told us would include hidden terrorists loyal to ISIS.

There really is no reasonable way to conclude that it is safe to admit these refugees.  Without a doubt, Obama and Clinton's policy will lead to the death of a great many Americans at the hands of the terrorists.  It may be too late to ever get a clear explanation of this policy from Obama, but Hillary Clinton should be made to explain how she can favor admission for so many refugees about whome we know nothing when we know that so many fully vetted people have turned out to be terrorists.  People's lives are at stake.

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