“Was even a minute of thought put into this? A small amount of how the refugee process works and what it means? And whom it helps?” wrote Arizona Republic columnist E. J. Montini, adding that “Having a discussion about refugees and what we are going to do going forward would be useful.”
A boat load of Syrian refugees, mostly young men, arrives in Greece. Realistically, vetting these individuals is impossible. (ctvnnews.ca)
While he loves to criticize Gov. Doug Ducey, Montini should have directed his questions to President Obama and Barbara Strack, chief of the Refugee Affairs Division at Homeland Security, when it was simply announced that we would be welcoming some 10,000 Syrian refugees. Were the governors briefed on the process?
The Obama administration insists that it has a “robust vetting” process, but those in-the-know in Washington know that there is simply no database to vet the history of the refugees. And Hillary Clinton, who, according to her aide, is “often confused,” wants to increase our number of refugees to 65,000.
Montini conveniently forgets that a simple spelling error allowed the movement of the Tsarnaev brothers to avoid FBI surveillance prior to their bombing of the Boston marathon. As has been pointed out many times – terrorists only have to be lucky once.
“We can query our database until the cows come home,” said FBI Director James Comey about the Syrian refugee situation, “but there will be nothing showing up because we have no record of them. It’s a risk.”
These Iraqi refugees living in Kentucky, who were indicted for attempting to buy and ship weapons to Al Qaeda, admitted to having fought our troops before coming to the U.S. (U.S. Marshal’s Serviced photos)
Instead of showing concern for the ISIS warriors among the refugees, Montini chooses to attack the decision of more than half of the nation’s governors as “ugly and biased” while referring to them as “foolish and un-American.”
The president refers to the women, children and orphans while ignoring the terrorist-age men and women among them.
While Montini questions the governor’s leadership, the president’s feckless ISIS-enabling foreign policy gets a pass.
