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    Disclosure: Another 41 Foreign-Born Individuals Snagged On Terror Charges

    Disclosure: Another 41 Foreign-Born Individuals Snagged On Terror Charges

    Obama administration withholds details as more attacks occur


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    BY: Adam Kredo
    January 8, 2016 1:10 pm


    Following the discovery of a terrorist cell in Texas allegedly operated by an Iraqi who entered the United States as a refugee, the Washington Free Beacon has learned of an additional 41 individuals who have been implicated in terrorist plots in the United States since 2014, bringing the total number of terrorists discovered since that time to 113, according to information provided by Congressional sources.

    Since August, however, the Obama administration has stonewalled Congressional efforts to obtain more detailed immigration histories of these individuals, prompting frustration on Capitol Hill and accusation that the administration is covering up these histories to avoid exposing flaws in the U.S. screening process.

    The disclosure of these additional 41 individuals linked to terror operations—many already identified as immigrants, others’ immigration histories shrouded in secrecy—has stoked further concerns about flaws in the U.S. screening process and is likely to prompt further congressional inquiry into Obama administration efforts to withhold details about these suspects, sources said.

    As the number of legal immigrants connected to terrorism continues to grow, the Obama administration has sought to quash congressional inquiries and rally its allies behind an effort to fund efforts to boost the number of immigrants and refugees from the Middle East.

    Many of these immigrants have been caught by authorities planning terrorist attacks on American soil, while others were found to be involved in efforts to provide funding and material to ISIS, according to an internal list of migrant terrorists codified by congressional sources and viewed by the Free Beacon.

    “A growing number of foreign-born terrorists are being identified operating within the United States, and yet the Administration will not provide any information about their immigrant histories,” said one senior congressional source apprised of the issue. “And one can only imagine that for every identified terrorist, there are many more individuals around them who are radicalized, extreme or otherwise detracting from American society in ways beyond the threat of terrorism alone.”

    As congressional calls for increased screening methods go mostly ignored, local authorities are dealing with an uptick in terror-related crimes committed by legal immigrants.

    On Thursday, the Justice Department accused two Iraqi refugees legally in the U.S. of conspiring to provide support to ISIS.

    Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, a 24-year-old Palestinian born Iraqi refugee who had been living in Texas, was charged with aiding ISIS. The man had been granted legal permanent residence in Houston in 2011, though it was later determined that he “swore untruthfully on his formal application when applying to become a naturalized U.S. citizen,” according to the Justice Department.

    Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, also a Palestinian born Iraqi, allegedly “traveled overseas to fight alongside terrorist organizations and lied to U.S. authorities about his activities,” according to the Justice Department

    Al-Jayab entered the U.S. as a refugee in 2012 and later travelled back to Syria, where it is believed that he resumed “fighting with various terrorist organizations,” according to the charges.

    Late Thursday, a Philadelphia police officer was reportedly ambushed by an assailant sporting “Muslim garb and wearing a mask,” according to local reports.

    Additional information viewed by the Free Beacon outlines another 20 previously unknown individuals brought up on similar terrorism-related charges in 2015 alone.

    Those who have been charged were legally residing in the U.S. after entering from countries such as Egypt, Uzbekistan, Albania, Pakistan, and Syria, according to information provided by Congressional sources.

    “The terrorism-related arrests of two more Iraqi refugees on American soil proves once again our screening process is weak and needs to be updated,” Sen. Mark Kirk (R., Ill,) said in a statement Friday.

    With incidents and indictments of this nature continuing to rise, critics of the Obama administration’s immigration policy are expressing concern about a last-minute funding effort in 2015 to fully fund refugee resettlement and visa programs.

    These priorities, which were granted full funding as part of a yearly spending bill approved by Congress last year, will permit around 170,000 new migrants from Muslim-majority countries to enter the United States in 2016, according to the Senate’s immigration subcommittee.

    “The omnibus gave the green light for the administration to continue this failed immigration policy over the objections of the electorate,” the senior Congressional source quoted above said.

    The Senate continues to uncover dozens of cases in which individuals accused of terrorism entered the country legally.
    “Preventing and responding to these acts is an effort encompassing thousands of federal agents and attorneys and billions of dollars: In effect, we are voluntarily admitting individuals at risk for terrorism and then, on the back end, trying to stop them from carrying out their violent designs,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) warned last year as Congress considered the spending bill.

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    VOLUNTARILY-ADMITTED IMMIGRANTS RECENTLY IMPLICATED IN TERRORIST ACTIVITY WITHINTHE UNITED STATES:
    EXPANDED (PARTIAL) LIST
    • A refugee from Uzbekistan was convicted of providing material support and money to a designated foreignterrorist organization. According to the Department of Justice, he also procured bomb-making materials in theinterest of perpetrating aterrorist attack on American soil. (August 2015)

    • An immigrant from Albania, who applied for and received Lawful Permanent Resident status,was sentenced to 16 years in prison for giving over $1,000 to terrorist organizations in Afghanistan, and forattempting to join a radical jihadist insurgent group in Pakistan. (August 2015)

    • An immigrant from Egypt, who subsequently was granted U.S. citizenship, was charged with providing, andconspiring to provide, material support to ISIS, for aiding and abetting a New York college student in receivingterrorist training from ISIS, and conspiring to receive such training. (August 2015)

    • An immigrant from India, who applied for and received Lawful Permanent Resident status by virtue ofhis marriage to an American citizen, was indicted in federal court on charges of conspiring to providethousands of dollars to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in order to assist them in their global jihad,and on one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. (November 2015)

    • A second immigrant from India, who is married to a U.S. citizen, and who is the brother of the individuallisted above, was also indicted on charges of conspiring to provide thousands of dollars to al-Qaeda in theArabian Peninsula (AQAP) in order to assist them in their global jihad, and on one count of conspiracy tocommit bank fraud. (November 2015)

    • An immigrant from Pakistan, who entered the United States on a fiancé visa, and subsequently became aLawful Permanent Resident, along with her husband, killed 14 people at a Christmas party, and wounded twodozen, in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil since September 11, 2001. (December 2015)

    • The son of Pakistani immigrants, along with his Pakistan bride, murdered 14 coworkers, and wounded twodozen, in that same terrorist attack. His Pakistani-born father has since been placed on the no-fly list.

    • An immigrant from Syria, who applied for and received Lawful Permanent Resident status, and thensubsequently applied for and received U.S. citizenship, was charged with smuggling night-vision goggles andrifle scopes from America to a Syrian rebel group that fights alongside and allies itself with an al-Qaeda affiliate.(December 2015)

    • A Somali-American was arrested after encouraging several friends to leave the United States and joinISIS, and giving one individual over $200 for their passport application. (December 2015)

    • An immigrant from Bangladesh, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, tried to incite people totravel to Somalia and conduct violent jihad against the United States. (June 2014)

    • An immigrant from Ghana, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, pledged allegiance to ISIS andplotted a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. (June 2015)

    • An immigrant from Sudan, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, tried to join ISIS and wagejihad on its behalf after having been recruited online. (June 2015)

    • A Bosnian refugee, along with his wife and five others, donated money and supplies, and smuggled arms,to terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq. (February 2015)

    • An immigrant from Yemen, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, along with six other men, wascharged with conspiracy to travel to Syria and to provide material support to ISIS. (April 2015)

    • A Somali immigrant with lawful permanent resident status, along with four other Somali nationals, ischarged with leading an al-Shabaab fundraising conspiracy in the United States, with monthly paymentsdirected to the Somali terrorist organization. (July 2014)

    • A Kazakhstani immigrant with lawful permanent resident status conspired to purchase a machine gun toshoot FBI and other law enforcement agents if they prevented him from traveling to Syria to join ISIS. (February2015)

    • An immigrant from Saudi Arabia, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, swore allegiance to ISISand pledged to explode a propane tank bomb on U.S. soil. (April 2015)

    • A Uzbek man in Brooklyn encouraged other Uzbeki nationals to wage jihad on behalf of ISIS, and raised$1,600 for the terror organization. (April 2015)

    • A Moroccan national who came to the U.S. on a student visa was arrested for plotting to blow up auniversity and a federal court house. (April 2014)

    • Numerous of Minnesota’s Somali-American refugee community have recently been charged with trying tojoin ISIS. TheWashington Times reported that “the effort [to resettle large groups of Somali refugees inMinnesota] is having the unintended consequence of creating an enclave of immigrants with highunemployment that is both stressing the state’s safety net and creating a rich pool of potential recruitingtargets for Islamist terror groups.” (February 2015)

    • An Uzbek refugee living in Idaho was arrested and charged with providing support to a terroristorganization, in the form of teaching terror recruits how to build bombs. (July 2015)

    • An American citizen whose family is from Syria was sentenced for plotting to support ISIS and rob a gunstore to kill members of the American military. (April 2015)An immigrant from Syria, who later applied for andreceived U.S. citizenship, was accused by federal prosecutors of planning to “go to a military base in Texasand kill three or four American soldiers execution style.” (April 2015)

    • A college student who immigrated from Somalia, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship,attempted to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Oregon. (October 2014)

    • An immigrant from Afghanistan, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, and a legal permanentresident from the Philippines, were convicted for “join Al Qaeda and the Taliban in order to kill Americans.”(September 2014)

    • An Iraqi immigrant, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, was arrested for lying to federalagents about pledging allegiance to ISIS and his travels to Syria. (May 2015)

    • An immigrant from Yemen, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, was arrested for trying tojoin ISIS. He was also charged with attempting to illegally buy firearms to try to shoot American militarypersonnel. (September 2014)

    • An immigrant brought here by his family from Kuwait at a young age, and who was later approved for U.S.citizenship, carried out the Islamist attack that recently killed 4 military personnel in Chattanooga. (July 2015)
    http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/upl...OLUNTARILY.pdf

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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    Oh yeah, they're all lining up behind Trump .... now. That's what a Real Leader does! He Leads. And Trump isn't even in office yet. Wait until he is! He'll be straightening out these Congresscritters and do it his first week in Office.
    As hard as this may be to believe ..... not everything evolves around Donald Trump.

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    As hard as this may be to believe ..... not everything evolves around Donald Trump.
    You wish.
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    Obama Admin. Covering Up Immigration Histories of Suspected Terrorists

    BY RICK MORAN JANUARY 9, 2016


    House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, right, joined by Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, about the arrest of two Iraqi-born men who came to the U.S. as refugees and have been indicted on terrorism-related charges by federal authorities who allege one traveled to Syria to fight with terrorists in the civil war and the other provided support to the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Here are 41 more reasons to distrust the administration when they tell us our screening process for refugees will protect us.

    The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that 41 additional foreign-born individuals have been implicated in terrorist activities. That brings the total number of suspected terrorists who have entered the country legally to 113 since 2014.

    But the congressional source who gave the information to WFB said that the Obama administration is dragging its heels on supplying lawmakers with immigration histories of these suspected terrorists. Yesterday, the American Thinker reported on two Iraqi refugees who had been indicted on terror-related charges. But the number of legal immigrants and refugees who passed our vetting procedures only to be discovered later to be terrorists may be much, much higher.

    This calls into question our entire vetting process as the administration works feverishly to bring tens of thousands of more refugees to America.

    Since August, however, the Obama administration has stonewalled Congressional efforts to obtain more detailed immigration histories of these individuals, prompting frustration on Capitol Hill and accusation that the administration is covering up these histories to avoid exposing flaws in the U.S. screening process.

    The disclosure of these additional 41 individuals linked to terror operations—many already identified as immigrants, others’ immigration histories shrouded in secrecy—has stoked further concerns about flaws in the U.S. screening process and is likely to prompt further congressional inquiry into Obama administration efforts to withhold details about these suspects, sources said
    .

    As the number of legal immigrants connected to terrorism continues to grow, the Obama administration has sought to quash congressional inquiries and rally its allies behind an effort to fund efforts to boost the number of immigrants and refugees from the Middle East.

    Many of these immigrants have been caught by authorities planning terrorist attacks on American soil, while others were found to be involved in efforts to provide funding and material to ISIS, according to an internal list of migrant terrorists codified by congressional sources and viewed by the Free Beacon.

    “A growing number of foreign-born terrorists are being identified operating within the United States, and yet the Administration will not provide any information about their immigrant histories,” said one senior congressional source apprised of the issue. “And one can only imagine that for every identified terrorist, there are many more individuals around them who are radicalized, extreme or otherwise detracting from American society in ways beyond the threat of terrorism alone.”


    As congressional calls for increased screening methods go mostly ignored, local authorities are dealing with an uptick in terror-related crimes committed by legal immigrants.

    Republicans share blame for this situation, having voted for a budget bill in December that included full funding for refugee resettlement. What exactly are we buying with these funds?

    With incidents and indictments of this nature continuing to rise, critics of the Obama administration’s immigration policy are expressing concern about a last-minute funding effort in 2015 to fully fund refugee resettlement and visa programs.

    These priorities, which were granted full funding as part of a yearly spending bill approved by Congress last year, will permit around 170,000 new migrants from Muslim-majority countries to enter the United States in 2016, according to the Senate’s immigration subcommittee.

    “The omnibus gave the green light for the administration to continue this failed immigration policy over the objections of the electorate,” the senior Congressional source quoted above said
    .

    The Senate continues to uncover dozens of cases in which individuals accused of terrorism entered the country legally.

    “Preventing and responding to these acts is an effort encompassing thousands of federal agents and attorneys and billions of dollars: In effect, we are voluntarily admitting individuals at risk for terrorism and then, on the back end, trying to stop them from carrying out their violent designs,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) warned last year as Congress considered the spending bill
    .

    Sessions nailed it. This is absolute, incomprehensible madness. The political elites want to use Americans as cannon fodder in the war against "intolerance" and "Islamophobia. We're not going to keep out every single terrorist who wants to come here as a refugee. But there is no doubt we can do a better job of screening. And if we can't improve our vetting procedures, then serious consideration should be given to halting the flow of refugees from countries where terrorism is rampant.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/1/...ted-terrorists
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    As the number of legal immigrants connected to terrorism continues to grow, the Obama administration has sought to quash congressional inquiries and rally its allies behind an effort to fund efforts to boost the number of immigrants and refugees from the Middle East.
    Should we be surprised? O also permits to roam freely in our country & covers for, central american child molesters, murders, drug dealers......oh, sounds like Mr Trump's speech...

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