Nikki Haley welcomes
Muslim refugees
Gitmo-shunning governor's statements called 'the height of
hypocrisy'
Leo
Hohmann
http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/nikki-haley-welcomes-muslim-refugees/
Some are calling it the “height of hypocrisy,” bordering on
demagoguery.
Nikki Haley, South Carolina’s Republican governor, came out
last week and blasted possible White House plans to bring Gitmo prisoners to her state.
The governor called a news conference Thursday and didn’t
mince words.
“We are absolutely drawing a line that we are not going to
allow any terrorist to come into South Carolina,” Haley said. “We are not going
to allow that kind of threat, we are not going to allow that kind of character
to come in.
“My job is to protect the people of this state, and I take
that very personally,” she continued. “I will take that personally the entire
way through, so that the president, the Congress and anyone involved in this
decision understands they are not wanted, they are not needed, and we will not
accept them in South Carolina.”
Yet, at the same time she was drawing a red line against
Gitmo terrorists who would stay locked in a brig off the coast of Charleston,
Haley was opening her arms wide to welcome “refugees” from jihadist strongholds
in the Middle East and Africa.
World Relief, an evangelical aid agency that
gets paid by the federal government to resettle refugees in the U.S. from
places like Somalia and Syria, hatched plans more than a year ago to add
Spartanburg, South Carolina, to the list of more than 190 U.S. cities receiving
foreign refugees.
As WND has reported in a series of more than 35 articles
over the past year, the refugee program has been fraught with problems. Chief
among them has been young men entering as refugees and turning out to be
terrorists. Some, such as the two Iraqis in Bowling Green, Kentucky, or the
Uzbekistan man resettled in Boise, Idaho, harbored ill intent against America
from day one. But others, such as the six Somalis from Minnesota who were
arrested after repeatedly trying to join ISIS, or the two brothers who bombed
the Boston Marathon, were radicalized after they came to the U.S. as young
boys.
According to information supplied recently by Sen. Jeff
Sessions, R-Ala., at least 72 cases have been documented in just the past year
of refugees becoming involved in terrorist activity.
So when World Relief’s plans were finally made public in
March, it set off a wave of grassroots opposition in Spartanburg. Residents
were angry they had not been consulted about the new arrivals and the impact
they will have on local schools, housing and labor markets. Not to mention the
national security risks that almost nobody wanted to talk about.
The resistance movement spreads
Spartanburg’s resistance to the secret planting of refugees
into their community has since spread to St. Cloud, Minnesota, Twin Falls,
Idaho, and Fargo, North Dakota, with uprisings brewing in Ohio and Michigan as well,
WND reported earlier this
month.
Every state except Wyoming has agreed to participate in the
federal government’s refugee resettlement program, which gets its authority
from the Refugee Act of 1980, signed by President Jimmy Carter.
The State Department works in concert with the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio
Guterres to permanently settle refugees in the U.S. The U.N. assigns refugees
to various countries and it is the duty of the host country to screen them for
criminal activity and ties to terrorist organizations.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., whose district includes
Spartanburg, pressured Secretary of State John Kerry for answers to citizens’
questions in the spring, but wasn’t satisfied with the answers he received. If
anyone in Congress should be familiar with the program it should be Gowdy, who
chairs the House subcommittee in charge of overseeing immigration and refugees.
Kerry dispatches top deputy to South Carolina
Kerry sent one of his top lieutenants to Spartanburg earlier
this week to try to quell the uprising.
Assistant Secretary of State Ann Richard arrived Monday for
what was designed to be a private meeting with stakeholders, including the
mayor, police, housing and school officials. Protesters outside the meeting
were allowed in, turning a private meeting semi-public at the last minute, one
protester told WND.
“I wanted a public hearing. Trey Gowdy wanted a public
meeting. World Relief would not hold a public hearing,” the protester said. “So
Ann Richards had to come down here to clean up their mess.”
Haley has come down on the side of the State Department and
the refugees, saying she trusts the vetting process, despite hundreds of
arrests and active investigations involving refugees or children of refugees in
almost every state. She also has chosen to believe the assurances of the State
Department over the warnings of the FBI, which is responsible for conducting
the screening of refugees.
‘Jihadist pipeline’ remains wide open
One of the FBI’s top counter-terrorism experts testified to
Congress in February that the U.S. lacks the capability to vet refugees
from “failed states” like Syria.
The U.S. has no “boots on the ground,” in Syria, like it did
in Iraq, and therefore has no access to reliable law enforcement data, said
Michael Steinbach, deputy director of the FBI’s counter-terrorism unit.
Haley also seems content to ignore the warnings of Rep.
Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee.
McCaul has expressed serious concerns about the Syrian refugees, calling the
program a possible “jihadist pipeline” to the U.S.
McCaul has written two letters to President Obama urging him not to proceed with plans to import
thousands of Syrian refugees over the next year and a half. Of the more than
1,200 Syrians who have already entered the U.S. as refugees, 95 percent have
been Muslim compared to 3.8 percent Christian. Those skewed numbers belie the
situation on the ground in Syria, where more than 350,000 Christians have been
run out of their homes, fleeing the bloodlust of ISIS radicals.
While Haley has thrown out the welcome mat for potentially
thousands of Muslim refugees who will walk the streets of South Carolina
cities, she has condemned in the strongest words any plan to allow Gitmo
prisoners.
The Pentagon is considering the Charleston Naval brig as a
possible destination for the terrorists if Gitmo is ultimately closed down.
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is also being considered, and Kansas’ Republican Gov.
Sam Brownback has similarly sounded off against the idea while
also welcoming Muslim
refugees to his state.
Watch Gov. Nikki Haley’s stern denouncement of possible
federal plans to bring Gitmo prisoners to Charleston, S.C.
South Carolina activists say they wish Haley would be as
willing to go to the mat for citizens' safety when it comes to U.N.-selected
refugees as she is with regard to Gitmo prisoners.
"Gov. Haley made a big deal out of saying no to Gitmo.
It was an angry Haley on the air, every TV station, angry about the possibility
of Gitmo prisoners coming here," said Christina Jeffrey, co-founder of
Spartans for Biblical Immigration who has helped lead the grassroots effort
against the refugee program in Spartanburg.
"Those Gitmo prisoners, they're going to be locked up,
not living next door to anyone, not going to our schools, our stores or
anywhere they can do us any harm; they're going to be locked up," Jeffrey
said. "The refugees are a much bigger threat to the community and she says
she supports that program and trusts the vetting process."
Jeffrey gives Haley credit for supporting a proviso added to
the state budget this year that allows local county councils to reject refugee
funding from flowing into their counties. She said she "remains
hopeful" that Haley will cancel the agreement with World Relief.
Haley's press secretary did not respond to requests for
comment from WND.
49 states receive refugees, but some more than others
South Carolina has historically not been a major destination
for foreign refugees.
Since 2002, the federal government has sent only 1,730
refugees to the state. By contrast, Texas, California, New York, Florida,
Michigan and Minnesota have each received more than 30,000 refugees since 2002.
California has received the most refugees over that period, at 91,050, according
to State Department data, followed by Texas at 70,057. North Carolina has also
received many more refugees than its neighbor to the south, taking in 25,276
since 2002.
So it's unclear why Haley is agreeing to ramp up the number
of refugees coming into her state. Some speculate that she may be angling for a
cabinet post in the next administration and wants to prove her commitment to a
cause that is near and dear to the GOP establishment's heart.
The refugee program sends hundreds of cheap foreign workers
into corporate-owned food processing plants every year. Meatpacking plants in
Willmar, Minnesota, Amarillo, Texas, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and a new plant
being built near Boise, Idaho, all benefit from large refugee infusions into
nearby cities and towns.
Where is Trey Gowdy on refugees?
Gowdy's role in the refugee uprising remains murky.
He has the power to call a congressional hearing on the
program and have it fully audited and investigated but he has settled for
writing letters and holding private meetings with State Department officials.
He asked for a public hearing but never got one.
"Is Trey Gowdy a principled man? Yes. But somehow, this
issue is tougher for him than Benghazi or Hillary," said Jeffrey, the
former historian for the U.S. House of Representatives.
"Why? Because the Club for Growth and the Chamber of
Commerce are on board (with the refugee program). But they are wrong! Culture
matters; security matters. Our lives and the lives of our children
matter."
Also working in favor of the refugee program are a handful
local churches. There are 600 churches in Spartanburg but only three are known
to be directly helping the refugees.
World Relief first made contact with a group of local church
pastors in 2013, and plans were secretly laid to add Spartanburg to the list of
190 U.S. cities taking in refugees. Word did not leak out to the public until
March 2015, shortly before the first refugees were to arrive.
"The questions Trey Gowdy asked of Secretary Kerry in
April still haven't been answered," said Jeffrey. "And he asked for a
moratorium. I brought that up in the meeting with Ann Richard this week. We
need a moratorium. World Relief hasn't told anybody anything. Apparently the
pastors did not consult their congregations and some have not agreed to help.
Few who should have been informed have actually been informed. Our mayor
wasn't; our police chief wasn't. I know this first hand because I asked
them."
Jeffrey said Richards admitted in Monday's meeting that once
a state agrees to participate in the federal refugee program, there is little
to nothing local people can do to stop it.
So where does that leave Spartanburg, which was in line for
60 refugees this year and potentially hundreds more in succeeding years?
"I think World Relief is going to send as many as they
can if they can find them jobs and wait till next year and try to get rid of
the state proviso allowing local councils to veto," Jeffrey said.
"And you saw the response to the Confederate Flag issue earlier this year
(after the Charleston church shooting) so these are not profiles in courage
we're talking about (at the state Capitol)."
According to a consensus of the world's intelligence
agencies, 15 to 25 percent of the 1.5 billion Muslims on planet Earth are
radicalized. If even 1 percent of the approximately 100,000 Muslim immigrants
who enter the U.S. annually are radicalized, that means 1,000 potential
terrorists are entering every year.
At least half of the 70,000 foreign refugees resettled in
the U.S. annually come from Muslim-dominated, shariah-compliant countries such
as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and now
Syria. Even Buddhist Burma, which wants to get rid of its Muslim minority, has
started sending its unwanted Muslims to U.N. refugee camps where they will be
destined for the U.S. and other Western countries.
"For the sake of the rest of the country, we need Trey
Gowdy, chairman of the subcommittee with oversight in this area to hold
hearings on this under-supervised program that has been around since Jimmy
Carter created it," Jeffrey said.
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees
Angelina
Jolie is a goodwill ambassador for the
United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a co-founder for the
Jolie/Pitt Foundation, and was a
director at the
Millennium Promise.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the
Open Society Foundations, a director emeritus for
Refugees International, and was the chairman
for the
Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the
Millennium Promise,
Refugees
International, the
International
Rescue Committee, and
Amnesty
International.
Stewart J.
Paperin is the president, Soros Economic Development Fund for the
Open Society Foundations, and a
director at the
Millennium Promise.
Jimmy
Carter was an honorary co-chairman for the
Millennium Promise, and a volunteer for
Habitat for Humanity International.
Africare
is a partner with the
ONE Campaign.
Michelle
Obama was an advocate for the
ONE
Campaign, and married to
Barack
Obama.
Barack
Obama is married to
Michelle Obama,
was the candidate for the
2008 Barack
Obama presidential campaign, and a parishioner at the
Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Jeremiah A.
Wright Jr. was a member of the
African
American Religious Leadership Committee, and is a senior pastor for the
Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Louis Farrakhan
was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the
Trumpeter Newsmagazine, is organizer
for the
Million Man March, and the acting
head for the
Nation of Islam.
Million Man March
The Million Man March was a gathering en
masse of African-Americans in Washington, D.C. on October 16, 1995.
Called by Louis Farrakhan, it was held on and around the National Mall.
Nation of Islam
Louis Farrakhan
After the death of Elijah
Mohammad in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammad, brought the organization to a
more mainstream Islamic position, which came to be known as the Muslim-American Society. Louis Farrakhan
led a group of supporters who chose to rebuild the Nation of Islam, returning
it to the more extremist positions, including separatism, institutionalized
racism, and anti-Semitism.
M. Farooq
Kathwari was the chair for
Refugees
International, and is a director at the
International Rescue Committee.
Henry A. Kissinger is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), Francis L. Kellogg was
his special assistant, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
Francis L.
Kellogg was
Henry A. Kissinger’s
special assistant, and an executive committee chairman for the
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees.
John S. McCain III
is married to
Cindy Hensley McCain,
and was the candidate for the
2008 John
McCain presidential campaign.
Sam
D. Brownback was a co-chair for the
Catholics
for McCain National Steering Committee, and is the
Kansas state government governor.
Kathleen Sebelius
was a
Kansas state government governor,
and a co-chair for the
Catholic advisory
committee to 2008 Obama campaign.
Jeremiah A.
Wright Jr. was a member of the
African
American Religious Leadership Committee, and is a senior pastor for the
Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Louis Farrakhan
was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the
Trumpeter Newsmagazine, is organizer
for the
Million Man March, and the acting
head for the
Nation of Islam.
