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An armed Somali refugee gets shot by a sheriff deputy during an active investigation and the family is upset. The best part? The dad who is a refugee is on vacation in Somalia. What are we doing? How can these people be refugees while traveling back to their home country for vacation and business?

Please link me to the Joe F. Refugee Risk Standings. I suspect that he doesn't rank any whites in his Top 25.

Judge Who Ordered Admin to Process 12,000 Refugees Tucks Tail After 9th Circuit Corrects Him...Again By Susie Moore https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/05/15/judge-who-ordered-admin-to-process-12000-refugees-tucks-tail-after-9th-circuit-corrects-him-again-n2189147

#WTH How to think about Syria It's more complicated than many want you to believe Danielle Pletka Syria is a beautiful country, destroyed by decades of exploitation by the Assad regime, and its allies, Russia, Iran, and Iranian-backed Hezbollah. Since the late 2010 uprising against the Assad regime, about half a million Syrians have been murdered. The Assad regime was so important to the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran that rather than simply sacrificing the liability that was Bashar al Assad — son of longtime Syrian tyrant Hafez al Assad — and installing a different leader and aiming for reconciliation, Tehran backed Assad to the end, with hundreds of thousands dead, millions of refugees, and heavy costs to the regime and its proxies. Assad, who now lives under the protection of Vladimir Putin with his stolen billions, is a member of the minority Alawite sect (about 10 percent of Syria), an offshoot of Shiism that Sunni Muslims view as apostasy. The vast majority of Syrians are Sunni, though the country also has a sizable Muslim Kurdish and Druze minority, as well as a shrinking Christian minority and a handful of Jews. https://whatthehellisgoingon.substack.com/p/wth-how-to-think-about-syria

Of course. They aren't 'refugees'.

But what would he know ? Another January to remember Cuba American Thinker, by Sylvia Canto Jr. Cuba became an independent country in 1902. You can divide the island’s history into two periods: the pre-Castro years and the current regime’s period in power since 1959. I was born in the last decade of pre-Castro Cuba. My story so typical of the other kids born in the 1950s. We were the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of immigrants from Spain or elsewhere. Our ancestors came to Cuba because it was a prosperous island, an attractive place for Spaniards seeking a better life, for Jewish refugees from Europe, hardworking Asians, and others. It was a young and vibrant country with hope and a future. In other words, the island of Cuba attracted people rather than driving its citizens away looking for a future. It is really sad to watch Cuba today, from energy blackouts to importing sugar. Let me repeat: importing sugar. As a result, the young escape and look for a better life, preferably in the U.S. The old get stuck behind. As I saw yesterday, Cuba is on track to have the oldest population in Latin America. It is even more painful when you realize that pre-Castro Cuba attracted thousands of immigrants from all over the world To wither is to shrivel, fade, decay, or lose the freshness of youth. Cuba is indeed withering today. So another January to remember the tragedy of Cuba and how much longer it will go on. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/another_january_to_remember_cuba.html

Of course we did. DHS approved Tren de Aragua gang members as refugees by Stephen Dinan Homeland Security greenlighted refugee applications for Venezuelan gang members after immigration officers failed to spot their gang tattoos, The Washington Times has learned. Kevin Grigsby, head of refugee operations at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said “several” members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang were approved and made it to the U.S. border before a different agency spotted the tattoos and blocked them from entering. Experts said tattoos are a common indicator of gang membership and expressed shock that USCIS was missing those red flags https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/23/dhs-approved-tren-de-aragua-gang-members-refugees/

Biden says he thinks about 13 US troops killed in disastrous Afghanistan pullout ‘every day’ in likely final speech to UN by Steven Nelson In what’s likely his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly, President Biden said on Tuesday that he thinks “every day” about the 13 Americans who died in a suicide bombing at Kabul’s airport — as Secretary of State Antony Blinken faces a possible House panel contempt vote later in the day. “Thirteen brave Americans lost their lives, along with hundreds of Afghans in a suicide bomb. I think [of] those lost lives — I think [of] them every day,” said Biden, 81, stumbling over his script. Biden called his August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan “a hard decision, but the right decision” during the lengthy speech, https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/biden-says-he-thinks-every-day-about-13-americans-who-died-in-suicide-bombing-at-kabul-airport-in-likely-final-speech-to-un/ .

For those who won't click the SHOW MORE button They can say *technically* the lady who ate a cat on camera in Ohio wasn’t a Haitian migrant They can say there are *no police reports* of missing pets in Springfield, Ohio They can say the photo of the guy carrying the goose by it’s neck *wasn’t a migrant* and was in *Columbus* They can debunk it all. Go ahead, call us racist bigots! We’re spreading misinformation !!!!! Because none of that even matters. It was never about the damn cat. The truth is: -the US Federal Government flew / bussed in 20,000 Haitians refugees to a small Republican county in Ohio of only 50,000. Now, those migrants make up almost 30% of the Springfield population & are overwhelming their limited resources - Kamala Harris is on camera bragging about importing 100,000 Haitian refugees during her tenure on the Biden administration -the citizens of Springfield are reporting that they feel unsafe and are desperately asking for help. Not via anon accounts, but in real life under their real names in city council meetings. Its all recorded and It’s falling on deaf ears, while the mainstream media calls them racist and denies that there’s a problem Meanwhile in New York City: -20% of Hotel Rooms have been converted to shelters. Not for vets, not for the homeless, not for Americans at all. These are specifically to house undocumented migrants -Not enough is being done to convert these migrants into productive members of society, and in New York after they are evicted from hotel shelters after a few months, they’re out on the streets… with what other option but to turn to crime? -By policy, career shoplifters are NOT prosecuted & not even required to put up bail in NYC if the damage is under $1000. Instead, they are set free to do it again -multiple Key Foods in Brooklyn may shut down because of the shoplifting epidemic -everything is locked up at NYC drugstores from shampoo to razors -This information is coming out primarily from citizen journalists. Why? The establishment media, for the most part, does not give a flying f*ck New Yorkers were dumb enough to vote for this. Many of ones that did have a doorman and live a few floors up. That’s a whole other topic for another day, but TLDR they can tune it out… Blue collar Americans in red counties in the Midwest cannot. They don’t have summer homes in Montauk. They live in single family homes. They’re on the ground exposed, they didn’t ask for this, and they don’t deserve it. I’m sure most of the undocumented migrants are good people. But why the hell are they even here?? Who the ***** is bussing them to the middle of the Midwest? Why can’t we send aid to their countries instead of destroying our own, and depleting our limited resources that are meant for citizens? The establishment media is not asking these questions. They have become nothing but a propaganda arm of a system that hates us, and we’re noticing

Harris 'last person in the room' video goes viral on 3rd anniversary of deadly Afghanistan attack by Brian Flood Many conservatives have marked the third anniversary of the deadly Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 Americans during the Biden administration's Afghanistan withdrawal by unearthing poorly aged comments by Vice President Kamala Harris. Monday marks three years since the Aug. 26, 2021 suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport, which killed 13 American service members and more than 100 Afghans. Islamic State terrorists claimed responsibility for the attack. https://www.foxnews.com/media/harris-last-person-room-video-viral-3rd-anniversary-deadly-afghanistan-attack .

Uh-huh. CNN Could Be Forced to Pay Upwards of $1 Billion from Defamation Suit from Tapper Show The case may not be as well known (yet), but CNN could be facing a defamation liability rivaling or exceeding the $787 million Fox News paid out to Dominion Voting Systems. NewsBusters recently reported on Florida’s First District Court of Appeals affirming that plaintiff Zachary Young could seek punitive damages, in addition to economic and emotional damages, from the Cable News Network in a civil trial after they allegedly defamed him regarding his work in getting people out of Afghanistan. The total could near or exceed $1 billion. For that outcome to be remotely in the cards, Young needed to prove malice and according to the ruling, he’s done exactly that. “Young sufficiently proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough to open the door for him to seek punitive damages,” Judge L. Clayton Roberts wrote in the court’s ruling. The court felt the high bars for actual and expressed malice were met because of internal CNN messages that were extremely vicious toward Young. Correspondent Alex Marquardt, the “primary reporter” expressed in a message to a colleague that he wanted to “nail this Zachary Young m&#%$er” and thought the story would be Young’s “funeral.” On that declaration of wanting to “nail” Young, CNN editor Matthew Philips responded: “gonna hold you to that cowboy!” </snip> The case hinged on CNN’s use of the phrases “black market” and “exploited” to describe Young’s legitimate business helping corporately sponsored Afghans escape the country as it collapsed around them and the Taliban retook control. Young’s clients included Audible and Bloomberg News - one of CNN’s industry peers, and he saved 24 people. Freedman said CNN essentially “branded [Young] a human trafficker” and a “war profiteer” and broadcasted it to millions of households. Jake Tapper, the host whose show the allegedly defamatory story ran on (The Lead), also made a point to note that people seeking escape were given “no guarantee of safety or success.” Yet, at no point could CNN prove that what Young was doing was a scam. In fact, their editors admitted in messages that couldn’t find evidence of it. https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2024/06/24/cnn-could-be-forced-pay-upwards-1-billion-defamation-suit https://1dca.flcourts.gov/content/download/2435811/opinion/Opinion_2023-2237.pdf .

Why Israel Must Take Rafah It’s the last sanctuary for Hamas’s military battalions in Gaza. By The Editorial Board The battle for Rafah has begun in Gaza, and it’s an essential part of Israel’s war of self-defense against Hamas. The terrorist group’s leaders have dragged out negotiations for a cease-fire for months, with no intention of freeing hostages while President Biden shielded their stronghold from attack. Now the masterminds of Oct. 7 are learning that Mr. Biden can’t protect them. “No amount of pressure, no decision by any international forum, will stop Israel from defending itself,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday. “If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone. But we know we are not alone, because countless decent people around the world support our cause.” Early Monday morning Israel ordered the evacuation of eastern Rafah, directing civilians to safety. In the afternoon Israeli tanks advanced. The plan is to evacuate and fight in the city piece by piece, swiftly moving civilians north and west without leaving Hamas free to tie down the people as human shields. Objections are pouring in from the usual suspects. France says displacing Rafah’s civilians is a crime. Would it prefer that Israel fight among them, or simply leave Hamas alone? Unrwa says that it will resist evacuation. The United Nations refugee agency again puts its anti-Israel ideology above the safety of Palestinian civilians. The invasion of Rafah was made necessary on Oct. 7, when Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis. At that moment it became impossible for Israel to allow Hamas to control territory, remain in power and plan the next massacre, as the terrorists pledge. https://www.wsj.com/articles/rafah-battle-israel-hamas-gaza-cc8ba76b?st=ne751fj7tsyg1vb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink .

Good God, who is he kidding ? Top House Intel Democrat defends ‘very strong vetting process’ as Biden administration considers admitting Gazan refugees to US. https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/top-house-intel-dem-defends-very-strong-vetting-process-as-biden-admin-considers-admitting-gazan-refugees-to-us/

Military Experts Warn of Extreme Dangers to American Troops Building Floating Pier off Gaza Coast By Bob Hoge Military experts are sounding the alarm over President Biden’s floating Gaza pier plan, where the administration will construct an offshore pier to be used to get more food and supplies to refugees in the war-torn region. Biden announced the operation during his March 7 State of the Union speech, but it was received with mixed reaction. {snip} Some of the experts brought up past disasters like the deadly terrorist bombings in Beirut in 1983 that killed 241 servicemembers and the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, which left 13 troops dead, as examples of what we face when we post our forces in hard-to-secure locales. “If a bomb went off in that location,” he [Kennedy] said, “the American public will ask, ‘What the hell were they doing there in the first place?’” https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/03/31/military-experts-warn-of-extreme-dangers-to-american-troops-building-floating-pier-off-gaza-coast-n2172149 Well, we need those Michigan votes. .

Look at those poor "refugee children" Illegal Alien from Lebanon Caught at Border Admits He is Hezbollah, Hoped to Make a Bomb. An illegal alien from Lebanon was apprehended illegally crossing the southern border near El Paso, Texas by Border Patrol agents on March 9. Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was asked what he was doing in the United States. He said he was going to New York and hoped to make a bomb. "I'm going to make a bomb." He admitted he is a member of Hezbollah. During a sworn interview, Ebbadi said he trained with Hezbollah for seven years. He said he was an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years. https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/03/18/illegal-alien-from-lebanon-caught-at-border-admits-he-is-hezbollah-hoped-to-make-a-bomb-n3784874 Thanks, Joe Biden. .

When I established an exploratory committee for Senate, I understood the challenge ahead. Running for office requires an extraordinary commitment, not just from the candidate but also from family, friends, volunteers, and donors. A campaign puts them through so much. That’s reason enough not to run for office unless there’s a clear path to victory and a high likelihood of success. After thoroughly evaluating all aspects of a potential campaign, I’m convinced that no candidate would be better positioned to win both the Republican primary and the general election. That’s why, today, I’m making it official: I’m joining the race for United States Senate in Michigan. The past few years away from Congress have given me time to reflect on the experiences that have shaped my life, the principles of liberty that inspire me, and what my tenure in Congress meant to the people of my community. My parents arrived in the United States as teenagers in search of a better future—my father, a Palestinian refugee, and my mother, a Syrian immigrant. They instilled in me a love for America and for the values and principles at the heart of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

Brutal new reporting from @axios in article titled “How Biden Botched the Border”. - Biden exploded w/ rage at his team aboard AF1 on the way to border last year. - Susan Rice called HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra a “B word ass”& “idiot”. - VP Harris’ team made it clear her responsibilities “began and ended” w/ root causes in just the 3 Northern Triangle counties & Mexico, w/ a former Biden admin official saying Harris has been “at best, ineffective”. - Mayorkas disagreed with Biden’s 100 day halt on deportations. - Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall displayed inexperience, asked for a memo explaining the difference between refugees & asylum seekers. - Biden admin has listened to “vocal immigration advocates outside the administration”. - “The White House generally didn't want to talk publicly about immigration or the border for much of Biden's first three years, feeling it would draw attention to a political vulnerability.” - “Publicly, the White House also initially downplayed jumps in illegal border crossings as normal "ebbs and flows" — even as some internally pushed to acknowledge that the problem was significant.” The article highlights a combination of infighting, incompetence, and indifference regarding the administration’s handling of the border over the last 3 years. https://www.axios.com/2024/02/12/how-biden-botched-border

IDF Uncovers Secret Hamas Data Center Directly Beneath UNRWA's Gaza HQ We’ve known that Hamas operates in hospitals and schools in Gaza, despite their heated denials. We've also known about the extensive terror tunnel network under the Strip, where they store weapons, hide hostages, and plan attacks. But a new find by the Israel Defense Forces is even more troubling – Hamas has been operating a sophisticated data center directly beneath the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), complete with an electrical room, industrial battery power banks, and living quarters for Hamas terrorists overseeing the computer operations. This is far from the first time the UNRWA has come under scrutiny: However, the new discovery is sobering because, among other things, the facility was “built precisely under the location where Israel would not consider looking initially, let alone target in an airstrike.” https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/02/10/idf-uncovers-secret-hamas-data-center-directly-beneath-unrwas-gaza-hq-n2169928

REPORT: The Biden Administration Has Spent $20 Billion on ‘Refugee’ Resettlement in Just Two Years by Mike LaChance The situation at the southern border has become a multi-level crisis and it turns out that it has been incredibly expensive, too. The Biden administration has spent $20 billion hard-earned American tax dollars on ‘refugee’ resettlement in just the last two years. Of course, the vast majority of illegal border crossers are not refugees at all. Democrats sure do seem to enjoy spending other people’s money. (Snip) The Biden administration has poured billions of taxpayer dollars into the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) since October 2022, according to a new report from Open the Books. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/report-biden-administration-has-spent-20-billion-refugee/

Report: Jill Biden Hampered Afghanistan Evacuation With Special Requests The disaster that took place in Afghanistan in 2021 no longer dominates the headlines, but the after-effects are still being felt. After the evacuation, which resulted in the murder of 13 American service members and countless Afghans, the Biden administration is still trying to clean up the mess it created. With women and children set to starve in incredible numbers because of the haphazard pull-out, the president is now moving to issue an executive order that will use frozen funds from the Afghan central bank for humanitarian relief. The problem with such an order is obvious. The Taliban is a terrorist organization masquerading as a legitimate government. Any money sent into the country is going to be misused and appropriated for nefarious activities. As to giving compensation to the 9/11 victims’ families, that feels like a rather convenient throw-in as Democrats face electoral doom in November. Regardless, the question of how things got to this point remains important, and a recent report by the U.S. Army puts much of the blame on the decisions that emanated from the Biden administration during that fateful time. As expected, Joe Biden himself has already rejected its findings, but it includes a very interesting mention of Jill Biden. Per the testimony of Navy Admiral Peter Vasely, who was running the operations center at Kabul’s airport during the evacuation, the First Lady and others were making special requests that ultimately ate up “bandwidth” and hampered the mission. https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/02/11/report-jill-biden-hampered-afghanistan-evacuation-with-special-requests-n520677 Well, I know from reading this posts here, I'm not supposed to dispute any military testimony. Right?

House Investigation Into Afghanistan Withdrawal Already Exposing Biden Administration's Incompetence By Jeff Charles FTA: During a hearing earlier this year, the committee heard testimonies describing the withdrawal effort. “This whole thing has been a gutting experience. I never imagined I would witness the kind of gross abandonment, followed by career-preserving silence of senior leaders, military and civilian,” Lt. Col. David Scott Mann (Ret.) said. There are approximately 775,000 Afghan war veterans. According to a survey, 73% of them feel betrayed by the withdrawal and 67% feel humiliated. Those who were there say they still suffer from what they experienced — including mothers carrying dead babies, the Taliban beating people, and people running for their lives. “I think we’re on the front end of a mental health tsunami,” Lt. Col. Mann said. “Calls to the VA hotline have spiked 81% in the first year since the Afghan withdrawal and they keep coming.” House Democrats have attempted to shift blame to the Trump administration for the botched withdrawal. https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/18/house-investigation-into-afghanistan-withdrawal-already-exposing-biden-administrations-incompetence-n2167703

What Arab Nations Are Reportedly Saying to Israel in Private Is Quite Interesting by Matt Vespa It feeds into everything that’s been reported about Israel’s Arab neighbors and why they don’t want Palestinian refugees roaming wild in their country: they bring trouble. The late King Hussein had to declare war on them and successfully drove them out. The problem is the Palestinian Liberation Organization set up shop in Lebanon, where they caused problems for the government while also attacking Israel from the southern part of the country. Israel had to invade in 1982 and remained in Southern Lebanon until 2000. Egypt has closed its border with the Gaza Strip in Rafah due to terrorism concerns. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/12/02/what-arab-nations-are-telling-israel-privately-is-quite-interesting-n2631920

The Unhinged Among Us Victor Davis Hanson | Dec 01, 2023 October 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation. During peace and holiday, invading Hamas, gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated, and mutilated some 1,200 Israelis. The vast majority were unarmed women, children, infants, and the elderly. The cowardly murderers proudly filmed their atrocities and then fled back to Gaza -- to cheers from the Gaza street. Before Israel even retaliated, the mass murder of Jews earned praise from the Middle East, the international hard left, and especially the faculty and students of elite Western campuses. When the Israeli Defense Forces struck back, the killers dispersed to the safety of their multibillion-dollar subterranean cities. The cowardly elite architects of the mass murder fled to Arab sanctuaries in Lebanon and Qatar. From its headquarters burrowed below hospitals, mosques, and schools, Hamas bartered hostages for a reprieve from the IDF and the release of its own convicted terrorists in Israeli jails. Hamas shot any of its own supporters who refused to shield Hamas gunmen. It continued launching rockets at Israeli civilian centers. It serially lied about its casualties, expropriating intended relief food and fuel for its underground tunnel city of killers. Abroad, Hamas supporters also emulated the methods of the pro-Nazi demonstrators in Western cities of the 1930s. Unlike their pro-Israel critics, the pro-Hamas demonstrators in the U.S. and Europe turned violent. They took over and defaced private and public property. They chanted genocidal antisemitic slogans calling for erasure of the nation of Israel. They interrupted shoppers, blocked highways, attacked businesses, and swarmed bridges. They assaulted the police. The majority wore masks to hide their identities in the fashion of antisemitic Klansmen. Why did the doctrinaire left, the youth of the Democratic Party, and the campuses outdo each other in their antisemitic venom toward Israel? For the first time in their lives, many of the ignorant protestors suddenly professed concern about refugees, colonialism, disproportionality, innocent civilians, and the rules of war. But none could explain why the Palestinians who fled Israel in 1947-48 still self-identify as victimized "refugees" when 900,000 Jews ethnically cleansed from Middle-East Arab cities about the same time do not. https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2023/12/01/the-unhinged-among-us-n2631857#google_vignette .

Why is that ? Jordanian King's "Red Line": No Gaza Refugees Here or in Egypt https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/10/17/jordanian-kings-red-line-no-gaza-refugees-here-or-in-egypt-n585404

The plight of innocent civilians in Gaza, suffering in this war caused by their leaders, is genuinely terrible. Pictures of babies killed in airstrikes are heartbreaking. So why aren't Arab nations offering to evacuate refugees? During Syria's civil war, millions of people fled the country and were admitted by Turkey, Germany, and other countries. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion have found haven in Poland, Hungary, and elsewhere. Israel is not preventing any other country from providing safe passage to Gaza civilians. But Hamas — whose top leaders don't even live in Gaza — 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 the images of Palestinian children suffering and dying in the rubble. They don't 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 other countries to rescue the civilians. They warn Palestinians not to leave their homes because they 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 the number of casualties to rise. Just as Hamas is responsible for the innocent bleed spilled in Israel, it is responsible for the innocent blood spilled in Gaza. And any Arab or Muslim nation that decries the siege and airstrikes in Gaza while refusing to open its borders to Palestinians is aiding and abetting Hamas in its war crimes.