Well I hadn’t really planned on writing a Week in Review today. I got stuck with my annual January cold this week and am just now starting to feel better. What’s worse, it’s peak season at work, and that means lots of overtime. But not only is it peak season, it’s peak season with about a third of our staff missing, a new processing software to learn, and just six weeks to get everything done before the big government processing deadline. Ugh.
But hey, there’s a lot to write about this week. And with my sorry excuse of a social life, well, I really don’t have much else better to do on a Saturday night. Sooooo…
Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee
President Trump’s executive order suspending the “issuance of visas and other immigration benefits to the nationals of countries of Particular concern” seems to have gotten one or two people just a little bit excited. The “countries of particular concern” of which the executive order speaks are, drum roll please….Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen Sudan and Somalia.
But it wasn’t really the suspension of visa issuance that brought out the Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) en masse, it was the order’s call for a review of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program that really got everyone fired up. In part, the order reads,
The Secretary of State shall suspend the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days. During the 120-day period, the Secretary of State, in conjunction with the Secretary of Homeland Security and in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall review the USRAP application and adjudication process to determine what additional procedures should be to ensure that those approved for refugee admission do not pose a threat to the security and welfare of the United States, and shall implement such additional procedures.
So, let’s see, the Trump administration wants to revise the refugee program in such a way as to ensure that the interests of American people are served first by keeping out jihadis and other ne’er-do-wells, and the SJW crowd finds this appalling.
I would like to ask all you fine folks weeping and wailing for the refugees, just where does the safety of the American people – you know, those deplorables who all called on to foot the bill for the refugees out of their taxes- fall on your scale of concerns?
Obviously, in your mind the inalienable right of refugees to come to the US, blow off their transportation bill – apparently 47% of the loans given for transportation to the US are unpaid, which according to the Refugee Resettlement Watch blog amounted to about $450 million in of 2009 – subsequently go on welfare at an alarming rate – a 2009 government survey reports that 57.7% of refugees are on government medical assistance, 70.2% are on food stamps, 31.6% use public housing, and 38.3% receive cash assistance – and then to go full jihad on unsuspecting Americans – see here for a list of truly appalling crimes committed by refugees against the American people – far outranks the right of ordinary Americans to go about their lives without fear of Allahu Akbar shouting, machete wielding maniacs taking a swing at them in the local shopping mall or university campus.
Those who defend the current refugee policy will be quick to point out that only a small percentage of the refugees brought to the US have committed violent crimes. True enough. But there once was a time not so very long ago when most Americans had never heard the word “jihad,” but now it is common parlance. And if there are reasonable measures the government can take to better screen individuals from nations with high concentrations of Islamic radicals, it strikes this writer as good policy to implement them.
Lux Lucet 