"U.S. intelligence officials believe individuals linked to terror groups in Syria have tried to enter the United States as refugees, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said in a national security address today.
McCaul’s comments were sourced to an unclassified letter from the National Counterterrorism Center he received earlier this week, which said the center has identified “individuals with ties to terrorist groups in Syria attempting to gain entry into the U.S. through the U.S. refugee program.”
Federal officials have previously indicated that terrorist groups have wanted to exploit the refugee program into the United States." abc news
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Hmmm. This would indicate that the NCTC believes IS or other jihadi groups have deliberately attempted to place people in the refugee stream in order to infiltrate them into the US.
Canada will start receiving essentially unvetted Syrian refugees on the 12th of December. As I have written before it will be impossible to keep these people in Canada if a few of them want to enter the US illegally on a mission. The notion that confining the Syrian immigrants to Canada to family men is somehow a defense against jihadi infiltration is ludicrous. Siyed Rizwan Farooq was a family man.
BTW the southern border is where detected attempts at jihadi infiltration have apparently occurred thus far.
It would seem that it is not easy to move jihadis to the US. Border controls are tight. Fiancée visas, refugee flows, these are not routes that would be used if it were easy to move doubtful people in.
IMO if they are trying something like refugee flows and fiancée visas, the alternative must be a walk in the desert or forest, or perhaps the visa waiver program. pl
Apologies for OT. Front-runner Trump is apparently planning to meet Netanyahu after Christmas. He has some thoughts to gather data on the Israel/Palestine deal problem there. However, if you feel called to aid in clear understanding and send an independent briefing analysis of the Israel situation, his skyscraper home address is:
Mr. Donald Trump
The Trump Organization
725 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10022
...give the rare purple mandrill of peace a chance this Christmas.
Posted by: Imagine | 08 December 2015 at 11:52 AM