Obama Brings 10,000 Syrians to America
June 18, 2013 By
Someone has to blow up the buildings that Americans won’t blow up.
The Department of Homeland Security on Monday issued new regulations that will allow more Syrian refugees to temporarily settle in the United States.The department estimates that about 9,000 people will be eligible to come to America under the 18-month extension to March 2015 of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syrians. Another 2,600 or so Syrians already here will be able to apply to renew their status. The Obama administration first gave TPS designation to Syrian citizens and residents last year, and the status was set to expire on Sept. 30.“The extension of the current Syria TPS designation and re-designation is due to the continued disruption of living conditions in the country that are a result of the extraordinary and temporary conditions that led to the initial TPS designation of Syria in 2012,” the Homeland Security Department said. “The extension is based on ongoing armed conflict in that region and the continued deterioration of country conditions.”
Why extend TPS to a date two years from now when we have no idea whether the Syrian Civil War will last that long? Because TPS is effectively infinite.
Last week, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that TPS had been extended for at least 70,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans “for an additional 18 months, beginning July 6, 2013, and ending Jan. 5, 2015.” Thanks to American generosity, these TPS winners have been here since 1998 — when Hurricane Mitch hit their homeland.That was 15 years ago.Another 250,000 illegal aliens from El Salvador first won TPS golden tickets after an earthquake struck the country … in January 2001. In addition, 60,000 Haitians received TPS after the earthquakes in 2010. Last fall, Napolitano extended their stay until at least 2014. Several hundred Somalis remain in the country with TPS first granted in 1991, along with some 700 Sudanese who first secured TPS benefits in 1997. Last March, the Obama administration extended TPS to an estimated 3,000 Syrian illegal aliens. Guatemala and Pakistan are lobbying for their own TPS designations.
If those 9,000 come. They’re never leaving.
About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.
Bee's Note:
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California has historically taken the largest share, but Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia are also popular destinations.
There will be pushback from Congress as there was in the case of the Iraqi refugees.
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Additionally, we have the problem of trying to keep terrorists out. Vetting won’t be easy.
Full Story at Breitbart
Administration Considering Asylum for Thousands of Syrian Refugees
The LA Times reports that the Obama administration is considering taking in thousands of the 1.6 million displaced Syrian refugees.
California has historically taken the largest share, but Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia are also popular destinations.
There will be pushback from Congress as there was in the case of the Iraqi refugees.
Between 1983 and 2009, the U.S. resettled a total of 76,205 Iraqis. Meanwhile, 70% of total refugees in the U.S. were on food stamps in 2009. Within that number, 95% of Iraqi refugees were food stamp recipients. Additionally, the report shows an unemployment rate of 46% in 2009 among Iraqi refugees. A total of 219 Syrian refugees were resettled in the U.S. between 1983 and 2009.
Additionally, we have the problem of trying to keep terrorists out. Vetting won’t be easy.
Full Story at Breitbart