42 thoughts on “Mocking Concerns Over Syrian Refugees”

  1. “It makes them wonder if Democrats seriously see no problem here. Do they care at all about national security? Are they really that detached from reality?”

    We don’t wonder. the answers are No, No and Yes.

    ” In general, we should act like this is a legitimate thing to be concerned about and then work from there.”

    Act like? IS he suggesting they put on an act?

    “We should call for tighter screening. Never mind that screening is already pretty tight. We should highlight the fact that we’re accepting a pretty modest number of refugees. In general, we should act like this is a legitimate thing to be concerned about and then work from there.”

    Well we have been told for years our screening is sufficient. What?..now all of a sudden it isn’t?

    Can they guarantee their new lemon-freshened tighter screening?

    Of course not.

    Will Obama make sure the tough screening is actually done?

    Nothing he’s done in the past suggests that he will and he has proven time and again he will ignore any law he doesn’t care about.

    What this author and a number of other Lefties fail to understand is that we simply Do. Not. Trust. Them. To. Do. What. They. Say.

    Love the last line in the article:

    “That way lies electoral disaster.”

    And the truth comes out….. that’s what his prescriptions are about right? Winning elections. Never mind the shooting and disembowling of defenseless people; never mind the stack of 160 bodies r the 200+ blown out of the sky or the nearly killed dozens on the train or the Beirut attack nor Mumbai; never mind the tremendous loss and grief of the families involved…….

    We gotta WIN!

    1. Act like? IS he suggesting they put on an act?

      He thinks Democrats should humor voters who have an irrational fear of refugees. And maybe he’s right — maybe there’s no way to assuage their fears other than to play along and let the passage of time do its work. The passage of a year seems to have done wonders for last year’s hysteria over child migrants bringing Ebola over the southern border, maybe that’s the best we can hope for here. But if so, it’s a sad comment on the American voter’s capacity to put reason ahead of fear.

        1. I declared U.S. fear of refugees to be irrational. The fact that you read “refugees” as “terrorists” says it all.

          1. Generally refugees are women, children and men over fighting age. I’m seeing an amazing amount of young, strapping men of fighting age.

          2. I actually have a fear of these so-called refugees getting on welfare and staying on it for years. But you would like that wouldn’t you? More democrat voters.

            Is this what your fuss is all about? Denying you new recruits into the free stuff society?

      2. “He thinks Democrats should humor voters who have an irrational fear of refugees.”

        You do realize that people are offering different ways to help the refugees right? Not agreeing with Obama doesn’t mean people do not want to help.

        “The passage of a year seems to have done wonders for last year’s hysteria over child migrants bringing Ebola”

        Oh yes and Obama covered himself in glory lying about ebola. The Obama admin said you couldn’t catch it from a sneeze and that we knew everything there was to know about it. But upon further study we now know that ebola stays in the body for much longer than previously claimed.

        And the people who pointed out that yes you could get ebola from a sneeze were mocked as paranoid racists.

      3. Are you doing your part in making sure many live in your neighborhood? When you’ve done so, you may then call us whatever you want.

      4. “He thinks Democrats should humor voters who have an irrational fear of refugees. ”

        Just like a lefty to assume irrationality because they have a different viewpoint. He’s been well trained by Obama. Just like a lot of other people…….

        The blood-besotted floor of Bataclan doesn’t seem to have had much effect on him. I’m sure none of the 300 victims of Paris thought it could happen to them either.
        Ah well…omellettes….eggs.

        And he also thinks they can be “humored” and not notice the condescension. So he has a low opinion of their intelligence and perspicacity.

        Pretty much cancels him out as someone who needs to be listened to.

        “But if so, it’s a sad comment on the American voter’s capacity to put reason ahead of fear.”

        What is sad is that he puts electoral victory over stacks of dead bodies. Evidently the attacks and deaths we have suffered right here in the US by jihadists, since Obama took office, mean nothing to him. Pretty callous.

        He also seems to be unable to accept the fact that it has happened and can happen again. I suppose for people like him, only a Paris-type attack will get him to open his mind.

        But of course by then it’s too late.

        And within minutes I suspect he’ll be blaming the victims.

        1. The blood-besotted floor of Bataclan doesn’t seem to have had much effect on him.

          What effect should it have? Should I notice that most of the attackers were EU citizens, and propose that the U.S. bar entry of EU citizens? Would that make sense?

          2. Yes the fact that he willfully avoids mentioning the (at least) 2 Syrian terrorists who got in is telling isn’t it?

            But Jim has a way of ignoring inconvenient fats…as I will demonstrate at the bottom of this thread.

      5. First, this is how democracy works. We don’t expect that our leaders have our best interests at heart, so of course, elections and the need to pass them are the constraints to get elected leaders to listen to the interests of the voters.

        He thinks Democrats should humor voters who have an irrational fear of refugees.

        The obvious implication being reneging on any promises the moment the voters’ attention swings elsewhere. After all, they’re irrational. For me, this casual, routine dishonesty is your worse trait, Jim.

      6. At a time France is reeling from the mugging it got from at least three “refugees”, this blase attitude of yours, Jim, is just staggering.

        1. The left have no choice but to double down. They’re entirely responsible for these events, but admitting that would unravel The Narrative.

          If we’re not ‘all the same under the skin’, suddenly all their arguments collapse.

    2. “And the truth comes out….. that’s what his prescriptions are about right? Winning elections. ”

      Importing new voters that are openly hostile to groups Democrats hate would be good for Democrats at the ballot box. Much like Democrats support for colander spaghetti religions, neo-paganism, and Satanists isn’t about an affinity to these religions, their support of Islam isn’t about affinity for Islam but rather using these groups to attack people they don’t like, Christians for example but you also have to include people who are culturally free market capitalist Americans who believe in the ideals the country was founded on.

      They don’t support anything Islam teaches and they claim to hate all religions not just Christianity but the reality here is that defense of Islam and jihad is a political tactic by Democrats. One one hand it allows them to play the race card and on the other it allows them to import and inculcate a group they can use against their fellow Americans and its so easy because Democrats and people who live in Muslim countries already have the same views about the USA.

  2. There is a simple solution – locate all of the Syrian refugees in the DC metro area. After all, we’re assured they’re vetted*, so putting them in the national capital should be perfectly safe, right?

    *Bullsh@t

  4. Given its history of incompetence and ideology, concerns about this administration properly vetting refugees are totally legitimate.

    This administration has been vetting refugees for almost seven years, and I’m guessing that many or most of the career civil servants involved have been doing so for longer than that. None of the hundreds of thousands of refugees they’ve vetted have been charged with terrorism.

    2. In the other thread you wrote:

      “The hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees accepted since 9/11 — none of whom have committed terror attacks — are our “sworn enemies”?”

      And above you wrote:

      ” None of the hundreds of thousands of refugees they’ve vetted have been charged with terrorism.”

      Two words for you Jim:

      Tsarnaev Brothers.

      Let’s see………they got into the country by being accepted as…what?

      What?

      POLITICAL REFUGEES! They were being persecuted in their own country so they said. Didn’t stop them from going back there on vacations but I digress…..

      They were what religion?

      MUSLIMS!

      And they did…what?

      Fashioned 2 bombs and blew the arms and legs off of many bystanders at the Boston Marathon; hurt many more and killed 4 people including an 8 year old boy.

      And they were vetted by who?

      The US Government!

      So when you say it hasn’t happened Jim, you are either:

      Unbelievably ignorant

      Stupendously forgetful

      Or aware of these facts; won’t mention them because you are an Obama rumpswab. And you hope no one else remembers.

      In the other thread you replied:

      [Because it’s been demonstrated to us on a stack of 160 bodies.

      No, it hasn’t. None of the Paris attackers went through U.S. refugee screening.]

      “It” of course being the fact that terrorists get in posing as refugees. But this is simply one of your attempted diversions.

      Now I don’t know which it is (ignorance or rump swabbery) , but I don’t much care. You have demonstrated once and for all that you’re comments are simply not to be taken seriously .

    3. “None of the hundreds of thousands of refugees they’ve vetted have been charged with terrorism.”

      Charged, convicted jailed.

      1. Although the Obama Administration called it Domestic Terrorism, the Chattanooga shooter was Kuwaiti, born in Jordan, and likely contacted ISIS as recently as 2014 while visiting the Middle East. “But he was an American”, because he was given citizenship. Don’t know if political refugee, but the only irrational act was saying his actions was “homegrown” terrorism.

  5. So Jim thinks the Tsarnaev brothers were not claiming to be persecuted refugees. Well the facts show him to be wrong yet again:

    They may have initially got in on a tourist visa but then after a year they have to apply for asylum. They did as persecuted refugees.

    Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were refugees from brutal Chechen conflict

    “With their baseball hats and sauntering gaits, they appeared to friends and neighbors like ordinary American boys. But the Boston bombing suspects were refugees from another world — the blood, rubble and dirty wars of the Russian Caucasus.

    Anzor Tsarnaev and his wife arrived in the United States in early 2002 after gaining refu­gee status. Their two sons and two daughters followed a short time later with an aunt.”

    National Review:

    The bombers’ parents claimed refugee status at a time when their place of residence was Kazakhstan, where there are many ethnic Chechens and little in the way of persecution that would justify refugee status. In fact, Tsarnaev père apparently had little reason to fear persecution in Russia, either: He returned there to live, and his son Tamerlan spent an extended period of time with him there, with side trips to the Islamist hot spot of Chechnya. Tamerlan never became a U.S. citizen (his flagging by the Russian intelligence service as a likely Islamic radical prevented that), his parents had returned to Russia, and he himself was in and out of the country a great deal: not exactly a candidate for what our forebears used to quaintly describe as our national melting pot.

    Nice try.

  6. Seems the Mother Joneses and other Lefty rumpswabs tend to forget that while you can come here on a tourist visa, you can’t STAY here for years on a tourist visa. You then have to apply for permission to stay for another reason.

    You also can’t get welfare on a tourist visa.

    Many people – once the tourist visa runs out, apply to stay claiming political persecution.

    Like the Tsarnaevs

  7. Geneva (AFP) – The United Nations on Tuesday urged states not to “backtrack” on pledges made to host migrants and refugees, including from Syria, in the wake of the attacks in Paris.

    Well there’s a reason right there to shut the door.

  8. Full steam ahead here in Canuckistan. Turdeau isn’t worried that the 25000 refugees he intends to settle in Canada in the next month might cause any disruption at all.

  10. BTW, we shouldn’t allow ourselves to be distracted by the Lefty-Suicide group’s focus on “refugees”. Obama and the lefty-suiciders use “refugees” to pretend he/they believes in American values and to paint people with other views as cruel and awful.

    An old trick.

    The fact is that we should not even give out tourist visas to people like the Tsarnaev’s or Syrians or Libyans etc. Nor any other visa or method of entry into the US.

    Why?

    Because the Feds have proven that they are incapable of vetting. And by the way, not having infinite powers of vetting isn’t a crime; our power is not infinite. What is a crime is not laying those facts out before the public and saying that since we cannot, now, properly vet these people we will close the door until we can. Not only that, when congresscritters asked executive branch agencies for the vetting procedures, they were given some boilerplate garbage. No facts.

    I mean, we can’t even vet secret service agents.

    The Feds have proven they are incapable of recognizing good intel when they are handed it on a silver platter: The Russians warned us about the Tsarnaev attack. Out government ignored it.

    People were killed and maimed horribly.

    What is irrational is continuing with the assumption that the Feds know what they are doing. They thought they had it taped before the Boston Marathon Bombing; the French government thought they had it all under control before Charlie Hebdo…and then again before last Friday.

    Sensible people who understand all this and want the safety of American citizens to come first are not irrational: what is irrational is looking at the last month and thinking differently.

    Sensible people who want the doors shut also are not heartless and cruel. Send piles and piles of money to other ME nations and see to it that comfy refugee camps are built, for example. I bet many millions could be raised by private donations if the loudmouths who want to be slaughtered by terrorists on their own verandas would, instead, create charity organizations and see to it that all the money get to where it’s needed.

    American Citizens are the giving-est people in the world.

    Sensible people also know what the real solution is:

    destruction of ISIS/Al Qaeda.

    Which doesn’t necessarily mean US boots on the ground. Or large numbers of boots. But it does mean getting every weapon possible into the hands of the Kurds and Jordanians, for example, and forcing the Saudi’s (for example) to get out of their mercedes, pick up a rifle and go to work.

    There are plenty of solutions to this problem; none of them require inviting terrorists to infiltrate the US and kill us here.

    1. Indeed. There is no humanitarian reason to pick people up and ship them half way around the world. And if there really is, then why is pressure not put on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Pakistan, or even our newest trading partner Iran? These countries can take in refugees, and they would be closer to home when the war ended.

      But the shooter in Chattanooga could also vote Democrat, and that’s something, right?

  11. Unexpected!!!!

    Nearly SEVENTY are arrested in America over ISIS plots – and they include refugees who had been given safe haven but ‘turned to terror’

    “US authorities have charged at least 66 men and women with ISIS-related terror plots on American soil – including a handful of refugees, Daily Mail Online can reveal.

    The terror group has set its sights on Washington, D.C. as it vows to further infiltrate the West and ramp up its blood-soaked offensive.

    Presidents Obama insists says that ‘slamming the door’ on Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS would be a betrayal of American values.”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3322649/The-enemy-Nearly-SEVENTY-arrested-America-ISIS-plots-include-refugees-given-safe-haven-turned-terror.html#ixzz3rrhsN4lw
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  12. I like it!

    This should gain Cruz a few more points in the polls:

    “Mr. President, if you want to insult me, you can do it overseas, you can do it in Turkey, you can do it in foreign countries, but I would encourage you, Mr. President, come back and insult me to my face,” Cruz told reporters Wednesday morning, looking directly into the cameras. “Let’s have a debate on Syrian refugees right now. We can do it anywhere you want. I’d prefer it in the United States and not overseas where you’re making the insults. It’s easy to toss a cheap insult when no one can respond, but let’s have a debate.”

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/ted-cruz-obama-syrian-refugees-216018#ixzz3rrluyoXj

  13. Not only is filtering who you let in via religion smart….

    …it’s stipulated by law according to Andrew McCarthy:

    Under federal law, the executive branch is expressly required to take religion into account in determining who is granted asylum. Under the provision governing asylum (section 1158 of Title 8, U.S. Code), an alien applying for admission must establish that … religion [among other things] … was or will be at least one central reason for persecuting the applicant. Moreover, to qualify for asylum in the United States, the applicant must be a “refugee” as defined by federal law. That definition (set forth in Section 1101(a)(42)(A) of Title , U.S. Code) also requires the executive branch to take account of the alien’s religion: The term “refugee” means (A) any person who is outside any country of such person’s nationality … and who is unable or unwilling to return to … that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of … religion [among other things] …[.] The law requires a “religious test.” And the reason for that is obvious. Asylum law is not a reflection of the incumbent president’s personal (and rather eccentric) sense of compassion. Asylum is a discretionary national act of compassion that is directed, by law not whim, to address persecution. There is no right to emigrate to the United States.

    Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/427262/refugee-religious-test-shameful-and-not-american-except-federal-law-requires-it-andrew

  14. Jim’s accusations of irrationality reminds me of the old Soviet days when Party officials thought dissenters were “irrational” or “mentally ill.”

    I think this is a similar ploy used by the American left. Perhaps we all need re-education.

    And have you noticed how the left will always use the phrase, “We need to educate people.” As if they are the ones who are all wise and knowledgeable.

  17. Unexpected!!!!

    SIXTH SYRIAN with Fake Passport Captured in Honduras on Way to US

    Jim Hoft Nov 19th, 2015 6:00 am 45 Comments

    Five Syrians with stolen Greek passports tried to enter the United States from Honduras.

    EXCLUSIVE — CONFIRMED: 8 Syrians Caught at Texas Border in Laredo

    UPDATE: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that eight Syrians were taken into custody at the Laredo port of entry.

  18. Unexpectedly!!!!!

    Some attackers used refugee crisis to ‘slip into’ France: PM

    Paris (AFP) – Some of the suspects in the Paris attacks took advantage of Europe’s migrant crisis to “slip in” unnoticed, the French premier said Thursday, warning the EU needed to “take responsibility” over border controls.

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