Obama Administration Stopped Processing Iraq Refugee Requests For 6 Months In 2011

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Obama has been letting our enemies — the same people we fought against in Iraq — into this country. When this was discovered, there was a six-month pause in processing Iraq refugee requests. “Obama has also refused to explain how his administration’s security-related pause on processing Iraq refugee requests in 2011 did not ‘betray our deepest values.’”

President Obama Will Veto House Bill to Increase Refugee Screenings.

Yes, and also, during that six-month pause, Muslims were killing Christians in Iraq. How many Christians were turned away and sent back to certain death during that period while our refugee “system” was being “revamped”?

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“The Obama Administration Stopped Processing Iraq Refugee Requests For 6 Months In 2011,” by Sean Davis, The Federalist, November 18, 2015:

Although the Obama administration currently refuses to temporarily pause its Syrian refugee resettlement program in the United States, the State Department in 2011 stopped processing Iraq refugee requests for six months after the Federal Bureau of Investigation uncovered evidence that several dozen terrorists from Iraq had infiltrated the United States via the refugee program.

After two terrorists were discovered in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 2009, the FBI began reviewing reams of evidence taken from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that had been used against American troops in Iraq. Federal investigators then tried to match fingerprints from those bombs to the fingerprints of individuals who had recently entered the United States as refugees:

An intelligence tip initially led the FBI to Waad Ramadan Alwan, 32, in 2009. The Iraqi had claimed to be a refugee who faced persecution back home — a story that shattered when the FBI found his fingerprints on a cordless phone base that U.S. soldiers dug up in a gravel pile south of Bayji, Iraq on Sept. 1, 2005. The phone base had been wired to unexploded bombs buried in a nearby road.

An ABC News investigation of the flawed U.S. refugee screening system, which was overhauled two years ago, showed that Alwan was mistakenly allowed into the U.S. and resettled in the leafy southern town of Bowling Green, Kentucky, a city of 60,000 which is home to Western Kentucky University and near the Army’s Fort Knox and Fort Campbell. Alwan and another Iraqi refugee, Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 26, were resettled in Bowling Green even though both had been detained during the war by Iraqi authorities, according to federal prosecutors.

The terrorists were not taken into custody until 2011. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. State Department stopped processing refugee requests from Iraqis for six months in order to review and revamp security screening procedures:

As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets. One Iraqi who had aided American troops was assassinated before his refugee application could be processed, because of the immigration delays, two U.S. officials said. In 2011, fewer than 10,000 Iraqis were resettled as refugees in the U.S., half the number from the year before, State Department statistics show.

According to a 2013 report from ABC News, at least one of the Kentucky terrorists passed background and fingerprint checks conducted by the Department of Homeland Security prior to being allowed to enter the United States. Without the fingerprint evidence taken from roadside bombs, which one federal forensic scientist referred to as “a needle in the haystack,” it is unlikely that the two terrorists would ever have been identified and apprehended.

“How did a person who we detained in Iraq — linked to an IED attack, we had his fingerprints in our government system — how did he walk into America in 2009?” asked one former Army general who previously oversaw the U.S. military’s anti-IED efforts….

Obama has also refused to explain how his administration’s security-related pause on processing Iraq refugee requests in 2011 did not “betray our deepest values.”

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SCREW SOCIALISM
SCREW SOCIALISM
8 years ago

This the text of the Oath of Office that Obama vowed to uphold at his inauguration.

““I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the
Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my
ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United
States.”

Obama needs to be impeached for his incompetence in not doing the job he vowed to do.

maturner
maturner
8 years ago

Yeah he needs to be impeached now. One more year of him is too much.

Dr. Doomsday
Dr. Doomsday
8 years ago
Reply to  maturner

I concur. Long overdue. Too many impeachable offenses already!

Always On Watch
Always On Watch
8 years ago

Executive order has to be in the works!

notislam
notislam
8 years ago

As the Egyptians removed Morisi from office we need to do the same with this trojan horse of the ARAB–ISLAM 0 NAZIS- isn’t there enough evidence?
Of course —so because they won’t do it is they are afraid !

Ben
Ben
8 years ago

Refujihadis

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
8 years ago

Bam Bam decoded: Islamist bombers good. Christians bad. … simple as that.

Don Grantham
Don Grantham
8 years ago

I keep reading the question “Why can’t 1.6 billion Muslims control 30,000 radicals?”
Here is my question:
“How is it that over 300 million Americans are not clamoring for the impeachment of Obama, when he is obviously determined to follow his own destructive agenda regardless of the wishes of the people?”
31 states say “No more Syrians”. Obama says,” Too bad. It’s un-American.”
Obama threatens to veto House GOP bill on Syrian refugees.
Yeah, Obama isn’t his real name.
It’s Richard Potato… Dick Tater.
Just. One. Guy.

mdy616
mdy616
8 years ago

“President Obama Will Veto House Bill to Increase Refugee Screenings.” –

Does this mean the RINOs will not even try to pass the bill then? I am sick and tired of the “Republicans” in Congress backing down by the threat “Obama will veto it.” SO WHAT?? LET HIM VETO IT SO WHEN WE ARE ATTACKED IT IS ALL ON HIS HEAD…NO DOUBTS!

This is why people are flocking to Trump; he is promising to DO SOMETHING!! Our current spineless bunch won’t even try. Send hundreds of bills to Obama and let him veto every one of them to show it is he that is the one not willing to do anything!!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
8 years ago

The Americans are stuck with a viper in their bosom for a year or so longer, but when given the chance, hopefully they will grab the snake by the tail, twirl it around then bash its head on a rock.

Robert Bayer
Robert Bayer
8 years ago

Obama stopped the immigration at that point in order to allow ISIS to slaughter more Christians and other non-Muslims .. Pure Evil .. once again.

Robert Bayer
Robert Bayer
8 years ago

Our Dear Leader Obama in summary …
1. Gave over a billion dollars of American weapons to militants who became ISIS.

2. Creates a clear path for Iran to create nukes.

3. Pretends to attack ISIS while continuing to supply them with weapons under the guise of fighing Assad.

4. Set open borders and through a welcoming policty to illegals, has given a mass illegal immigration that brought in thousands of ISIS terrorists.

5. Transporting at taxpayer expense tens of thousands of “refugees” to the USA that includes thousands of terrorists or pro-ISIS imans.

EJO
EJO
8 years ago

House Ignores Obama’s Veto Threat, Passes Bill to Strengthen Screening Against Syrian and Iraqi Refugees With Veto-Proof Majority

Nov. 19, 2015 2:06pm Jason Howerton

he U.S. House approved a GOP bill to strengthen the vetting process of Syrian and Iraqi refugees on Thursday, ignoring a veto threat from President Barack Obama.

The bill was reportedly passed 289-137, giving the legislation the two-thirds majority required to override a veto. A total of 47 Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the “veto-proof” bill.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/11/19/house-ignores-obamas-veto-threat-passes-bill-to-strengthen-barriers-against-syrian-and-iraqi-refugees-with-veto-proof-majority/

vonrock
vonrock
8 years ago

Obama doesn’t have any deep values. I’m counting on Fellow Americans.

burrt
burrt
7 years ago

Your links are either dead or repetitive. This story seems to have no legs.

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