How the ‘Interpreter’ Scam Brought 75,000 Iraqis and Afghans Refugees to America

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How could there be more Iraqi interpreters than there are American troops? In 2017, these ’employees’ brought 13,713 dependents with them for a total of 18,390 refugees. 70% of Iraqi SIVs were unemployed. 60% of SIV refugees were unemployed after three months and 94% were on food stamps. A number are tied to islamic terror activities. WTH are we doing?

The numbers are staggering. Why not use machine foreign language software that doesn’t shoot our soldiers in the back, rape women in Colorado Springs, demand food stamps, swamp social services in Virginia, or join ISIS.

How the ‘Interpreter’ Scam Brought 75,000 Iraqis and Afghans to America

How could there be more Iraqi interpreters than there are American troops?

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The latest battle over Special Immigrant Visas pitted Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior advisor, against the Pentagon. The military brass was lobbying for 6,000 special immigrant visas for Iraqis who worked for American forces in the country. These visas were once again billed as helping “interpreters”.

That’s a lot of interpreters considering that there were only 5,200 American troops in Iraq.

How could there be more Iraqi interpreters for American troops than there are troops?

The Special Immigrant Visa scam has been sold for over a decade using the same claim that it’s needed to save the lives of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who are risking death by helping American soldiers.

In one decade, the United States has handed out 75,250 of these visas to Iraqi and Afghan employees, and their dependents. Between 2007 and 2017, they represented 1 percent of all immigrant visas.

The truth is that the military brass has wrongly used the incentive of Special Immigrant Visas to recruit local personnel and cut costs by promising them resettlement in the United States. Considering the costs of resettling even the nicest Iraqi or Afghan families, it would have been cheaper to pay each of them a six-figure salary. But that would have come out of the defense budget. The SIV scam passes the buck to local cities and states, to ordinary taxpayers and communities who have to hire interpreters who speak Pashto to interact with the children of the interpreters who are swamping local school systems.

One Iraqi or Afghan employee brings a lot more dependents and expenses with him. In 2017, the 4,677 Iraqi and Afghan employees brought 13,713 dependents with them for a total of 18,390 refugees.

Those were the worst numbers since before Obama took office.

While conventional refugee numbers have been slashed, the number of Special Immigrant Visas for Iraqis and Afghans drastically shot up because the Pentagon was getting its way on immigration. Few of these visas were for actual interpreters. That number tends to be capped at 50 a year. Most of the SIV applicants coming in had to have only worked for a few years in often vaguely defined capacities.

Some were actual interpreters. Many more were cultural advisors and linguists.

All they have to do is claim that they received threats over their work for the US or the ISAF, the multinational force in Afghanistan, and they are resettled in the United States as refugees.

While the media has repeatedly accused President Trump of stopping interpreters from coming to this country even though they, allegedly, risked their lives, the number of SIV visas for Afghans and Iraqis shot up from 10,681 in 2014, to 14,383 in 2016, to 18,390 in 2017.

That’s when Stephen Miller tried to slam on the brakes.

The media complains that visa processing isn’t fast enough. And that the lives of SIV applicants are at risk every day they’re living in their own country. But bypassing vetting puts American lives at risk.

As a measure of how bad the vetting is, Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, the Emir of an Al Qaeda group in Fallujah, entered this country as a refugee and applied for disability. He then went to work as a military contractor on a California base, teaching soldiers deploying to Iraq about the local culture. That’s the typical sort of task that many SIV visas are provided for which require little more than English skills.

Was an Al Qaeda Emir employed by the US military in Iraq? Did Al-Nouri come here on an SIV visa? The answer is he probably did, but no one seems to be especially willing to ask or answer that question.

Bilal Abood came to the United States on an SIV visa. Like many SIV applicants, he had worked as a contract linguist in Iraq. Like most SIV applicants, he claimed to have faced threats because of his work.

Once in the United States, Abood began viewing ISIS beheading videos and tweeted, “I pledge obedience to the Caliphate Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.” That was the leader of ISIS.

“The United States is the enemy of Allah,” he had said.

Jasim Mohammed Hasin Ramadon and Ali Mohammed Hasan Al Juboori, Mustafa Sataar Al Feraji, Ali Mohammed Hasan Al Juboori, and Yasir Jabbar Jasim, 5 Iraqis who who came to America on SIV visas, took part in the rape of an American woman in Colorado Springs who was abused so badly that there was blood splattered on the wall. Her mistake was sympathizing with the poor hapless refugees.

That’s our mistake as a country.

Ramadon, like the other SIV applicants celebrated by the media, had an NCO lobby for him. He appeared on Oprah, was featured in a book, and became a celebrity. Then he was hit with a restraining order for choking and threatening to kill his girlfriend. His crimes ended with the brutal rape of an older woman.

But the SIV lobby doesn’t care about the woman he nearly killed. Or the threat to Americans.

District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee involved in controversial decisions, like inventing a right to taxpayer-funded abortions for illegal migrants, ruled that the Trump administration must immediately start processing visa applications for SIV migrants and bring them to America.

Meanwhile the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020 provided 4,000 more SIV slots for Afghans.

Shutting down the SIV pipeline has been painfully difficult because the refugee program has broad bipartisan support from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and from military brass.

In this case, it’s actually the bureaucracy that has saved American lives by slowing SIV visa processing.

The United States has spent years figuring out exactly how to throw in the towel in Afghanistan through some sort of meaningless deal with the Taliban, even as we continue passing out SIV visas to Afghan employees in a country we may be leaving at any time. And we are handing out SIV visas like candy to Iraqis even though we have a very limited military presence there that is not expected to last for long.

But facts have never stopped the SIV express from barreling through America at an incredible cost.

85% of SIV recipients have received refugee resettlement benefits. Over 17,000 have been dumped in California, over 10,000 in Texas, and over 7,000 in Virginia. In Virginia, that meant that over 800 Iraqi children and almost 2,000 Afghan children became part of the system. In Northern Virginia, SIV holders increased tenfold and doubled in just one year, putting a potential terrorist population close to the center of government, to top terror targets, including the headquarters of the CIA in Fairfax County.

Meanwhile a GAO report found that 60% of SIV refugees were unemployed after three months and 94% were on food stamps.

70% of Iraqi SIVs were unemployed.

In one single year, SIV refugees racked up $80 million in federal aid from two agencies alone. That doesn’t account for some federal refugee assistance programs that go on for as long as 5 years.

How many American soldiers could have been trained to speak Arabic or Pashto for that money?

As their number has grown, so has the monumental expense of subsidizing them. In 2008, SIV refugees accounted for only 1% of resettlement assistance. By 2017, SIV refugees made up a quarter of costs.

After 75,000 Iraqi and Afghan SIV recipients, maybe it’s time that we shut down the SIV scam, instead of expanding it, as politicians from both parties and Pentagon brass, keep insisting that we must do.

We currently have 14,000 troops in Afghanistan and over 55,000 Afghans here through the SIV program. There are 5,200 American military personnel in Iraq and over 20,000 Iraqis through the SIV program in America. We’ve resettled enough “interpreters” to fill Kalamazoo, Wilmington, or Boca Raton.

America is all “interpreted” out.

The US Army began deploying the Machine Foreign Language Translation System (MFLTS) in 2011. Millions of dollars have been signed in contracts for MFLTS systems that can provide automatic translations of Arabic, Pashto, Urdu, and many other languages. The system was deployed in 2017.

MFLTS is no doubt inferior to living translators. But software doesn’t shoot our soldiers in the back, rape women in Colorado Springs, demand food stamps, swamp social services in Virginia, or join ISIS.

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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

The swamp is DEEP and WIDE…. Round fake refugees and fake asylum seekers up for LYING, remove their VISAS and send the back – the entire family. This is ridiculous.

elchapo
elchapo
4 years ago

most patriots dont quite fathom as to how compromised the entire system is both at the federal level and the state level … think about this – now it is completely ok for most media companies [enemedia] to tout the notion that a president of the USA should be removed from office because he used his 1st amendment right to vent on a topic – then to the astonishment of the naive – but to no surprise to the keen observer – even the lame attorney general appointed by trump to allegedly clean the “swamp” – joined the open criticism of the president claiming his use of his 1st amendment rights impeded him from doing his fucking job …

the tree of liberty [now reduced to a mere bush] must be watered with the blood of many many many tyrants … sadly due to the lefts chokehold of western nations and western pop culture only self destructive behaviour is ok

cylde
cylde
4 years ago

the government has language schools that can teach people to speak any language and could pay them extra for extra skills and give them a week of annual refresher courses to keep them current. There are military at every embassy that could be trained as well. Natives are always security risks of high order.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  cylde

Some translators are needed but certainly not this quanity.
There are certain nuances that you can’t capture in that scenario.

Colloquial expressions and local nuances will be missed. For example, someone I know well, was taking a final exam at college. He was bone tired. During the exam he asked if anyone had a “rubber” he could borrow. Naturally the class snickered and laughed. Being tired he slipped back into his native verbage. In the UK, a “rubber” also means an eraser.

I still think asking for a torch is amusing when a British person is really asking for a flashlight. I picture something like this for a torch.

http://sustainabletop100.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Comrie-Flambeaux-1.jpg

cylde
cylde
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

you obviously have never attended our government language schools yet feel qualified to dismiss them and know how many translators we need. Thanks Carnak.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  cylde

Some translators are needed but certainly not this quanity.
There are certain nuances that you can’t capture in that scenario.

Colloquial expressions and local nuances will be missed. For example, someone I know well, was taking a final exam at college. He was bone tired. During the exam he asked if anyone had a “rubber” he could borrow. Naturally the class snickered and laughed. Being tired he slipped back into his native verbage. In the UK, a “rubber” also means an eraser.

I still think asking for a torch is amusing when a British person is really asking for a flashlight. I picture something like this for a torch.

http://sustainabletop100.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Comrie-Flambeaux-1.jpg

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago
Reply to  cylde

Thought the military had the same thing –

Diskusted
Diskusted
4 years ago

I blame 9-11….Neo con Bushes (RINO’s)…Muzzlim 0bam0, DimoNazis,& traitor-americanism from the commie left.

elchapo
elchapo
4 years ago
Reply to  Diskusted

if you want to know who to blame for 9.11 its bush sr who told all cia officers to stop relying on Israeli intelligence for middle eastern threats etc… kkklinton expanded that and bush jr kinda farted around – obama gave billions and a path for the ayatollahs to a nuke … now trump is pending … what they did to him regarding impeachment the left in israel is doing to bibi the media + supreme court + mendleshit and his minions are trying to legally frame [with no evidence] netanyahu for hanging out with a news reporter who wrote a positive article about netanyahus policies prior to meeting them … insane

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

ENEMY INSIDE

Rick Gouveia
Rick Gouveia
4 years ago

Cultural enrichment program includes goat humping; leftists okay sexual abuse for the sake of cultural enrichment.

AZ gal
AZ gal
4 years ago

I knew a woman who said she had a Muslum boyfriend who was one of those former interpreters. When she found out he was married, she broke up with him, then he raped her.

Dennis A Dragomir
Dennis A Dragomir
4 years ago
Reply to  AZ gal

he would have raped her anyway

AZ gal
AZ gal
4 years ago

Of course. Plus she felt she couldn’t file charges because he had been her boyfriend.
Never date a Muslum!

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
4 years ago
Reply to  AZ gal

She should have told the wife.

Dennis A Dragomir
Dennis A Dragomir
4 years ago

they lied when Christians applied. duuuuhhhh!comment image Obama hand picked them for a reason

Dennis A Dragomir
Dennis A Dragomir
4 years ago

We ought to deport every single one he brought, and their kids

durabo
durabo
4 years ago

And they all (illegally) vote for MarxiCrats. Gee – THANKS, Obama!

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

This might be the Taliban “Peace Plan.” Give them all visas and bring them to the USA.

Porter G. Stone
Porter G. Stone
4 years ago

These “Interpreters” & the Democrats have some in common: If you can’t reach your goal honestly and legally, USE LIES !

disqus_dDOVNnCOZH
disqus_dDOVNnCOZH
4 years ago

I keep saying everybody in government, top to bottom, is responsible for keeping the swamp intact and that includes judges and congresspeople as well, from both parties. Unless people rise up and send a clear signal to everybody in government to do the right thing or else noting is going to change. Remember, half of our population is for keeping the swamp, so the rest of the population has to stand up for their rights and that means we have to stop giving a damn to all those who disagree with us and don’t be ashamed to be called racist, bigots and heartless. It is either our children or theirs. Take a pick. One way to do is to not elect those to office who don’t want to work for and with us. Exposing judges who make wrong decisions and keep demanding their resignation till they do so.

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago

What do you bet there was some horseshit ” relief ” agency raking in a fortune to bring them here –

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
4 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

With a ‘religious’ name.

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago
Reply to  mjazzguitar

Would’nt doubt that a bit either

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
4 years ago

WE SHOULD GET REAL AND THOSE AFGHANS/IRAQIS WHO ARE REALLY OUR FRIENDS SHOULD BE GIVEN WEAPONS AND TURNED INTO MERCENARY ARMIES THAT CAN SUSTAIN THEMSELVES TO SUPPORT U.S. INTERESTS OVER THERE! IT WOULD PROBABLY BE CHEAPER WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE SOCIAL COSTS OF ISLAMIC IMMIGRATION! THERE NEEDS TO BE A LIMIT TO JIHAD CREEP AKA ISLAMIC IMMIGRATION INTO THE USA AND NON-ISLAMIC NATIONS!
DIALOGUING MORE WITH RUSSIA WHICH HAS FOUGHT THE JIHADIS IN SYRIA IS A GOOD IDEA TOO! THERE WILL NEVER BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST BUT WE HAVE OUR INTERESTS TOO! ALSO, ISLAMICS WHO COME OVER WITH SPECIAL VISAS SHOULD BE INFORMED THAT THEY WILL BE HELD TO SPECIAL PENALTIES FOR THEIR DISBEHAVIOR IN CAPITAL CRIMES MEANING DEATH PENALTY APPLICATIONS! MIGHT DISCOURAGE SOME OF THEM FROM COMING HERE TOO!

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
4 years ago

President Trump put a cap on “refugees” so the governors asked for more.
Someone in the media should go to these homeless encampments and ask the people there how they feel about their politicians bringing in people from halfway around the world to support, while they sleep outside.
How about we bus the homeless to the places where the refugees are just about to enter their new homes?

Ryan
Ryan
3 years ago

wow, nobody cared to point out how inaccurate this article was to begin with. Only 5,200 American soldiers in Afghanistan in January of this year, not overall. 235,000 soldiers were involved in the war in Iraq. A lot of interpreters only served for a part of that time. They now face insurgents who see them as traitors. If America turns its back on its friends and allies, they won’t be there to help next time. Ask Matt Zeller, just one of at least hundreds of soldiers that were saved by these interpreters. Want to save money? Stop going to war.

Ryan
Ryan
3 years ago
Reply to  Ryan

sorry, *5,200 in Iraq, not Afghanistan*

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